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Dallas Invents: 136 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 25

by | Mar 4, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's intraocular lens injector, Advanced Cooling Therapy's methods for core body temperature management, Curio's RFID disruption device, RealPage's system for refining cognitive insights, The Secant Group's hyperthermia targeting for cancer therapy, The Snoring Center's uvula excision device, Abbott Laboratories' diagnostic analyzer, and Toyota's transportation support for users needing mobility assistance.
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Dallas Invents: 138 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 18
by | Feb 26, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: HS Labs' water detection assembly, Bank of America's blockchain-based unexpected data detection, Frito-Lay's potato cultivar, Toyota's vehicle seat assembly for physical exercise, ZixCorp's secure transmission system with upgraded encryption strength, and unassigned underwater wings for providing lift to boats.
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Dallas Invents: 117 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 11
by | Feb 19, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AiBUY's dynamic binding of supplemental content to video, Samsung's method for 360-degree video navigation, Daifuku Co.'s automatic tire loader/unloader, DFB's treatment of skin malignancies using nanoparticles of taxanes, and Toyota's assessment of human driving performance using autonomous vehicles.
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Dallas Aerospace Startup FusionFlight Takes Off With Fully Autonomous Drone
by | Feb 18, 2020
FusionFlight, which received a $50,000 seed investment in 2016, has built and tested "the world's smallest and most powerful jet-powered drone with vertical take-off and landing capabilities."
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 28

by | Feb 5, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining the correct pronunciation of dictated words, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Fujitsu Limited's efficient message forwarding for distributed resource orchestration, Garrity Power Services' wireless headset, Lynntech's undersea vehicle and method for operating a reactor, Plano Molding's flexible wildlife feeder and closure, SecurityProfiling's real-time vulnerability monitoring, and Texas Instrument's crosstalk calibration for multi-channel systems.
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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 21
by | Jan 29, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's narrow band awareness for in-device coexistence, Capital One's ground plane detection for placement of AR objects, CareView Communications' method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Dell's time-based local authentication in an information handling system utilizing asymmetric cryptography, Genband's denial-of-service protection for IP telephony systems, Texas Instruments' data encoder for power line communications, and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' apparatus for picking products.
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Trend Micro Takes on ‘Patent Trolls’ Through LOT Network
by | Jan 24, 2020
Trend Micro is joining Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft in the fight against patent assertion entities, often referred to as "patent trolls," through the LOT Network.
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Dallas Invents: 109 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 14
by | Jan 22, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's vehicle data sharing with interested parties. Dolby Laboratories Licensing's high contrast discrete input prism for image projectors, Doskocil Manufacturing's destruction-resistant pet toys, Mobile Equity's mobile payment station system and method, Motive Drilling Technologies' automated slide drilling, rewardStyle's location-based dynamic redirection of advertiser affiliate links for online advertising, and Texas Instruments' ultrasound color doppler imaging.
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Dallas Invents: 130 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 31

by | Jan 8, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Animal Experts' training tool, Amazon's audio signal processing for motion detection, Avodah Labs' real-time gesture recognition method and apparatus, Baylor Research Institute's methods for diagnosing or detecting colorectal cancer metastasis, Frito Lay's fried food product with reduced oil content, Solera Holdings' vehicle smart mirror system with heads-up display, and USAA's blockchain-based transaction management.
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 3
by | Dec 11, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Futurewei's motion-based music recommendation for mobile devices, Golf Tailor's arm positioning aid for golf swing training, Harman Professional's gesture-based control application for data sharing, Textron's blockchain airspace management for air taxi services, Hemply Yours' topical moisturizing composition, and LDR Medical's intervertebral disc prosthesis
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 26
by | Dec 4, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Grizzly Home's tornado-proof housing, American Airlines' demand forecasting, Avodah Labs'automated sign language translation and communication, Capital One's techniques to leverage machine learning for SEO, Olaeris' landing guidance for remotely operated aerial vehicles, Refocus Group's scleral prosthesis for treating presbyopia and other eye disorders, Swirlds' apparatus for efficiently implementing a fast-copyable database, and Toyota's system and method for Braille assistance.
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An illustration from Toyota’s newly granted patent for a physical assistive robotic system. [Image: USPTO, Patent No. 10478365]
Dallas Invents: 180 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 19
by | Nov 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's physical assistive robotic systems, Audatex North America's VIN-based insurance claim system, Bank of America's holistic data transmission throughout an enterprise, Novartis' curvature-changing, accommodative intraocular lens, Capital One's methods for co-browsing, and iMed Technology's antiseptic swab with activation button.
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Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 5

by | Nov 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Century Interactive's dynamic protection of personal information in audio recordings, Epsilon Data Management's social media instant win method and system, General Electric's system for data processing in a vehicle group, NEC's method for capturing images used in facial recognition, and Toyota's electronic and physical storage for shared vehicles.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 29
by | Nov 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's crowd location-based analytics for transactions, Bank of America's data transmission authentication and self-destruction, Evergaze's apparatus for improving, augmenting or enhancing vision, Futurewei Technologies' automatic identity detection, Imagine Communications' splicing media files, IBM's cognitive parking guidance, Lone Star IP Holdings' small smart weapon, and Oldcastle Building Envelope's demountable wall system.
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Dallas Invents: 126 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 22
by | Oct 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: University of Washington's cough detecting methods and devices for detecting coughs, Advanced Micro Devices' temperature-aware task scheduling and proactive power management, Cyber adAPT's cyber threat attenuation using multi-source threat data analysism, DFB Soria's delivery of drug nanoparticles , Ecotomic Group's furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production, Raytheon Company's detection system for detecting changes to circuitry, Retina Foundation of the Southwest's two-layer ocular implant, and Accudata Technologies' system for providing additional information to called parties.
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Dallas Invents: 143 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 15
by | Oct 23, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bell Helicopter Textron's anti-ice system for thermally fragile materials, Amazon Technologies' trust management in an electronic environment, Bank of America's synthesized voice authentication engine,K2M's expandable spinal implants, Lyft's apparatus for managing conference calls, Raytheon's LADAR data upsampling, UT, Texas AM System's 3D printing of regenerative bone healing scaffolds for rapid fracture healing, The Parking Genius' parking sensors capable of determining direction and speed of vehicle, and VPay's virtual payment card fraud detection.
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