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Norton Rose Fulbright Adds 3 Lawyers to Intellectual Property Practice

by | 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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Patented: StaCyc’s Electric Bike and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Patented: Firehawk Aerospace’s Hybrid Rocket Engine Fuel Grains and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 2, 2024. 124 patents granted include: 7-Eleven’s system for determining an item count in a rack using magnetic sensors, Alcon’s methods for using machine learning to predict contact lens compatibility, American Airlines’ deep learning-based demand forecasting system, Bloodsolutions’ blood marketplace system, MedCognetics’ racially unbiased deep learning-based mammogram analyzer, Qorvo US’s semiconductor chip suitable for 2.5D and 3D packaging integration , and Raytheon Company’s metrics-based planning and scheduling system.
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Patented: Bank of America’s Chatbot Co‑Pilot and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Patented: Bank of America’s Resource Tracking System Using NFTs and More North Texas Inventive Activity

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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Patented: Textron Innovations’ VTOL Aircraft and More North Texas Invetive Activity
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: USAA’s Automatic Problem Detection From Sounds and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 19, 2023. 101 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's detecting and identifying misplaced items using a sensor array, AiTax Corporation's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and artificial intelligence, Bollinger Industries' portable power station, Discourse.AI's estimation of interlocutor intents and goals in turn-based electronic conversational flow, and Innomist's multi-mode fluid nozzles.
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Patented: UNT, InspectIR Systems’ Portable Breath Analysis System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Patented: Hunt Energy’s ‘Road‐Embedded’ Electrical Storage Batteries and More North Texas Inventive Activity

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
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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Patented: BNSF’s Railroad Virtual Track Block System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros with 108 patents granted for the week of Sept. 26. Patents granted include: BNSF's Railroad Virtual Track Block System, Digital Seat Media's location-based individualized content and mobile wallet offers, Flex Ltd.'s bio-sensing integrated garment, Mary Kay's delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin, PACCAR's headlamp heater, Palantir Technologies Inc.'s automated risk visualization using customer-centric data analysis, and Toyota's structural energy storage with carbon fiber.
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Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of August 8
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 139 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV- and HPV-related diseases, Better Vision Solutions' disinfecting contact lenses with a manganese-coated disc, FOI Group's automatic rotating agricultural system to irrigate, plant, gather forage, and/or harvest field and method for operating the system, Google's identifying a set of characters in a media file, Jpmorgan Chase Bank's system for integrating voice biometrics, Kyndryl's charging regulation model for electric vehicles on the road, Merative's determining drug effectiveness ranking for a patient using machine learning, Samsung's multi-sensor, multi-view, multi-frame, multi-task synthetic image fusion engine for mobile imaging system, State Farm's autonomous vehicle insurance based upon usage, Swiss-American CDMO's antimicrobial compositions that are non-toxic to mammals and plants, Thor Tech's mobile device tools for smart vehicle features operation and automatic wireless routing selection and methods of useAA's autonomous vehicle barricade, and Walmart Apollo's automatically annotating images.
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Dallas Invents: 69 Patents Granted for Week of May 2

Patents granted this week include: Bank of America's travel identity tokening, Floway Innovations' adaptive fluid switches for autonomous flow control, Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co.'s hybrid power devices, Intuit's automated field-mapping of account names for form population, Lennox Industries's method for identifying causes of HVAC system faults, Nice Ltd.'s methods for retrieving and presenting information using augmented reality, Norton Lifelock's protecting from automatic reconnection with Wi-Fi access points having bad reputations, Raytheon's image turbulence correction of moving targets, Skyhigh Security's security service for an unmanaged device, Unification Technologies' methods for identifying storage resources that are not in use, and USAA's call routing using artificial intelligence.
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Caldwell Cassady & Curry Adds Experienced Patent Attorney in Dallas
by | May 5, 2023
Aisha Haley comes to the firm as counsel with extensive experience with two law firms in Washington, D.C., and her years as a federal law clerk.
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Dallas Invents: 120 Patents Granted for Week of March 21
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, AT&T's emotion-based authentication service, Cancer Diagnostics Research Innovation's method for diagnosing and treating esophageal cancer, Citicorp Credit Services' multifactor authentication systems, Digital Tonic's augmented reality platform, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' microfluidic testing system for mobile veterinary applications, Sixgill's method of counting livestock, StaCyc's bike frame having a drive module enclosure, Textron Innovations' illuminated rope as an aircraft emergency egress aid, Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America's artificial muscles having vacuum coupled electrode insulators, Zixcorp Systems' delivery of an electronic message using a machine learning policy, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 114 Patents Granted for Week of March 14
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, AT&T's emotion-based authentication service, Cancer Diagnostics Research Innovation's method for diagnosing and treating esophageal cancer, Citicorp Credit Services' multifactor authentication systems, Digital Tonic's augmented reality platform, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' microfluidic testing system for mobile veterinary applications, Sixgill's method of counting livestock, StaCyc's bike frame having a drive module enclosure, Textron Innovations' illuminated rope as an aircraft emergency egress aid, Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America's artificial muscles having vacuum coupled electrode insulators, Zixcorp Systems' delivery of an electronic message using a machine learning policy, and more.
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