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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of June 25

by | Jul 3, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Barferno's real-time patron-activity information system, CPG Technologies' wired and wireless power distribution coexistence, Apple Inc.'s user equipment location on a wireless transmission system, Facebook's location-based content aggregation and distribution, PayPal's management based on user tolerance for waiting in line, and Sensogram Technologies' non-invasive wearable blood pressure monitoring system.
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Dallas Invents: 101 Patents Granted for Week of June 18
by | Jun 26, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's access control using device location tracking and blockchain, Dolby Laboratories' control of light spreading with blurring element in projector systems, FedEx's method for removing customer personal information from an electronic device, Halliburton's subterranean monitoring using enhanced video, SoftLayer's portable and flexible deployment of servers, and The Parking Genius' sensors using magnetic signature recognition.
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Dallas Invents: 163 Patents Granted for Week of June 11
by | Jun 19, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: IBM's management of cookie data, AMI Investments' remote monitoring of water distribution systems, Bank of America's data security and risk ranking tool, Daltile's glazed porcelain roof tile, Ilumi's LED lighting device, The Nielsen Company's apparatus to monitor mobile internet activity, and Toyota's personalized active safety systems.
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Dallas Invents: 124 Patents Granted for Week of June 4
by | Jun 12, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Knightscope's autonomous parking monitor, Service King's auto repair systems including 3D printed parts, Siemens intelligent 3D printer, Johnson & Johnson's pupil-only photochromic contact lenses, Bank of America's authorization of a user in a virtual reality environment, ATT's distributed forwarding service, Freeflight Acquisition's quick-mount detachable antenna, and Imagine Communications' distributed ledger platform.
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Dallas Invents: 123 Patents Granted for Week of May 21

by | May 29, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Amazon's mitigation of distributed denial-of-service attacks, American Vehicular Sciences' in-vehicle signage for displaying data about road signs, IBM's collaborative shopping across multiple channels using shared virtual carts, nMetric's bus stop systems, The Parking Genius' user validation system, Vivify's virtual rehabilitation system, Breghtway Construction Solutions' insulating panel for stucco exterior
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of May 14
by | May 22, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Novartis' multifocal diffractive ophthalmic lens, Refocus Group's scleral prosthesis for treating presbyopia and other eye disorders, Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV, New York Air Brake's train emission control system, ID Technology's in-line label applicator, Avodah Lab's visual sign language translation training, Toyota's distracted driver notification system, Linear Labs' magnetic motor, and an unassigned system for using AI for routing electric vehicles.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of May 7
by | May 14, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's dynamic employee security risk scoring, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Freeflight Acquisitions' autonomous anonymity system, IBM's video sentiment analysis tool for video messaging,Peloton Therapeutics' methods of treating pulmonary arterial hypertension, Siemens Healthcare's image-based tumor phenotyping with machine learning from synthetic data, and STMicroelectronics' zero standby power for powerline communication devices
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Dallas Invents: 118 Patents Granted for Week of April 30
by | May 8, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Nvidia's sound-activated control system, Shavelogic's pivoting razors, YSEOP's techniques for automatic generation of natural language text, Shooting Simulator's  method for marksmanship training, Wells Fargo's biometric electronic signature tokens, Advatect Diagnostics' compositions for detecting fungi and mycotoxins, Bell's avionics system for using a smartphone to input-output flight data, CareView Communications'  system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Moneygram's methods for providing bail and bond services via a money transfer network, and HoboLoco's foot-operated video game and virtual reality controller.
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Dallas Invents: 115 Patents Granted for Week of April 16

by | Apr 24, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's augmented reality visual Wi-Fi signal, Bank of America's autonomous software containers, Genband's method for blocking notification messages during screen sharing, Linear Labs' brushless electric motor/generator, Sabre's tokenized data security, Phazr's window-installed wireless communications device, Conduent's method for video-based detection of drive-offs and walk-offs
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of April 9
by | Apr 17, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. 
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of April 2
by | Apr 10, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Velos Media's device for decoding a video bitstream; Apple's cylindrical compact computing system; State Farm's detection of anomalous computer behavior; Texas Instruments' estimation of time to collision in a computer vision system; USAA's monitoring systems and methods for personal safety; Toyota's smart necklace with stereo vision and onboard processing; and Watchguard's system for peer-to-peer operation of multiple recording devices
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of March 26
by | Apr 3, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Google's proximity payment system environment response; Omnitrac's management of movable objects; Raytheon's methods for acquiring, launching, and guiding missiles to multiple targets; Samsung's techniques for millimeter-wave mobile communication; Slocum Geophysics' airborne geophysical exploration;; and more.
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Dallas Invents: 97 Patents Granted for Week of March 12

by | Mar 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Futurewei Technologies' foldable mobile device • IBM's cognitive geofencing • Lockheed Martin's aircraft laser detector • Uniloc's pedestrian traffic monitoring and analysis
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Platooning trucks create “road trains” where two or more trucks follow each other closely. Paccar’s platooning light fence system may communicate to passenger vehicles that trucks are traveling as a team to discourage cut-ins or cut-offs. [Illustration: Fig. 1, Patent No. 10220768 via USPTO. Background: Dallas Innovates.]
Dallas Invents: 148 Patents Granted for Week of March 5
by | Mar 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Toyota's vehicle bumper damage indication • Bell's aircraft with manned and unmanned flight modes • University of Texas' methods for light-dependent gene regulation • Conduent Business Services' system for optimizing passenger pick up • Amazon's system for impairment issues of distributed hosts • Paccar's platooning light fence system for trucks
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Dallas Invents: 110 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 26
by | Mar 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Avaya's method for securing account access by verifying account with email provider • Asphalt Sciences' method of dissolving tire rubber • Bell's aircraft with autonomous and remote flight control capabilities • IBM's intelligent driving recommendation system • Toyota's systems for locally aligning map data • Verizon's wireless infrastructure with distributed fiber networks
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 19
by | Feb 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Armor Defense's system to detect and extract malicious instructions on a virtual machine • American Airline's departure sequencing system that includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer • IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems of a computer system • SanDisk Technologies' flash card end of life prediction based on memory wear • an unassigned patent for a pull tab simulating a cannabis leaf cutout
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