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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- ATT's intelligent security via accurate mobile device location sensing
- Alive Wellness and Fitness Group's method and apparatus for controlling dew point in an interior space
- Capital One's augmented reality vehicle search assistance
- HG Partners' continuous-wave radar system for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals in saltwater environments
- Santa Clara Holdings' system and method for facial recognition authentication for mask wearers
- Toyota's dynamic scene reconstruction using neural radiance field technology
- Verily Life Sciences' surgery tool segmentation with robot kinematics
- Verizon's mobile edge network cryptographic key delivery using quantum cryptography
Patented: Amida Technology Solutions’ Hardware Trojan Security System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 5, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 28 with a total of 152 patents granted.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 14 with a total of 154 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 7 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 5, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 31 with a total of 163 patents granted.
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Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. has received a newly granted patent for an "Emotion-Aware Smart Refrigerator," invented by Ercan M. Dede and Muhamed K. Farooq. The patent describes a futuristic fridge that uses sensors to measure interest in food items—like tracking reactions to what's inside—and combines that with health goals, dietary needs, and preferences to suggest what to eat and how much. [Images: USPTO Patent #12167906, clockwise from top left: Fig. 4, Fig. 3A, Fig. 1A, Fig. 1B]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 7-Eleven's coffee machine with robotic arms and a lift traveling between platform levels
- Toyota's LiDAR reflective fabric
- SmartDrive Systems' systems for generating data describing physical surroundings of a vehicle
- Linear Labs' method for controlling high-torque, high-speed electric motors
- RewardStyle's system for ingesting and presenting a video with associated linked products and metadata as a unified actionable shopping experience
- USAA's gaming to improve route guidance
- Verily Life Sciences' eye-mounted device for therapeutic agent release
- AT&T's procedures for quantum secure ecosystems
- Oxefit's strength training apparatus with multi-cable force production
- Venturis Therapeutics' systems for angiogenic treatment in wound healing
- Lennox Industries' control systems for preventing evaporator coil freeze
- Capital One's methods for providing authenticated one-click access to a customized user interaction-specific web page
- SmartDots' automated gate for robotic mowers
- Siemens Industry Software's training of machine learning-based inverse lithography technology for mask synthesis with synthetic pattern generation
- Ceco Environmental's self-cleaning filter
Patented: Toyota’s Emotion-Aware Smart Refrigerator and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jan 22, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 17 with a total of 95 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 11, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 19, with a total of 107 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 4, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 12, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 20, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 5, with a total of 85 patents granted.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- • ADT's customer experience diagnostics in premises monitoring systems
- • AT&T's framework for a 6G ubiquitous access network
- • Bank of America's geolocation security using biometric analysis
- • Capital One's automated vehicle trade-in with limited human interaction
- • Electrolux's system for integrated device connectivity and agile device control for dynamic object tracking and management
- • Forescout Technologies' AI-driven classifier using a defined taxonomy framework
- • Lasso Technologies' through-the-wall tank level measurement with telemetry and millimeter wave radar
- • McWane's remote monitoring of water distribution system
- • Micron's cloud-service on-boarding without prior customization of endpoints
- • Oracle's future transaction processing
- • Palantir Technologies' fault-tolerant and highly available configuration of distributed services
- • Surgisil's lip implant
Patented: Alcon’s Voice‑Controlled Surgical System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Sep 11, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 27, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 5, 2024
Aperture said NOVUM's experts have been engaged in more than 200 major IP litigation and complex business litigation matters, as well as advising clients in patent acquisitions/dispositions, licensing, valuation, and/or financing arrangements.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 10, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 18, 2024. 102 patents granted include: Google's selecting and presenting representative frames for video previews, Halliburton Energy Services' downhole chemical reactor and gas generator with passive or active control, Intel Corporation's technologies for managing interoperable high definition maps for autonomous vehicles, Pieces Technologies' creating multiple prioritized clinical summaries using artificial intelligence, Sandisk Technologies' adaptive semi-circle select gate bias, and Texas Instruments' integrated current sensor with magnetic flux concentrators.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 19, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 4, 2024. 153 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's feedback and training for a machine learning algorithm configured to determine customer purchases during a shopping session at a physical store, Apple's enhanced RACH (random access channel) design for 5G CIoT (cellular internet of things), ATT Intellectual Property I's facilitation of voice over new radio for 5G or other next generation network, Avohdah's automated gesture identification using neural networks, Bank of America's dynamic unauthorized activity detection, and more.
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One of Gemma Robotics' robots applies makeup in under three minutes, the startup says. [Photo: Gemma Robotics]
Patented: Gemma Robotics’ Automated Makeup Application and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 29, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 14, 2024. 114 patents granted include: Amazon Technologies' speech signal bandwidth extension using cascaded neural networks, Bank of America's hash-based transaction tagging, Bear Robotics' non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a serving robot, IBM's inline detection and prevention of adversarial attacks, Texas Instruments' streaming engine with short cut start instructions, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's tow hitch connector cover system, and Walmart Apollo's systems, and methods for automatically annotating images.
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by Sandra Engelland |
May 22, 2024
The USPTO anticipates three upcoming vacancies for each committee. Selected members will serve a three-year term beginning Dec. 1, 2024, and can participate in the committees remotely. Nominations must be submitted online on or before July 5.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 22, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 7, 2024. 116 patents granted include: AmplifAI Solutions' use of multiple AI engines to determine a next best action for professional development of employees, ATT's configuring a federated blockchain network, Charles Machine Works' virtual path guidance system, Dell Products' cloud provisioning readiness verification, Discourse.AI's computer-based interlocutor understanding using classifying conversation segments, Futurewei Technologies' primary preview region and gaze-based driver distraction detection, Hewlett Packard's automatic notifications for expired subscriptions, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
May 17, 2024
Rhiannon D’Agostin and Adam Rehm have joined Norton Rose Fulbright as partners, and counsel Zack Cleary has joined the global law firm's IP practice as well.
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