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Liquid carrier and dispenser, US Patent 10,787,300; assigned to Smurfit Kappa North America LLC.
Dallas Invents: 107 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 29
by Quincy Preston | Oct 14, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's multi-camera image tracking on a global plane, Apple's licensed assisted access signal detection for reducing power use, AT&T Mobility's cell user occupancy indicator to enhance intelligent traffic steering, BlackBerry's emergency services handling, Smurfit Kappa North America's liquid carrier and dispenser, Toyota's methods for predicting and detecting a cardiac event, and an unassigned autonomous swimming pool skimmer
by Quincy Preston |
Oct 7, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's custom rack for scalable position tracking system, Flatiron Health's extracting facts from unstructured data, Futurewei's intruder detection method and apparatus, Hemotek's plant medium including an oxygen-enabled composition, Mary Kay's combination of plant extracts to improve skin tone, Spectral MD's machine learning for healing prediction and treatment of wounds, the U.S. Government's energy generation, Toyota's intelligent road markers, and Wells Fargo Bank's monitored alerts.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 30, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: BlackBerry's method for managing local emergency numbers, Dell's information handling system for eye-tracking data, Doskocil's pet carrier car seat, Enseo's method for making reservations, Facebook's location-based content aggregation and distribution, Frito-Lay's apparatus for production of snack food pellets, Mazor Robotics' global spinal alignment method, and Novartis' cancer biomarkers predictive of therapeutic responsiveness.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 23, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 1974 Productions' delivering music content to a smart phone, 7-Eleven's tracking positions using a scalable position tracking system, Amazon's multi-channel order management, Flowserve's permanent magnet submersible motor, SMU's imaging hidden objects, and Toyota's vehicle-to-vehicle sensor data sharing.
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Autonomous package delivery aircraft, US Patent 10,752,350 assigned to Textron Innovations Inc.
Dallas Invents: 150 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 25
by Quincy Preston | Sep 9, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Textron Innovations' autonomous package delivery aircraft, Interstate Battery's battery ecosystem, American Airline's demand class remapping for airline seat bookings, NIKE's ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear, ADT's portable system for managing events, Global Tel*Link's product ordering and delivery for inmates, R2 Solutions' targeted sidebar advertising, Ortloff Engineers' hydrocarbon gas processing, and Oceus Networks' mobile cellular networks
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 2, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's approach for traffic overhead and UE mobility tradeoff, Audatex North America's mobile system for generating a damaged vehicle insurance estimate, Capital One's database image matching using machine learning with output estimation, Flowserve's near field RF powered electronic valve actuator, Ingar's management of aerial drone parcel transfers, IBM's location-aware trust-based P2P currency exchange, Lennox's intelligent defrost control method, and Oceus's mobile cellular networks.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 26, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Accenture's rendering virtual objects in 3D environments, AirWay Technologies' apparatus for improved breathing, Amazon's parallelized forensic analysis using cloud-based servers, Oceus Networks' secure network enrollment, REWARDSTYLE's screenshot linking, VPay's payment card reconciliation, and Toyota's agreement acceptance for vehicle platooning.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 19, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bell's personal air vehicle with ducted fans, Cambium Learning's tags for unlocking digital content, Capital One's vehicle recommendations by user-valued features, StacyC's convertible motorized running cycle, USAA's indoor drone flight awareness system, and Walmart's workflow coordinator.
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U.S. Patent No. 10716599 was assigned to Globus Medical, Inc. for an artificial spinal disk prothesis. [Illustration: United States Patent and Trademark Office]
Dallas Invents: 101 Patents Granted for Week of July 21
by Quincy Preston | Aug 5, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Globus Medical's artificial spinal disk prothesis, Allstate's accident re-creation using augmented reality, AT&Ts 5D edge cloud network design, Blacktop Plus' therapeutic elastic sports tape, IBM's smart garment, Kwikboost's mobile device charging stations, State Farm's trip-based vehicle insurance, and Toyota's co-pilot and conversational companion.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 29, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's detection of sentiment shift, Verizon's hyper-accuracy location platform, The Parking Genius' parking sensors to determine direction and speed with magnetic signature recognition, E3 Water's mobile sewage treatment and water reclamation system, Authentix's product authentication using barcode characteristics, and TRAXXAS' self-righting vehicle.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 22, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include:Amazon's techniques for synchronizing communication across devices, Applied Concepts' absolute speed detector, Authentix's fluorescence based global fuel analysis method, Capital One's systems to update listings using crowdsourced images, Lyft's method for managing media content, NxGen's quantum resistant blockchain, Ommo Technologies's tracking using a magnetic field, Omnitracs' vehicle and drone management system, Toyota's vehicle collision mitigation, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 21, 2020
Dallas Invents tracks inventive activity in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area with look at patents granted by the USPTO.
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Illustration: alphaspirit via iStock
Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of June 23
by Quincy Preston | Jul 8, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Accenture Global Services' connected classroom system, ATT Mobility's blockchain based device management, Bank of America's event execution using a blockchain approach, Building Materials Investment Corp.'s roof integrated photovoltaic system, Capital One Services' ;otless storage of vehicle inventory, and The Nielsen Company's apparatus to detect uninstallation of an on-device meter.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 1, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 7-Eleven's action detection during image tracking, Alto-Shaam's multizone oven with variable volume steam-assisted cooking zones, Astrapi's spiral polynomial division multiplexing, Bank of America's ID of candidate training utterances from human conversations with an intelligent interactive assistant, Baylor Research Institute's anti-CD40 antibodies, Halliburton's position indicator through acoustics, IBM's big data sourcing simulator, OMNITRACS' vehicle video recording system with driver privacy, an unassigned solar swimming pool skimmer, Verizon's streaming content using ad hoc networks of user devices, and Warstic Sports's baseball bat with symmetrical rounded knob
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 24, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's multifocal lens having reduced visual disturbances, Ataia's methods for communicating through a hard plastic mask, Capital One's methods for intelligent income verification to improve loan contract funding, Lockheed Martin's generation of a 3-D physical map using different data sources, Panacea Quantum Leap Technology's device for the extraction of water from the environment, and Trimble's earthquake and displacement early warning system.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 16, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros this week. Patents granted include IBM's social-geofenced-based application management for battery maximization, Intuit's integration of real-time personalized documents into a video conference session, Karsten's golf club with polymeric insert and removable weight, Lockheed's method for opening a combination padlock, Skycam's infinite virtual pan tilt zoom camera, TI's turn-on power switch, TollSense's methods for monitoring roadways using magnetic signatures, Walmart's air-cooled ammonia refrigeration systems, and Wilson Electronic's desktop signal booster.
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