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Intellectual Property
Plano-based NTT DATA has received a newly granted patent for a system that deploys bots to handle complex, multi-step digital transactions. Invented by a team based in North Texas and India, the technology coordinates bots across different workflows using a central management system to automate processes from start to finish. [Composite illustration: USPTO Patent #12332633, Fig. 3A; DI Studio]
Patented: NTT DATA Services’ Dynamic Optimization of Bot Schedules and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 23, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of June 17 with a total of 147 patents granted.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 9, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of June 3 with a total of 132 patents granted.
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Jul 2, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 27 with a total of 168 patents granted.
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Jun 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 13 with a total of 175 patents granted.
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A newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" has been awarded to inventors Dallas-based Jianhui Wang and Ahmad Fayez Taha, Shen Wang (both based in San Antonio). Assigned to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Southern Methodist University, the patent outlines a system that enables distributed energy resources to be traded peer-to-peer across a power network, using forecasts and optimal power flow to schedule delivery. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12278491, Fig. 1; background by Nadya So/iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AT&T's facilitation of dynamic edge computations for 6G or other next generation network
- CareView Communications' smart monitoring safety and quality of life system using sensors
- Coinbase's systems for generating secure, encrypted communications using multi-party computations in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications
- Hera Health Solutions' bioerodible drug delivery implants
- HG Partners' continuous-wave radar system for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals in saltwater environments
- o9 Solutions' hierarchical tournament-based machine learning predictions
- Skyhigh Security's systems, methods, and media for monitoring cloud configuration settings
- Tenfold Technologies' anti-pathogen composition
- Toyota's lithium metal nitrides as lithium super-ionic conductors
- Verily Life Sciences' triggering virtual clinical exams
Patented: UT System, SMU Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 21, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 15 with a total of 84 patents granted.
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Patented: Apple’s Dynamic Network Hardware Activation System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 14, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 8 with a total of 132 patents granted.
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Apr 16, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 11 with a total of 97 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 26, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 18 with a total of 149 patents granted.
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McWane, Inc. has received a newly granted patent for "Remote Monitoring of Water Distribution System," invented by Carrollton-based Brian Morrow and Colleyville-based Charles Kitowski. The patent describes a system that uses sensors on a fire hydrant to measure water characteristics and transmit data remotely over a network. [Image sources: USPTO Patent #12196736, istock background]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 7-Eleven's hand detection trigger for item identification
- Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' data labeling system and method operative with patient and clinician controller devices disposed in a remote care architecture
- American Heart Association's methods for predicting post-surgical cardiovascular events
- Bank of America's multi-computer system for performing vulnerability analysis and alert generation
- Catenate's personality analysis for selection of courses, colleges, and/or careers
- Docusign's blockchain-based network transitioned by a legal contract
- Frontier Communications' augmented reality environment for providing instructions for repairing a PON device
- Highway App's secured platform for managing transportation logistics
- Intellective AI's cognitive information security using a behavior recognition system
- KoiReader Technologies' yard mapping and asset tracking system
- Musarubra's system for detecting cyberattacks impersonating legitimate sources
- NCH's detecting biofilm growth in water systems
- Summer Institute of Linguistics' multilingual dialogue interactions using dynamic automatic speech recognition and processing
Patented: McWane’s Remote Monitoring of Water Distribution and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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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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Jan 29, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 24 with a total of 133 patents granted.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Aerus' photocatalytic oxidation device for treatment of air
- AiCare's method and apparatus providing an ongoing and real time indicator for survival and major medical events
- AITAX's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and artificial intelligence
- Ascension Intellectual Properties' media echoing and social networking device and method
- Bio-Rad Laboratories' system and method for conducting virtual crossover studies in clinical diagnostic processes
- Dell Products' intelligent estimation of onboarding times for managed services
- FPT USA's neural network systems for source code summarization
- Island Technology's enabling web browser extensions to perform asynchronous blocking operations
- Linear Labs' system for an electrical motor with coil assemblies and external radial magnetic elements
- McKesson's apparatuses and systems for the automated retrieval and transport of articles
- VenaResources' adaptive RFID inventory system
- Wingstop Restaurants' load balancing network for dynamically adapting and communicating data
Patented: IBM’s Benchmarking and Prediction of Cloud System Performance, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 30, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 15, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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