MCWANE

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