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Lennox Industries won a patent for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning control device. [Image: USPTO Patent #18340116; DI Studio]
Patented: Lennox’s Machine-Learning Thermostat Scheduling and 105 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Oct 7, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 nationally with 106 patents the week of Sept. 15. One went to Richardson-based Lennox for a thermostat that predicts when a home is occupied and adjusts based on how aggressively the user wants to save energy.
Bedford-based Nanoscope Instruments Inc.’s new patent covers an apparatus and method for measuring the functional vision of patients with low vision. [Illustration: Sources, USPTO Patent No. 12702291-B2; DI Studio]
Patented: Nanoscope Instruments’ Low-Vision Function Test and 134 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Sep 2, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 among 250 U.S. metros in patent production for the week of Aug. 11, with 135 patents granted to inventors and companies across the region.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 17, 2025
The USPTO wants to help startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs grow their businesses with knowledge of the patent process. In the U.S., industry and commerce that rely on IP protection accounts for $7.8 trillion in annual GDP and supports 63 million jobs.
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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.
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Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is located in downtown Dallas. [Photo: Michael Samples]
The Last Word: How the USPTO’s Resource Centers Are Empowering Innovation by Expanding Access
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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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 |
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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U.S. Patent No. 11,631,164 (System and method for high precision multi-aperture spectral imaging) was assigned to Spectral MD, Inc.
Dallas Invents: 117 Patents Granted for Week of April 18
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 22, 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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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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