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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.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
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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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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AT&T Intellectual Property has been granted U.S. patent #12095813 for a system that detects homoglyph attacks, invented by Antoine Diffloth, Natalie Gilbert, and Sundaresan Manoharan. The system uses convolutional and siamese neural networks to identify malicious domain name variations, where visually similar characters from different alphabets (like 'O' vs. '0' or 'l' vs. 'I') are used to deceive users. This helps businesses safeguard their protected domain names from cyber threats. [Source image: Dragon Claws / iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- American Security Products' physical exchange using a safe
- Bank of America's data processing by a self-correcting, deep neural network integrated within a memory resource
- The University of Texas System's controlling prosthetic devices by gestures and other modalities
- Care View Communications' monitoring a fall state of a patient while minimizing false alarms
- Comcast Cable Communications' dynamic virtual element positioning in an augmented reality environment
- Fluid Dynamic Sciences' fast feature recognition and mesh generation in structural design
- GEMMY Industries' firework lighting device
- Intellective AI’s alert directives and focused alert directives in a behavioral recognition system
- KoiReader Technologies' edge computing device and system for vehicle, container, railcar, trailer, and driver verification
- Legacy Ventures' clot retrieval system
- Marvell Asia's system and method for bitcoin mining with reduced power
- Mary Kay’s delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin
- Ryder Integrated Logistics' vehicle fleet control systems and methods
- SightGlass Vision's methods and devices for reducing myopia in children
- The Nielsen Company's methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history
- Walmart Apollo's systems for detecting and tracking humans in captured images
Patented: AT&T’s Homoglyph Attack Detection and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 2, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 24, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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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 |
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 8, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 16, 2024. 109 patents granted include: Arkestro’s electronic third-party negotiation automation system and tool, Baylor Research Institute’s compositions for treating autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, Boston Scientific Neuromodulation’s neuroinflammation treatments with parameters controlled using biomarkers, and Global Tel*Link Corporation’s mobile correctional facility robots.
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Illustration of a user interface for Bank of America's Chatbot Co-Pilot, designed for seamless integration between AI and human agents to enhance customer service efficiency. [Image via USPTO: U.S. Patent No. US 11,893,356 B1, Figure 5]
Patented: Bank of America’s Chatbot Co‑Pilot and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 28, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 124 patents granted for Feb. 6 include: Allegro MicroSystems' rapid data transfer sensor arrays, ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems AB's vehicle guidance systems and associated methods of use at logistics yards and other locations, Avery Dennison Retail Information Services' RFID vial tracking with RFID inlay, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's computer vision system for object tracking and time-to-collision, Wells Fargo Bank's biometric electronic signature tokens, and an unassigned patent for facilitating pollution-free tire recycling processes..
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 21, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 30. 164 patents granted include: World’s Enterprises’ 2D detections and tracking, UNTHSC’s personalized medicine approach for treating cognitive loss, Toyota’s optical communication system for management of vehicle batteries, Overhead Door’s sliding barrier tracking system, 7-Eleven’s item identification using digital image processing, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 14, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 121 patents granted include: Mavenir Networks' method and apparatus for balancing server load in cloud RAN systems, Meta Platforms's selective offload of workloads to edge devices, Musarubra's system and method for detecting repetitive cybersecurity attacks constituting an email campaign, and National Tech Engineering Solutions of Sandia's secure authentication using recurrent neural networks.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 7, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. 129 patents granted for the week of 1/16/24 include: Equifax’s secure online access control to prevent identification information misuse, Musarubra’s system and method for automatically prioritizing rules for cyber-threat detection and mitigation, Max-IR Labs’ IR radiation and fluid channel to detect contaminants and salts in fluids, Meta Platforms’ systems and methods for determining hand poses in artificial reality environments, Textron’s VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans.
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Patented: UNT, InspectIR Systems’ Portable Breath Analysis System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jan 10, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 12, 2023. Patents granted include: Rochal Technologies' composition and kits for inhibition of pathogenic microbial infection, Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, Pratt Corrugated Holdings' tamper-evident box, BMIC's water-resistant acrylic coatings, AT&T's auto machine learning via optimal hybrid AI formulation from crowd, Capital One Services' pattern-level sentiment prediction, Toyota Motor North America's accessible ride hailing and transit platform, Kyndryl's artificial intelligence system for tasks, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 15, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros, with 116 patents for the week of Oct. 31. Patents granted include: Bank of America's user authentication using tokens, Capital One Services' predictive engine for machine-learning failures, CommScope Technologies' DC power systems using communication networks, Dentsply Sirona's tooth attachment placement device, Hoya Optical Labs of America's easy-clean coating, Illumina's flexible seed extension for hash table genomic mapping, Juul Labs' concentrate adaptor for vaporizer device, Lennox Industries' occupancy tracking using user device detection, Stryker Corporation's battery management for patient support apparatuses, Texas Instruments' tamper detection, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's electronic skin for vehicle components, United Services Automobile Association's virtual reality for catastrophe preparedness and response education, Walmart Apollo's product identification within an image, and West Pak Avocado's supply chain management system and method.
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activi
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 1, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of October 17. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's proactive request communication system with data prediction, Raytheon's laser weapon system with integrated targeting camera, Toyota's personalized adaptive cruise control that learns and mimics your driving style, Samsung's under-display smartphone camera for true full-screen experience, Intel's energy efficient bitcoin mining chip, NxGen Partners' miniaturized virus sterilization device using radio frequencies, Alcon's vision simulation for patients with eye conditions, Hunt Energy's road-embedded batteries, McAfee's methods and apparatus to defend against adversarial machine learning, Zengine's machine learning system for asymmetrical matching of medical providers and care receivers, and more.
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Patented: Adobe’s ‘Depicting Humans in Text-Defined Outfits’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 24, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 10, 2023: Patents granted include: Adobe's depicting humans in text-defined outfits, Bank of America's threat detection within information systems, Capital One's purchase recommendations based on responses to inquiries on product attributes, EllansaLabs' systems for authentication and related devices and methods, FeverTags' livestock health monitoring system and method of use, Illuma Labs' speaker authentication and identification, Linear Labs' multi-tunnel electric motor/generator, and Toyota's method for detecting objects left behind by using heated resistive filament in a vehicle.
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