An illustration from FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' newly granted patent No. 10,538,398 shows an apparatus with a robotic arm for picking and arranging products to form a physical stack. [Image: USPTO/Patent No. 10,538,398]
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's narrow band awareness for in-device coexistence, Capital One's ground plane detection for placement of AR objects, CareView Communications' method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Dell's time-based local authentication in an information handling system utilizing asymmetric cryptography, Genband's denial-of-service protection for IP telephony systems, Texas Instruments' data encoder for power line communications, and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' apparatus for picking products.