Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC has received a newly granted patent for "Evaluating Online Activity to Identify Transitions Along a Purchase Cycle," invented by Bo Hong, Matthew White, Peter Willard Shankel, Shanshan Wang, and Varadha Sundaram. The patent describes a system that uses metrics such as breadth, depth, and recency of online consumer interactions to detect change points indicating state transitions in the purchase cycle. [Images sources: USPTO Patent #12165161, Fig. 2E; DI Studio background]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Amazon Technologies' stylized text transcription for messaging
- Astrapi's polynomial symbol waveforms
- AT&T's controlling access to datasets described in a cryptographically signed record
- Blue Core Technologies' remediation of floodwater-damage
- BMIC's methods of forming an adhesive composition from asphalt shingle waste powder
- Capital One Services' vulnerability dashboard and automated remediation
- Counterfog's sampling air-borne particles
- Lennox Industries' programming products with software tokens
- Pratt Corrugated Holdings' method of using a tamper-evident box
- Qorvo US' high electron mobility transistors (HEMTS) including a yttrium (Y) and aluminum nitride (AIN) (YAIN) alloy layer
- Thumbtack's image recognition and report generation
- Verily Life Sciences' network-connected containers having medication stored therein
- Wing Aviation's autonomous control techniques for avoiding collisions with cooperative aircraft
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 10 with a total of 127 patents granted.