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![Plano-based inventor Swaminathan Balasubramanian has received a newly granted patent for an "Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot." The patent describes a robot with a non-inverted pendulum body and articulated leg system designed to move like a humanoid, carry heavy loads, and minimize joint strain using a self-compensating mass structure. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12263899, left to right: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 4; DI Studio background]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Patent-12263899-Utility-robot-patent-fig1-2-4-940x436.jpg)
Plano-based inventor Swaminathan Balasubramanian has received a newly granted patent for an "Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot." The patent describes a robot with a non-inverted pendulum body and articulated leg system designed to move like a humanoid, carry heavy loads, and minimize joint strain using a self-compensating mass structure. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12263899, left to right: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 4; DI Studio background]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AI Technologies' controlling operation of machine tools using combinatorial optimization problem solvers
- Amazon's foldable containers with improved mobility
- The University of Texas System's treatment of depression using machine learning
- Coinbase's systems and methods for facilitating secure authentication when conducting blockchain operations using cryptography-based, storage applications
- DeepNorth's self-checkout verification systems and methods
- Global Tel*Link's mobile correctional facility robots
- Intuit's multiple input machine learning framework for anomaly detection
- Island Technology's enforcement of enterprise browser use
- Micro-Gaming Ventures' location-based wagering via remote devices
- SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions' combination RFID/EAS tags and methods of manufacture
- Walmart's long term scheduling of task resources at a plurality of retail stores
- Zoom's identification of client device location during emergency
Patented: ‘Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 7, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 1 with a total of 111 patents granted.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 19, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 11 with a total of 122 patents granted.
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Mar 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 4 with a total of 167 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 18, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 26, with a total of 95 patents granted.
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3M Innovative Properties Company has been granted U.S. patent #12097498 for a nanopatterned film technology invented by McKInney's Caleb T. Nelson. This flexible film has structured surfaces with specialized layers that prevent biofouling and bind with biochemical analytes, making it highly suitable for diagnostic and environmental applications. [Image: Source, U.S. Patent 12097498 Fig. 12; DI Studio ]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Aldeyra Therapeutics' compositions and methods for the treatment of macular degeneration
- Avrio Genetics' transdermal patch with separated regions for delivery of immunomodulators
- Blue Yonder Group's system and method of providing a supply chain digital hub
- Dell Products' systems and methods to orchestrate trusted enrollment
- Digit7 India's device for holding and monitoring weight of product(s) in an inventory management system
- Fluor Technologies' heavy hydrocarbon and BTEX removal from pipeline gas to LNG liquefaction
- Google's systems and methods for identifying a set of characters in a media file
- Omnissa's remotely restricting client devices
- Rutgers and University of Pennsylvania's apparatus and methods for monitoring of biomarkers in blood
- SC Autosports' go kart
- SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for querying fleet information stored in a distributed data center
- Textron Innovations' fuel cells configured to deliver bi-polar high voltage DC power
- University of Texas System's sequential treatment of cancers using 6-thio-dG, checkpoint inhibitors and radiation therapy
- Walmart Apollo's systems and methods to identify products from verbal utterances
- Zengine's machine learning system for asymmetrical matching of caregivers and care receivers
Patented: 3M Innovative Properties’ Nanopatterned Films and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 9, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 17, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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Oct 2, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 24, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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May 1, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 9, 2024. 124 patents granted include: A. O. Smith Water Treatment (North America)’s liquid filtration systems, components, and methods, Avodah’s real-time gesture recognition method and apparatus, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s geographic population health information system, and Lennox Industries’ component tracking in automated manufacturing using digital fingerprints.
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Feb 21, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 30. 164 patents granted include: World’s Enterprises’ 2D detections and tracking, UNTHSC’s personalized medicine approach for treating cognitive loss, Toyota’s optical communication system for management of vehicle batteries, Overhead Door’s sliding barrier tracking system, 7-Eleven’s item identification using digital image processing, and more.
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Patented: USAA’s Automatic Problem Detection From Sounds and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jan 17, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 19, 2023. 101 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's detecting and identifying misplaced items using a sensor array, AiTax Corporation's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and artificial intelligence, Bollinger Industries' portable power station, Discourse.AI's estimation of interlocutor intents and goals in turn-based electronic conversational flow, and Innomist's multi-mode fluid nozzles.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 10, 2023
Patents granted this week include: Bank of America's travel identity tokening, Floway Innovations' adaptive fluid switches for autonomous flow control, Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co.'s hybrid power devices, Intuit's automated field-mapping of account names for form population, Lennox Industries's method for identifying causes of HVAC system faults, Nice Ltd.'s methods for retrieving and presenting information using augmented reality, Norton Lifelock's protecting from automatic reconnection with Wi-Fi access points having bad reputations, Raytheon's image turbulence correction of moving targets, Skyhigh Security's security service for an unmanaged device, Unification Technologies' methods for identifying storage resources that are not in use, and USAA's call routing using artificial intelligence.
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Mar 22, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, AT&T's emotion-based authentication service, Cancer Diagnostics Research Innovation's method for diagnosing and treating esophageal cancer, Citicorp Credit Services' multifactor authentication systems, Digital Tonic's augmented reality platform, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' microfluidic testing system for mobile veterinary applications, Sixgill's method of counting livestock, StaCyc's bike frame having a drive module enclosure, Textron Innovations' illuminated rope as an aircraft emergency egress aid, Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America's artificial muscles having vacuum coupled electrode insulators, Zixcorp Systems' delivery of an electronic message using a machine learning policy, and more.
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Mar 7, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Adaptive 3D and UT Systems' vat resin for 3D stereolithography printing, American Airlines' mobile ground equipment location monitoring, Brightplus Ventures's image enhanced liquid crystal display devices, CBN Nano Technologies' mechanosynthesis, Halo Microelectronics Co.'s wireless charging transmitter system , IBM's historical augmentation of electronic maps, Mirelz's real-time virtual try-on item modeling, Neurolens' measuring binocular alignment, RealPages' interaction-driven AI system and uses for same, including travel or real estate related contexts, Toyota's inflatable drone with shape memory alloy wires, and more.
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Left: U.S. Patent No. 11,298,221 (Three-lens intraocular lens system) was assigned to Alcon Inc.; Right: U.S. Patent No. 11,303,009 (Packages for advanced antenna systems) was assigned to Qorvo US, Inc.
Dallas Invents: 124 Patents Granted for Week of April 12
by Quincy Preston | May 10, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's three-lens intraocular lens system, Berg's treatment of cancer by continuous infusion of coenzyme Q10, BLH Ecology Concepts' process to produce nanoparticles, CubicPV's perovskite material processing, IBM's prototype creation based on analytics and 3D printing, Lintec of America's manufacturing of artificial muscle actuators, QORVO's packages for advanced antenna systems, and USAA's autonomous vehicle control system.
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