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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 3
by Quincy Preston | Dec 11, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Futurewei's motion-based music recommendation for mobile devices, Golf Tailor's arm positioning aid for golf swing training, Harman Professional's gesture-based control application for data sharing, Textron's blockchain airspace management for air taxi services, Hemply Yours' topical moisturizing composition, and LDR Medical's intervertebral disc prosthesis
by Quincy Preston |
Dec 4, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Grizzly Home's tornado-proof housing, American Airlines' demand forecasting, Avodah Labs'automated sign language translation and communication, Capital One's techniques to leverage machine learning for SEO, Olaeris' landing guidance for remotely operated aerial vehicles, Refocus Group's scleral prosthesis for treating presbyopia and other eye disorders, Swirlds' apparatus for efficiently implementing a fast-copyable database, and Toyota's system and method for Braille assistance.
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's physical assistive robotic systems, Audatex North America's VIN-based insurance claim system, Bank of America's holistic data transmission throughout an enterprise, Novartis' curvature-changing, accommodative intraocular lens, Capital One's methods for co-browsing, and iMed Technology's antiseptic swab with activation button.
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Atos Digital Health Solutions' system for secure messaging, Bell Helicopter Textron's aircraft fleet maintenance system, Capital One's data sharing via distributed ledgers, Carefusion 303's variable dose dispensing system, Danco's smart water filter system, rewardStyle's dynamic creation of product links from a web browser, and Texas Instruments' one-way key fob and vehicle pairing.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 29
by Quincy Preston | Nov 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's crowd location-based analytics for transactions, Bank of America's data transmission authentication and self-destruction, Evergaze's apparatus for improving, augmenting or enhancing vision, Futurewei Technologies' automatic identity detection, Imagine Communications' splicing media files, IBM's cognitive parking guidance, Lone Star IP Holdings' small smart weapon, and Oldcastle Building Envelope's demountable wall system.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: University of Washington's cough detecting methods and devices for detecting coughs, Advanced Micro Devices' temperature-aware task scheduling and proactive power management, Cyber adAPT's cyber threat attenuation using multi-source threat data analysism, DFB Soria's delivery of drug nanoparticles , Ecotomic Group's furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production, Raytheon Company's detection system for detecting changes to circuitry, Retina Foundation of the Southwest's two-layer ocular implant, and Accudata Technologies' system for providing additional information to called parties.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 23, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bell Helicopter Textron's anti-ice system for thermally fragile materials, Amazon Technologies' trust management in an electronic environment, Bank of America's synthesized voice authentication engine,K2M's expandable spinal implants, Lyft's apparatus for managing conference calls, Raytheon's LADAR data upsampling, UT, Texas AM System's 3D printing of regenerative bone healing scaffolds for rapid fracture healing, The Parking Genius' parking sensors capable of determining direction and speed of vehicle, and VPay's virtual payment card fraud detection.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 16, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Audatex North America's predictive estimate for a damaged vehicle , Your Command's apparatus for electronically searching for an item, University of Texas' kit for external fixators for bone realignment, LapKing Holdings' method of tracking a vehicle's course, Capital One's social home buying system, Excentus Corporation's system of influencing customer behavior, Flashscan3D's biometric image sensor with spoofing detection, BlackBerry Limited's provisioning of emergency numbers, Tango's identification of a vehicle driver based on driving behavior, 1A Smart Start's automated calibration station for ignition interlock devices, and Bank of America Corporation's "Message spinning engine" to create or manage a queue.
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A new patent granted to Dallas-based teleCalm supports the expansion of its service to the hardware side, allowing for the incorporation of IoT devices and data to the company’s safe phone service for seniors living with Alzheimer’s & dementia. It’s the second patent for the company. [Image: Courtesy teleCalm]
Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 24
by Quincy Preston | Oct 2, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: teleCalm's telephone system for impaired individuals, AiBUY's interactive product placement system, Allied Bioscience's composition to form self decontaminating surface, Capital One Services' method for an ATM to issue a secured bank card, Flex-a-Rock Holdings' latex-based formulations for coating and sculpting applications, rewardStyle's methods for screenshot linking, Tella Firma's expendable fluid drive actuators for foundation lifting, Tesla's solar photovoltaic power conditioning units, TRV Dispense's soft food and beverage dispenser, and Wells Fargo Banks' methods for processing nuances in natural language.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 25, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcatel Lucent's driver behavior monitoring systems, Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems' bio-dimming lighting, CTL Medical Corporation's biomedical implants, Focal Therapeutics's implantable tissue marker device, GF-17's method for creating and sharing bots, Sprinkl.IO's remote wireless moisture sensors for irrigation, Texas Instrument's error-correcting analog-to-digital converters, and Victor Equipment Company's automated gas cutting system.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 18, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: American Security Product's physical article exchange using a safe, Armor Defense's detection of malicious instructions in a virtual machine memory, BLIVIC's needle for a bloodless intravenous catheter system, Capital One Services' visualization of vehicle condition using extended reality, Yeshvik Solutions' parking system, and Futurewei's device for providing a key for IoT communication.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 11, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Raytheon's "agricultural situational awareness" tool, Enseo's hospitality property management tool, Garrity Power Services' wirelessly powered locker, Global Tel*Link's AR system for guards, Microfabrica's releasable tissue anchoring device, MoneyGram's prefunding for money transfer, Nicomodo's floral packaging method and apparatus, Sigh's noise detector and analysis/alert engine, Toyota's vehicle console with device charging trays, USAA's methods for distributed currency management, Verizon's identification of wireless coverage for multi-occupant structures, and ZS Pharma's compositions to remove toxins from the GI tract.
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Dallas Invents: 153 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 20
by Quincy Preston | Aug 28, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Malibu Boats' adjustable surf wake system that lets a rider enhance the wake of a boat, Audi's system to detect and predict movement of a vehicle occupant, AT&T's augmented reality shopping displays, IBM's cognitive analysis for healing an IT system, and Bank of America's system to allow secure access to a virtual credential.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 21, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining user frustration with voice control, AmerisourceBergen's pharmaceutical management and tracking, AT&T's apparatus for enriching metadata via a network, Encryptics' digital rights management of documents, IBM's secure medication delivery, Med Hab's dual case for fall detection device, MWD-IP Holdings' nuclear waste storage and monitoring, ShockWatch's wireless environmental sensor, and Varidesk's leaning chair.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 14, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Vinli's cloud-integrated vehicle platform, Bank of America's network device spoofing detection, BizNet Software's smart data engine system, Blue Calypso's advertising distribution through mobile social gaming, CareFusion 303's methods for managing a return of medication, NxGen Partners' system for signal penetration into a building, PACCAR's augmented reality system for vehicle blind spot prevention, Platform Manufacturing Group's modular stair system, State Farms' vehicle image and sound data gathering for insurance rating purposes, USAA's low-bandwidth information distribution, and Verizon's traffic monitoring systems and methods.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 7, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Rockwell Collins' night sky spatial orientation, Advanced Cooling Therapy's devices for controlling patient temperature, Capital One Services' data processing platform monitoring, FreeFlight Systems' UAV guidance and communication device , Innovative Defense's subterranean formation shock fracturing charge delivery system, IBM's location of misplaced mobile computing devices, K2M's expandable spinal implants, Lennox Industries' systems for operating HVAC systems in low load conditions, Rolls-Royce Corp.'s aircraft engine cleaning system, and TissueGen's conformation and structural integrity of biomolecules
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