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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Bear Robotics' system and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a robot
- CareView Communications' dual camera patient monitoring system
- Digit7 India's three camera retail self checkout unit
- Diodes' semiconductor device
- Discovery.com's transmitting interactive game features to multiple devices of a shared streaming media session
- The University of Texas System's digital light four-dimensional printing of programmable morphology and motion structures
Patented: Bank of America’s Enhanced NFT Authentication and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 23, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 8, with a total of 120 patents granted.
by Sandra Engelland |
May 22, 2024
The USPTO anticipates three upcoming vacancies for each committee. Selected members will serve a three-year term beginning Dec. 1, 2024, and can participate in the committees remotely. Nominations must be submitted online on or before July 5.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 27, 2024
The downtown Dallas Public Library is the only public library in the state of Texas to offer a Patent and Trademark Resource Center from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. PTRCs are part of a national network of public, state, and academic libraries in partnership with the USPTO to offer trademark and patent assistance to the public.
The USPTO aims to empower innovation by expanding access—so it recently put out a call to 600 libraries and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the country, inviting each institution to consider becoming PTRCs to assist their local innovators.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 5, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. 161 patents granted include: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' managing remote therapy sessions, Amazon Technologies' remote hardware execution service with customer consented debugging, Badge's public/private key biometric authentication system, Bank of America's real-time assessment of authenticity of a resource using non-fungible tokens, Cryptosoft's assessment and verification of Software Bill of Materials and vulnerabilities across a software supply chain life cycle using blockchain, Nanohive Medical's three-dimensional lattice structures for implants, Neuromersive's neural pathways creation/reinforcement by neural detection with virtual feedback, Phoenix Biotechnology's compositions for treating Coronavirus infection, Toyota's exoskeleton wheelchair system, Textron Innovation's submersible drone delivery and recovery system using waterproof aerial drone, and USAA's asset sharing using distributed ledger techniques.
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Dallas Invents: 69 Patents Granted for Week of May 2
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 10, 2023
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 3, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AXIP Energy Services' carbon dioxide capture from exhaust gas, Bank of America's intelligent cash handling, Capital One's vehicle identification driven by AR, DFB Soria's topical treatment for skin malignancies using nanoparticles of taxanes, Noodle.ai's artificial intelligence platform, Pacesetter's communication session between an implantable medical device and an external device, RailPros' automated railroad signage device, Tango Networks' enabling call originations using SMS and hotline capabilities, and Textron's distributed battery bank for ducted-rotor aircraft..
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 26, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Elevens' detecting of shelf interactions using a sensor array, Adobe's automatically removing moving objects from video streams, AT&T's data harmonization across multiple sources, BMIC's methods to enable automated roof planning using a processor, Caris Science's method for measuring the amount of at least one molecule in a biological sample, EIR Pharmaceuticals's aqueous extraction process of plants, Laminator Holding's monitoring a signage system of a transit vehicle, Raytheon's key terrain finder, Siemens Industry Software's process design and analysis, and Spark Biomedical's methods for the treatment of substance use disorders.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 29, 2023
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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U.S. Patent No. 11,591,076 (Inflatable drone with shape memory alloy wires) was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Dallas Invents: 132 Patents Granted for Week of February 28
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 7, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Adaptive 3D and UT Systems' vat resin for 3D stereolithography printing, American Airlines' mobile ground equipment location monitoring, Brightplus Ventures's image enhanced liquid crystal display devices, CBN Nano Technologies' mechanosynthesis, Halo Microelectronics Co.'s wireless charging transmitter system , IBM's historical augmentation of electronic maps, Mirelz's real-time virtual try-on item modeling, Neurolens' measuring binocular alignment, RealPages' interaction-driven AI system and uses for same, including travel or real estate related contexts, Toyota's inflatable drone with shape memory alloy wires, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 6, 2023
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has launched a special category of its Patents for Humanity Program for green energy inventions, a category that will provide business incentives for patent applicants, holders, and licensees whose inventions are addressing the challenges of climate change through green energy innovations, including wind, solar, hydrogen, hydropower, geothermal, and biofuels technologies....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 10, 2023
The nation’s highest honor for technological achievement will be bestowed by President Biden, the USPTO said. The medal is awarded to individuals, teams, and companies for outstanding contributions to the nation’s economic, environmental, and social well-being—through tech products, tech innovation, and strengthening America's tech workforce.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 26, 2023
Innovators across North Texas and entrepreneurs all over the U.S. are racing to launch (and patent) the latest breakthrough AI. That can lead to IP policy issues as emerging tech hits the market. On February 8, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will a public meeting to discuss how to promote innovation in AI and Machine Learning tech, to be held virtually and in person at the Arts District Mansion in Dallas.
"The takeaways will shape future work on AI and ET policy," says USPTO Director Kathi Vidal.
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USPTO, Commerce Department Launch Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative to Empower More Women Founders
by Lance Murray | Nov 17, 2022
The WE initiative launches ahead of Women’s Entrepreneurship Day this Saturday, November 19, and comes on the heels of President Biden’s recent proclamation naming this month as National Entrepreneurship Month.
“Unleashing the potential of women entrepreneurs is good for business, good for families, and good for our economy,” the U.S. Secretary of Commerce says.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 3, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros.
• Frito-Lay’s plant protein snack with meat-like texture
• Treble Innovations’ portable wireless endoscope
• Toyota’s systems and methods for automatically cleaning wheels
• Good Sportsman Marketing’s communication device for hearing protection devices
• Panacea Quantum Leap Technology’s bidirectional sensor circuit
• Badge’s biometric public key system providing revocable credentials
• AMS International AG’s method and device for estimating ambient light
• Heart Test Laboratories’ quantitative heart testing
• Futurewei Technologies’ transaction-based hybrid memory
• Treble Innovations’ portable wireless endoscope
• Toyota’s systems and methods for automatically cleaning wheels
• Good Sportsman Marketing’s communication device for hearing protection devices
• Panacea Quantum Leap Technology’s bidirectional sensor circuit
• Badge’s biometric public key system providing revocable credentials
• AMS International AG’s method and device for estimating ambient light
• Heart Test Laboratories’ quantitative heart testing
• Futurewei Technologies’ transaction-based hybrid memory
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 7, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 121 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include:7-Eleven's Event Trigger Based On Region-Of-Interest Near Hand-Shelf Interaction, Coronado Aesthetics' Delivery Of Nanoparticles, Her Technologies' Skin Rejuvenation Device, IBM's Assisted Smart Device Context Performance Information Retrieval, Intuit's Optimization Based On Archetypes, Match Group's System And Method For Modifying A Preference, Red River Tea's Touchless Beverage Dispensing Valve, Sigl-G's Geothermal Power Generation, Solo Brands' Combustible Fuel Burning Stove With Spark Arrestor, Toyota's Off-Highway Auto Ev Mode, ZscalerCloud-Based Virtual Private Access Systems And Methods For Application Access , Siemens Industry Software's Isometric Control Data Generation for Test Compression and Vive Scientific's Apparatus For Tissue Ablation Using Radiofrequency Energy And Method Of Use
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 31, 2022
Bank of America's correction, synchronization, and migration of databases, Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration with refillable medication dispensing devices, UT Systems' cancer cell trap, Cleanspray USA's disinfection system for mass transit vehicles, Fujifilm Medical Systems' detecting errors in artificial intelligence engines, Knightscope's autonomous parking monitor, Micron Technology's modified checksum using a poison data pattern, Texas Instruments' handling non-correctable errors, Textron Innovations' fuel cell powered line-replaceable thrust module, The Nielsen Company's methods and apparatus to improve usage crediting in mobile devices, and UNT's ultrasonic through-wall sensors.
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