Dallas Invents: In the week of October 4, 129 patents were granted

Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of October 4, 2022 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

129 patents granted
Ranked No. 10 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 8
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 13
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 3
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 6
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 11
G: PHYSICS 44
H: ELECTRICITY 29

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 12
Shadow Systems LLC (Plano) 5
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 4
Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA) 4
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 4
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison) 3
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston) 3
Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) 3

UNASSIGNED 8

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Richard Pederson (Plano) 4
Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano) 4
Anthony Joseph Ribic (Richardson) 2
Brian J. Pinkelman (Ann Arbor, MI) 2
Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth) 2
Jared O. Santibanez (Forney) 2
Jiancong Ruan (Shenzhen, , CN) 2
Jingjing Zhang (Plano) 2
Matthew Sullivan (Austin) 2
Paul A. Gilmore (Ann Arbor, MI) 2

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Perspiration diverting headband
Patent No. 11457679

Inventor(s): David Baxter (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16729431 on 12/29/2019 (1010 days app to issue)

Abstract: A perspiration diverting headband is provided having a flexible tubing having a first and second end, an elastic band, wherein the band is disposed within the tubing, a first connector coupled to a first end of the tubing, and a second connector coupled to a second end of the tubing, wherein the first and second connector secure the elastic band and tubing, and a slidable tension fastener configured to secure the elastic band. In addition, the tubing can be flexible tubing that is cylindrical in cross-section. Further, the flexible tubing can be configured to divert perspiration fluids away from a forehead region to a temple region of a user”s head. Further, the headband can be simple to use and adjust, simple to manufacture, made of light weight moisture resistant and anti-microbial material, hygienic, and can be customized and configured to any shape, color, or design.

[A41D] OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES (eye or ear protectors A61F 9/00, A61F 11/00; sweating suits A61H 36/00)

Ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear
Patent No. 11457692

Inventor(s): Jonathan Rasca (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): NIKE, Inc. (Beaverton, OR)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16985519 on 08/05/2020 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: Ground-engaging components for articles of footwear include: (a) an outer perimeter boundary rim that at least partially defines an outer perimeter of the ground-engaging component, wherein the outer perimeter boundary rim defines an open space at least at a forefoot support area of the ground-engaging component; and (b) a matrix structure extending at least partially across the open space at least at the forefoot support area to define an open cellular construction with plural open cells in the open space at least at the forefoot support area. A plurality of these open cells of the open cellular construction have openings with curved perimeters and no distinct corners. Additional aspects of this invention relate to ground-engaging components that are very lightweight yet very stiff, particularly in the forefoot support area. Two or more sizes of the ground-engaging components may be provided with substantially constant forefoot stiffness (optionally substantially constant over a size run).

[A43B] CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR

Ball cap display rack
Patent No. 11457752

Inventor(s): Michael W Cetera (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17181099 on 02/22/2021 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cap rack includes a base strip having a substantially semicircular support band positioned thereon. The support band upwardly extends at a predetermined, acute angle relative to a vertical plane to restrain a ball cap in an optimal viewing angle. The support band includes a clip on each of two side portions and a button retainer on an upper portion for securing a folded cap crown. Multiple strips can be interconnected to form a rack having a larger capacity, if desired.

[A47F] SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS, OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS

Packable modular combustion grill
Patent No. 11457771

Inventor(s): Alexander K. Maghsadi (Lewisville, TX), Eric H. Jan (Lehi, UT)
Assignee(s): Solo Brands, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16816043 on 03/11/2020 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: A grill stove includes a kettle, legs, and a lid. The kettle includes an outer wall with a ventilation aperture, an inner wall, and a top collar extending between the inner wall and the outer wall and connecting the top portion of the outer wall to the top portion of the inner wall to form a dual-walled kettle. A base pan may be attached to the outer wall and may form a bottom of the kettle. A nest pan may have an edge and a ventilation aperture. The edge of the nest pan may be attached to the bottom portion of the inner wall and disposed above the base pan. The nest pan and the base pan being spaced apart to form a gap therebetween. The ventilation aperture of the nest pan may be in fluid communication with the ventilation aperture of the outer wall. An ash pan may be removably positionable above the nest pan.

[A47J] KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES [6]

Tissue retractor
Patent No. 11457906

Inventor(s): Keith Klausman (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL INC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17033630 on 09/25/2020 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tissue retractor having a central body, a posterior housing slidably coupled to the central body via a first two way overrunning clutch, a posterior arm slidably coupled to the posterior housing via a second two way overrunning clutch, a right arm rotatably coupled to the central body via a hinge pin and third two way overrunning clutch and a left arm rotatably coupled to the central body via a hinge pin and fourth two way overrunning clutch.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Derotation reducer linkage
Patent No. 11458026

Inventor(s): Anthony Valkoun (Carlsbad, CA), Eric Quaal (Carlsbad, CA), Thomas Purcell (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL INC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16869472 on 05/07/2020 (880 days app to issue)

Abstract: A derotation reducer linkage with polyaxial locking connector for use with screw reducers/extenders in spinal fusion surgery.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Crenolanib for treating FLT3 mutated proliferative disorders
Patent No. 11458131

Inventor(s): Vinay K. Jain (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): AROG PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16996400 on 08/18/2020 (777 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

Plant medium including an oxygen-enabled composition
Patent No. 11458161

Inventor(s): Caree L. Woodmansee (Marshall, TX), John W. Woodmansee, Jr. (Frisco, TX), Robert A. Woodmansee (Plano, TX), William E. Harmon (Russellville, AR)
Assignee(s): HEMOTEK, LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17025860 on 09/18/2020 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: A composition including a plant medium and a poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide that comprises a clathrate containing oxygen gas molecules. The poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide may comprise of a poly-oxygenated aluminum hydroxide. The composition may include one or more nutrients. The composition may be in a solid form, a fluid form, or a combination thereof. The poly-oxygenated aluminum hydroxide is soluble in a fluid. In one embodiment, the poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide composition may have particles having a diameter of 212 m or less, and which may be homogeneous.

O P E R A T I O N S & T R A N S P O R T

System and method for controlling color characteristics of a printed image
Patent No. 11458724

Inventor(s): Alan Then (Dallas, TX), Brian Gamm (McKinney, TX), Steven Headley (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Vision Technology (A.V.T.) Ltd. (Hod Hasharon, , IL)
Law Firm: RatnerPrestia (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16333183 on 09/07/2017 (1853 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method controls the color in a printing press, which includes at least one printing station printing a respective color design. The method includes the procedures of determining a control factor to color model, printing a design on a web and acquiring color characteristics corresponding to the printed design on the web. The method further includes the procedures of determining the color quality of the printed color design and determining a required change to at least one control factor when a correction to the color characteristics of the printed design is required. The change to at least one control factor is determined by determining the at least one control factor with respective color related information, which results in a reference color characteristic, according to the control factor to color model. The method returns to the procedure of printing when a correction is not required.

[B41F] PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES (manifolding devices or office printing machines B41L) [4]

Vehicular lighting system
Patent No. 11458899

Inventor(s): Alexander L. Paradis (Ann Arbor, MI), Frank A. Richards (Ann Arbor, MI), Skylar C. Watson (Williamston, MI), Stuart Roger Wuerthele (Saline, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17703075 on 03/24/2022 (194 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lighting system for a vehicle can include a sideview mirror assembly mountable to an exterior of the vehicle over a ground area near the vehicle. The lighting system can also include a service lamp integrated with the sideview mirror assembly. The service lamp can be configured to project one or more narrow beams of light to illuminate one or more jack placement indicator spots on the ground area. The service lamp can also be configured to project one or more broad beams of light to illuminate the ground area and/or one or more wheels of the vehicle.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

Systems for preventing the automatic retraction of a seatbelt
Patent No. 11458918

Inventor(s): Daniel J. Walter (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16844096 on 04/09/2020 (908 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to a system for preventing the automatic retraction of a seatbelt. The system generally includes one or more processors, one or more host vehicle status sensors, one or more seatbelt braking mechanisms, and one or more memory modules. The one or more host vehicle status sensors output a status signal that a host vehicle is stopped an off-road driving condition. The one or more memory modules store logic that causes the one or more processors to determine that the host vehicle is in the off-road driving condition based on the status signal output by the one or more host vehicle status sensors and activate the one or more seatbelt braking mechanisms in response to detecting the host vehicle is in the off-road driving condition to prevent automatic retraction of the seatbelt.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

Fleet-based average lane change and driver-specific behavior modelling for autonomous vehicle lane change operation
Patent No. 11458974

Inventor(s): John-Michael McNew (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16505077 on 07/08/2019 (1184 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for creating more organic lane change models for autonomous or semi-autonomous operation of a vehicle. A plurality of data associated with a plurality of driver-performed lane change maneuvers is collected from a plurality of different vehicle. Driver-performed lane change maneuvers are discarded when determined to fall outside a threshold of safety. A generic model is generated from the non-discarded data for average lane change maneuvers. Specific models can be generated for different drivers, vehicle types, and other metrics by comparison with the generic model.

[B60W] CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT [2006.01]

Systems and methods to enable reciprocation in vehicular micro cloud
Patent No. 11458996

Inventor(s): Onur Altintas (Mountain View, CA), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, CA), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16847002 on 04/13/2020 (904 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and embodiments described herein relate to managing benefit distribution in a vehicular micro cloud in which a plurality of vehicle members collaboratively execute operations in an environment of the vehicular micro cloud. A disclosed method may include monitoring a distributed execution of a micro cloud operation initiated by the ego vehicle, determining a contribution level of a vehicle member of the vehicular micro cloud that contributed toward completing the micro cloud operation, storing a record indicating the contribution level, identifying an occurrence of an event, the event being a micro cloud interaction or encounter with the vehicle member subsequent to completion of the micro cloud operation, determining, based at least in part on the record indicating the contribution level, a reciprocal task that benefits the vehicle member, and executing the reciprocal task during the event.

Energy attenuation stabilizers and methods
Patent No. 11459085

Inventor(s): Eric Sinusas (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Pramudji Law Group PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16399936 on 04/30/2019 (1253 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a stabilizer of an aircraft includes an energy attenuating portion. The energy attenuating portion includes first and second edge sections separated by an adaptable section. The adaptable section may be rigid in a first range of directions and compressible in a second range of directions.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Rotor assembly
Patent No. 11459088

Inventor(s): Charles Hubert Speller (Flower Mound, TX), George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, TX), Jonathan Knoll (Burleson, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16590322 on 10/01/2019 (1099 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotor assembly configured to increase the stiffness of a rotor mast. The rotor assembly includes the rotor mast, a rotor hub, a mast nut, a mast bearing, and a cuff disposed between the mast nut and the mast bearing. The cuff is captured and compressed between the mast nut and the inner race of the mast bearing along an uninterrupted load path that extends between the mast nut and the mast bearing.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Erosion protection coating with screen
Patent No. 11459097

Inventor(s): Bryan John Huber (Keller, TX), Jared Mark Paulson (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16160121 on 10/15/2018 (1450 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes an apparatus for protecting an aerodynamic surface from erosion including a screen capable of being applied to a leading edge of the aerodynamic surface; and an erosion protection coating applied to the screen before or after the screen is applied to the leading edge, wherein the erosion protection coating protects the aerodynamic surface from erosion.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

M-wing aircraft having VTOL and biplane orientations
Patent No. 11459099

Inventor(s): John Richard McCullough (Weatherford, TX), Paul K. Oldroyd (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16413572 on 05/15/2019 (1238 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft has a vertical takeoff and landing fight mode and a forward flight mode. The aircraft includes an airframe with first and second M-wings having first and second pylons extending therebetween, each M-wing forming a pair of leading apexes with swept forward and swept back portions extending therefrom at a swept angle. A propulsion system includes a plurality of propulsion assemblies each attached to the airframe proximate one of the leading apexes. Each of the propulsion assemblies includes a rotor assembly having a tilting degree of freedom. A flight control system is operable to control the propulsion assemblies including tilting the rotor assemblies to generate variable thrust vectors. In the vertical takeoff and landing fight mode, the aircraft operates responsive to thrust-borne lift from the propulsion system. In the forward flight mode, the aircraft operates responsive to wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Shipping container for rolled goods
Patent No. 11459153

Inventor(s): Brandon J. Lee (Chanhassen, MN)
Assignee(s): Poly-America, L.P. (Grand Prairie, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17477141 on 09/16/2021 (383 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shipping container for rolled goods, particularly relatively heavy and rigid rolled products such as high count rolls of trash bags. In at least one embodiment, the shipping container may be used for shipping a product enclosure containing a pair of rolled trash bags. The shipping container can include a pair of opposing side reinforcing trays to prevent damage to the shipping container when in transit. The invention can conserve the amount of materials used and reduce the shipping weight of the container. The shipping container can further include a flexible overwrap to maintain the reinforcement trays on the opposing side ends of the product enclosure and to provide for additional reinforcement to the shipping container.

[B65D] CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES

Pneumatic transport system including pharmaceutical transport cleaner having a rotatable band and related methods
Patent No. 11459185

Inventor(s): Jared O. Santibanez (Forney, TX)
Assignee(s): INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC. (Ft. Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17313411 on 05/06/2021 (516 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pharmaceutical transport system may include a pneumatic tube network and a pharmaceutical transport cleaner. The pharmaceutical transport cleaner may include a cylindrical body, and a rotatable cleaning band extending around the cylindrical body to contact and clean adjacent portions of the pneumatic tube network as the cylindrical body moves through the pneumatic tube network.

[B65G] TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable or mobile lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F 9/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C 9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D)

Systems and methods for managing refueling interactions
Patent No. 11459225

Inventor(s): Jacquelyn Birdsall (Pasadena, CA), Takehito Yokoo (Aliso Viejo, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16706168 on 12/06/2019 (1033 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to controlling a fuel dispenser. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a fuel dispenser includes broadcasting a pairing signal to a vehicle, receiving, from the vehicle, a confirmation signal confirming completion of a pairing process between the fuel dispenser and the vehicle, transmitting, subsequent to the confirmation signal, a disable signal to the vehicle in response to data from one or more proximity sensors indicating that the vehicle is within a threshold range and a determination that the vehicle is refueling, and transmitting an enable signal to the vehicle in response to a determination that the vehicle is no longer refueling. The disable signal disables a moving capability of the vehicle, and the enable signal restores the moving capability of the vehicle.

[B67D] DISPENSING, DELIVERING, OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes B08B 9/02; emptying or filling of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for B67C; water supply E03; pipe systems F17D; domestic hot-water supply systems F24D; measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume G01F; coin-freed or like apparatus G07F) [5]

Breakaway mobile device connection port
Patent No. 11462923

Inventor(s): Angela M. Piculi (Novi, MI), Christopher E. Dragan (Canton, MI), Philip J. Babian (Canton, MI), Travis M. Blais (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16817273 on 03/12/2020 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a breakaway mobile device connection port for a vehicle. The breakaway mobile device connection port includes a socket within a surface of a vehicle, formed by one or more flexible retention members coupled to the surface. The port further includes a ball-type bearing positioned partially within the socket, a female connector positioned in the bearing outside the socket and configured to receive a male connector, and a harness cable coupled to the bearing, linking the female connector to an electrical system or data system of the vehicle. The bearing is configured to swivel on at least one axis within the socket, and an impact force on the male connector that exceeds a first threshold value causes the bearing to be pushed completely into the socket.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

C H E M I S T R Y & M E T A L L U R G Y

Antistatic coating compositions
Patent No. 11459470

Inventor(s): Haipeng Zheng (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15325591 on 07/11/2014 (3007 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described is a curable composition that includes a salt comprising an alkali cation or rare earth metal ion and a counter ion which is the conjugate base of a superacid, a silicon containing binder, and an additive having a formula R1-O[(CH[subscript]2[/subscript]CHR3)-O][subscript]n[/subscript]R2, in which R1 and R2 represent H or an alkyl group, R3 is H or methyl, and n is an integer ranging from 2 to 200. Said composition is typically provided as a coating or hard coating. When cured, the composition provides good antistatic performance on its surface or to a surface on which it is applied. The composition when formed may also provide high optical transparency. The composition when formed exhibits low haze and good mechanical properties, such as good abrasion resistance, or good scratch resistance, or good mar resistance to its surface or to the surface on which it is applied.

[C08K] USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES AS COMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS (paints, inks, varnishes, dyes, polishes, adhesives C09) [2]

Modulation of frataxin expression
Patent No. 11459564

Inventor(s): David Corey (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Carlsbad, CA), THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16956425 on 12/21/2018 (1383 days app to issue)

Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to methods and compounds for increasing FXN. Such methods and compounds are useful for increasing expression of FXN in cells and animals.

[C12N] MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF (biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi, enzymes, fermentates, or substances produced by, or extracted from, microorganisms or animal material A01N 63/00; medicinal preparations A61K; fertilisers C05F); PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q 1/00) [3]

Processes for the production of cannabinoids from a carbon source precursor
Patent No. 11459592

Inventor(s): Brian Chan (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): SYNTIVA THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Baltimore, MD)
Law Firm: Ware, Fressola, Maguire Barber LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17067921 on 10/12/2020 (722 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided for biosynthetic production of cannabinoids in microorganisms from a carbon source precursor. This method describes the genetic modifications needed to engineer microorganisms to produce cannabinoids as well as a method for identifying and quantifying cannabinoids from fermentation broth. A system is also provided for tuning the method to produce different cannabinoids of interest by systematically modulating the enzymes encoded by the genetic modifications introduced in the microorganism.

[C12P] FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE [3]

F I X E D C O N S T R U C T I O N S

Insulated concrete block assembly
Patent No. 11459750

Inventor(s): Nick Manesh (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17241246 on 04/27/2021 (525 days app to issue)

Abstract: An insulated concrete block assembly includes a plurality of blocks is provided and each of the blocks is comprised of a mixture of 60.0 percent Portland cement, 30.0 percent expanded polystyrene foam and 10.0 percent lime. The blocks are stackable on each other to define an exterior wall of a building. A fluid insulation is pourable into each of the voids in each of the blocks when the blocks are stacked, and the fluid insulation is comprised of 70.0 percent polystyrene foam. 25.0 percent Portland cement and 5.0 percent lime. A tensioning cable is provided and a base of the tensioning cable is embedded into a foundation upon which the blocks are stacked. The tensioning cable is tensioned to a pre-determined tension load when the tensioning cable is routed through the voids of the blocks that are stacked.

[E04B] GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings E06B 1/00)

Roof-anchoring systems and methods
Patent No. 11459779

Inventor(s): Flent Ballantyne (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Ballantyne Gear Inc. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16876674 on 05/18/2020 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: Improved roof anchoring system configured as a non-penetrating fall protection system with no nails or screws damaging the roof and including simultaneously used multiple anchoring devices each with a connector pivotally attached to a corresponding axle and each preventing another device from moving away from the roof edge and tensioned with respect to such other device via a common tether. A stopper can be optionally used to keep a given anchoring device in place during installation of the anchoring system.

[E04G] SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR OTHER BUILDING AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS

Hammock and tent assembly
Patent No. 11459789

Inventor(s): Keenan Thomas (Desoto, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17170344 on 02/08/2021 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hammock and tent assembly for viewing the sky includes a frame, a shell, and a hammock. The frame comprises a plurality of segments, which are hingedly interconnected so that the frame is selectively positionable in a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. In the deployed configuration, the frame is substantially cuboid shaped and defines an interior space. In the stowed configuration, the segments are proximally positioned. The hammock is selectively engageable to the frame so that the hammock is suspended therefrom and positioned in the interior space. The shell is selectively positionable over and around the frame and can shelter a user positioned on the hammock. At least a portion of the shell positioned over the top is substantially transparent, thereby allowing the user a view therethrough.

[E04H] BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) [4]

Variable density element retainer for use downhole
Patent No. 11459847

Inventor(s): Christopher Michael Pelto (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16626602 on 02/05/2019 (1337 days app to issue)

Abstract: A single structure usable as a backup shoe or element retainer in a packer assembly for sealing a wellbore can be fabricated using an additive manufacturing process. The single structure can have a high-density region and a low-density region having a density that is lower than the high-density region. The low-density region can be deformable to retain a position of another component downhole in a wellbore, such as an elastomeric element useable to expand to create the packer seal within the annulus of the wellbore. The high-density region can include a ribbed-structure to reduce circumferential force applied to the single structure.

[E21B] EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING (mining, quarrying E21C; making shafts, driving galleries or tunnels E21D); OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS [5]

Multiple port opening method with single pressure activation
Patent No. 11459854

Inventor(s): Maxime Philippe Coffin (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Novak Druce Carroll LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16760529 on 06/25/2019 (1197 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flow control apparatus with a guide housing having one or ports, a breakable bond, and a platform with an upper surface having one or more pistons. The platform and guide housing have a first bonded configuration where the pistons are received in the ports, a breaking configuration, an opening configuration where the platform is movable away from the guide housing, and a misaligned configuration where the platform is displaced with respect to the guide housing. The guide housing has a guide bore and the platform has a guide projection extending into the guide bore. The guide bore has a groove and the guide projection has an extension extending in the groove for transitioning between configurations.

Tubing and annular gas lift
Patent No. 11459860

Inventor(s): William Garrett Archa (Decatur, TX)
Assignee(s): Liberty Lift Solutions, LLC (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: The Kubiak Law Firm, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17162593 on 01/29/2021 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gas lift system may be installed within a well to allow gas lift operations where gas may be injected into the annular area of the well while producing fluids through the interior of the production tubular or upon demand may be reversed so that gas may be injected into the interior of the production tubular while producing fluids to the annular region of the well. In order to allow bidirectional production on demand two types of gas lift mandrels are installed as part of the production tubular. Both types of gas lift mandrels are configured such that gas lift valves are mounted to the exterior of the mandrels. In order to facilitate the desired direction of gas flow through the two types of gas lift mandrels a plug and packer system with or with out one way valves may be utilized to direct and contain the pressurized gas flow within the well.

M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G
LIGHTING | HEATING | WEAPONS | BLASTING

Acoustic absorber for fan noise reduction
Patent No. 11459921

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Hideo Iizuka (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16296403 on 03/08/2019 (1306 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sound suppression assembly is provided for absorbing acoustic energy from an air circulation device. The assembly includes an air circulation device, such as an axial fan, and a plurality of sparsely-arranged two-sided Helmholtz unit cells disposed in a periodic array. Each unit cell includes a lossy resonator and a lossless resonator. The lossy resonator includes a first chamber portion bounded by at least one first boundary wall defining a first chamber volume, and a first neck forming an opening in the first chamber portion. The lossless resonator includes a second chamber portion bounded by at least one second boundary wall defining a second chamber volume, and a second neck forming an opening in the second chamber portion. The unit cells can be positioned in a circular pattern with the first neck of the lossy resonators directed to a source of acoustic energy from the air circulation device.

[F01N] GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in vehicles B60K 13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M 35/00; protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K 11/16)

Variable seal for an engine nacelle
Patent No. 11459949

Inventor(s): Brian Stanley Modrzejewski (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16748331 on 01/21/2020 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first seal and a perforated cover. The first seal may comprise one or more inlet apertures and be located proximate to an opening into an interior of a nacelle. The perforated cover may be slidably engaged with the first seal and configured to vary an amount of air allowed into the interior of the nacelle.

[F02C] GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; combustion apparatus in which combustion takes place in a fluidised bed of fuel or other particles F23C 10/00; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B 11/00; using gas-turbine plants in vehicles, see the relevant vehicle classes)

Actuator for holding an object
Patent No. 11460009

Inventor(s): Brian J. Pinkelman (Ann Arbor, MI), Paul A. Gilmore (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Shardul Singh Panwar (Ann Arbor, MI), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17208105 on 03/22/2021 (561 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods relate to a manner of improving an actuator used to hold an object. In one embodiment, an actuator includes a body that is bi-stable with a coiled state and an uncoiled state. The actuator also includes a strip, coupled to the body, that coils the body according to a power source that activates in response to a detected proximity of an object. The actuator also includes a wire coupled to a side of the body opposite from the strip and the wire uncoils the body in response to heat caused by the power source.

[F03G] SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA, OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER-PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (arrangements in connection with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60K 16/00; electric propulsion with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60L 8/00)

SMC integrated bi-stable strips for remote actuation
Patent No. 11460010

Inventor(s): Brian J. Pinkelman (Ann Arbor, MI), Eric D. Smith (Northville, MI), Mark E. Smith (Fenton, MI), Paul A. Gilmore (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Shardul Singh Panwar (Ann Arbor, MI), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmi
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17216951 on 03/30/2021 (553 days app to issue)

Abstract: A remote actuator includes one or more bi-stable strips with at least one shape memory composite (SMC) spring connected to each bi-stable strip. The SMC spring includes a thermoplastic and an electrical and/or thermal conductor for transforming the length of the SMC spring upon heating. The contraction of the SMC spring transforms the bi-stable strip from its coiled stable state to its elongated stable state. The displacement of the SMC spring can be amplified by a simple machine included in the remote actuator. The remote actuator can include a shape memory alloy (SMA) strip for transforming the bi-stable strip from its elongated stable state to it curved stable state upon heating. Heating can be by Joule heating or from an adjacent heat source.

Method and apparatus for pressure equalization in rotary compressors
Patent No. 11460027

Inventor(s): Brandon Ullrich (Grand Prairie, TX), Wei Wang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17016891 on 09/10/2020 (754 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotary compressor system includes a compressor housing that includes a compressor motor that draws in fluid from a suction side. The fluid is compressed within a compression chamber and discharged through a discharge side. The compression chamber is disposed between the suction side and the discharge side. An overload-protection switch is electrically coupled in series with the compressor motor and is adapted to cut power to the compressor motor responsive to an overload event. A solenoid valve is fluidly coupled between the compression chamber and a location upstream of the suction side and is electrically coupled in series with the overload-protection switch. An interruption of electrical current to the compressor motor also interrupts electrical current to the solenoid valve, which opens the solenoid valve to equalize pressure between the suction side and the discharge side.

[F04C] ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS (engines driven by liquids F03C); ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M)

Apparatus and method for evacuating very large volumes
Patent No. 11460034

Inventor(s): Daniel Kuehlein (Ellerau, , DE), Heiner Koesters (Itzehoe, , DE), Joerg Temming (Itzehoe, , DE), Soenke Siebels (Hamburg, , DE)
Assignee(s): Flowserve Management Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Maine Cernota Rardin (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16675854 on 11/06/2019 (1063 days app to issue)

Abstract: A target volume evacuation system includes a turbo compressor and a vacuum pump, the system being operable in a first configuration to reduce the target volume pressure from ambient to a first intermediate pressure, e.g. between 200 mbar and 50 mbar, and in a second configuration to further reduce the pressure from a second intermediate pressure, e.g. 10 mBar, to a target partial vacuum, e.g. between 0.1 and 1 mbar. The turbo compressor can be driven electrically or by fuel combustion, and can be a conventional or modified turbojet engine. A plurality of turbo compressors can be transitioned from parallel to series operation. The pressure can be reduced from the first to the second intermediate pressure by venting the target volume to a boom-tank volume and/or by configuring the turbo compressor system to provide backing to the vacuum pumping system. The invention is applicable to a hyperloop transport system.

[F04D] NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Mini-dampeners at pump combined with system pulsation dampener
Patent No. 11460140

Inventor(s): John Thomas Rogers (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Performance Pulsation Control, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16730621 on 12/30/2019 (1009 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-pump pump system includes at least two pumps and a system pulsation dampener sized and configured to reduce a magnitude of pressure pulsations within a combined flow output by the at least two pumps, together with at least one mini-dampener coupled between the outlet of one of the pumps and header pipe(s) carrying flow from one of the pumps into the system pulsation dampener, the at least one mini-dampener sized and configured to reduce the magnitude of pressure pulsations over the system pulsation dampener alone. Optionally, a mini-dampener may be coupled between each pump and the system pulsation dampener. A single header pipe may carry combined flow from the at least two pumps into the system pulsation dampener, or separate header pipes may carry individual flows from the pumps into the system pulsation dampener.

[F16L] PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL

Mirror system and method of use
Patent No. 11460187

Inventor(s): Carol Sloan Acosta (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Eldredge Law Firm (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16736435 on 01/07/2020 (1001 days app to issue)

Abstract: A make-up mirror system having a mirror, a LED light system integrated around a circumferential edge of the mirror, a fan integrated around the circumferential edge of the LED light system, and a control system which activates the LED light system and the fan based on user commands.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Avoiding coil freeze in HVAC systems
Patent No. 11460207

Inventor(s): Rakesh Goel (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16580486 on 09/24/2019 (1106 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system includes an evaporator. The evaporator includes a sensor configured to measure a property value (i.e., a saturated suction temperature or a saturated suction pressure) associated with saturated refrigerant flowing through the evaporator. The system includes a variable-speed compressor configured to receive the refrigerant and compress the received refrigerant. The system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor and the variable-speed compressor. The controller monitors the property value measured by the sensor and detects a system fault, based on the monitored property value. In response to detecting the system fault, the controller operates the compressor in a freeze-prevention mode, which is configured to maintain the property value above a setpoint value by adjusting a speed of the variable-speed compressor. This prevents or delays freezing of the evaporator during operation of the system during the detected system fault.

[F24F] AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING (removing dirt or fumes from areas where they are produced B08B 15/00; vertical ducts for carrying away waste gases from buildings E04F 17/02; tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts, terminals for flues F23L 17/02)

Detonation interrupt device
Patent No. 11460281

Inventor(s): Cameron Scott Badii (Fort Worth, TX), Jason Cook (Crowley, TX), Nicholas Peter LeClair (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17017156 on 09/10/2020 (754 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a detonation interrupt device. The detonation interrupt device, in one aspect, includes a first detonation train member positioned within a housing, and a mechanical member positioned proximate the first detonation train member. In this aspect, the mechanical member is movable between a first position physically separating the first detonation train member from a second detonation train member and thereby preventing the first detonation train member from detonating the second detonation train member, and a second position not physically separating the first detonation train member from the second detonation train member and thereby allowing the first detonation train member to detonate the second detonation train member, wherein the mechanical member is configured to automatically move from the first position to the second position as the housing and the second detonation train member move linearly with respect to each other.

[F42C] AMMUNITION FUZES (blasting cartridge initiators F42B 3/10; chemical aspects C06C); ARMING OR SAFETY MEANS THEREFOR (filling fuzes F42B 33/02; fitting or extracting primers in or from fuzes F42B 33/04; containers for fuzes F42B 39/30) [5]

Coupler and methods of use for assessment of refrigeration systems
Patent No. 11460366

Inventor(s): Kenneth Alan Pistone (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Energizer Auto, Inc. (St. Louis, MO)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 14790168 on 07/02/2015 (2651 days app to issue)

Abstract: A refrigeration servicing system includes an apparatus and user equipment in electronic communication with the apparatus. The apparatus includes a body having a first end and a second end, wherein a passage extends within the body from the first end to the second end. A recess is formed within the body at the second end. The body comprises an inlet at the first end configured to directly engage with a portion of the refrigeration system, a conduit in fluid communication with the inlet, and a plunger. The conduit and plunger are each positioned in the passage. The apparatus also includes a housing at least partially positioned in the recess and in fluid communication with the conduit. The housing includes a sensor configured to directly contact the fluid and measure a parameter of the fluid. A method of servicing a refrigeration system is also provided.

[F25D] REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT COVERED BY ANY OTHER SUBCLASS (refrigerated showcases A47F 3/04; thermally-insulated vessels for domestic use A47J 41/00; refrigerated vehicles, see the appropriate subclasses of classes B60-B64; containers with thermal insulation in general B65D 81/38; heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials, e.g. refrigerants, or materials for the production of heat or cold by chemical reactions other than by combustion C09K 5/00; thermally-insulated vessels for liquefied or solidified gases F17C; air-conditioning or air-humidification F24F; refrigeration machines, plants, or systems F25B; cooling of instruments or comparable apparatus without refrigeration G12B; cooling of engines or pumps, see the relevant classes)

P H Y S I C S

Life vest container device
Patent No. 11459108

Inventor(s): Martin Roderwald (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): RECARO Aircraft Seating GmbH Co. KG (Schwbisch Hall, , DE)
Law Firm: Posz Law Group, PLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16598085 on 10/10/2019 (1090 days app to issue)

Abstract: It is proposed that the monitoring device is at least configured to capture a change of at least one characteristic via at least one electric and/or electronic signal.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

System and method utilizing a smart camera to locate enemy and friendly forces
Patent No. 11460270

Inventor(s): George Carter (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17533508 on 11/23/2021 (315 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tactical awareness system. The system includes a plurality of soldiers affiliated with a friendly force, where each soldier has a man-worn computer, a Global Positioning System (GPS) device for determining a location of the soldier, and a smart camera for capturing an image. The plurality of soldiers communicates wirelessly with each other via a network. The location of each soldier is distributed to all soldiers affiliated with the friendly force via the network. The smart camera captures an image when activated by one of the plurality of soldiers and a target image recognition module is used for determining if an enemy or friendly force is identified in a captured image by the smart camera. Furthermore, each smart camera includes a Camera Orientation Module (COM) for obtaining the orientation relative to a known three-dimensional coordinate system of the smart camera.

[G06G] ANALOGUE COMPUTERS (analogue optical computing devices G06E 3/00; computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Flexible printed pressure transducer with sensor diffusion stack materials and methods incorporating the same
Patent No. 11460362

Inventor(s): Benjamin D. Atkinson (Lexington, KY), Caleb M. Rogers (Lexington, KY), Tyler Flood (Stamping Ground, KY)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16519594 on 07/23/2019 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable sensing apparatus includes an attachment mechanism to secure the portable sensing apparatus to an object, a communications module and a flexible sensor communicatively coupled to the communications module. The flexible sensor is configured to mechanically deform in accordance with a shape of the object and includes a pair of diffusion layers disposed between a pair of contact layers that distribute the force received along outer surfaces of the flexible sensor across the diffusion layers. The flexible sensor includes a sensing layer disposed between the diffusion layers. The diffusion layers normalize the force received from the contact layers across the sensing layer. The sensing layer receives the force at a plurality of locations across a surface area of the sensing layer to determine a resultant pressure applied to the flexible sensor, and the communications module transmits an electrical signal indicative of the resultant pressure to an external device.

[G01L] MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE (weighing G01G) [4]

Dynamic IQ mismatch correction in FMCW radar
Patent No. 11460540

Inventor(s): Karthik Ramasubramanian (Karnataka, , IN), Pankaj Gupta (Rajasthan, , IN), Sriram Murali (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16208276 on 12/03/2018 (1401 days app to issue)

Abstract: A FMCW radar receiver includes a LO providing a chirped LO signal, an in-phase (I) channel for outputting I-data and a quadrature (Q) channel for outputting Q-data. A dynamic correction parameter generator generates IQ phase correction values (P[n]s) and IQ gain correction values (G[n]s) based on a frequency slope rate of the chirped LO signal for generating during intervals of chirps including a first sequence of P[n]s and G[n]s during a first chirp and a second sequence of P[n]s and G[n]s during a second chirp. An IQ mismatch (IQMM) correction circuit has a first IQMM input coupled to receive the I-data and a second IQMM input receiving the Q-data, and the P[n]s and G[n]s. During the first chirp the IQMM correction circuit provides first Q-data and first I-data and during the second chirp the IQMM correction circuit provides at least second Q-data and second I-data.

[G01S] RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

Failure detection in a radar system
Patent No. 11460543

Inventor(s): Jasbir Singh Nayyar (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Ramasubramanian (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16836836 on 03/31/2020 (917 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radar system is provided that includes a receive channel including a complex baseband and a processor coupled to the receive channel to receive a first plurality of digital intermediate frequency (IF) samples from an in-band (I) channel of the complex baseband and a corresponding second plurality of digital IF samples from a quadrature (Q) channel of the complex baseband, wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions to compute at least one failure metric based on the first plurality of digital IF samples and the second plurality of digital IF samples.

Virtual array method for 3D robotic vision
Patent No. 11460551

Inventor(s): Baher Haroun (Allen, TX), David Magee (Allen, TX), Nirmal C. Warke (Saratoga, CA), Rahmi Hezar (Allen, TX), Srinath Ramaswamy (Murphy, TX), Ting Li (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16287411 on 02/27/2019 (1315 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pulsed light source illuminates a scene with a virtual array of points. Light reflected by the scene is detected by a small pixel array, allowing generation of a three-dimensional map of the scene. A processing element processing data output by the small pixel array uses a multipath resolution algorithm to resolve individual objects in the scene.

Memory controller with programmable atomic operations
Patent No. 11461048

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Gamburd Law Group LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17128862 on 12/21/2020 (652 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory controller circuit is disclosed which is coupleable to a first memory circuit, such as DRAM, and includes: a first memory control circuit to read from or write to the first memory circuit; a second memory circuit, such as SRAM; a second memory control circuit adapted to read from the second memory circuit in response to a read request when the requested data is stored in the second memory circuit, and otherwise to transfer the read request to the first memory control circuit; predetermined atomic operations circuitry; and programmable atomic operations circuitry adapted to perform at least one programmable atomic operation. The second memory control circuit also transfers a received programmable atomic operation request to the programmable atomic operations circuitry and sets a hazard bit for a cache line of the second memory circuit.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Configurable interface for customized job deployment
Patent No. 11461083

Inventor(s): Mohammad Nejad (Dallas, TX), Nadeem Panjwani (Dallas, TX), Rudolph D. Hoffman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17161812 on 01/29/2021 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods may include methods for enabling customized jobs deployment in Autosys. The method may include staging, in a staging area set forth in a visible display, a job script for deployment in Autosys. The method may include providing a verification of the deployment of the job script in Autosys. The method may include visually indicating, on a status line, whether the job script has been deployed in Autosys or is set to be deployed to, and executed in, Autosys. The method may include, following an attempt to deploy from the staging area, displaying either a complete job execution of the job script in Autosys of the deployed job or a failed job execution of the job script in Autosys of the deployed job.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Transport sensor data update
Patent No. 11461087

Inventor(s): Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr. (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16805310 on 02/28/2020 (949 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a transport, a difference between sensor data associated with a location outside the transport and data stored on the transport and updating, by the transport, the data stored on the transport with the difference.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and apparatus for vector sorting using vector permutation logic
Patent No. 11461096

Inventor(s): Mujibur Rahman (Plano, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16589126 on 09/30/2019 (1100 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for sorting of a vector in a processor is provided that includes performing, by the processor in response to a vector sort instruction, generating a control input vector for vector permutation logic comprised in the processor based on values in lanes of the vector and a sort order for the vector indicated by the vector sort instruction and storing the control input vector in a storage location.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Programmable event testing
Patent No. 11461106

Inventor(s): Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17079074 on 10/23/2020 (711 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes executing software code comprising a plurality of execute packets; responsive to an execute packet of the software code being executed by a data processor core, advancing a value of a test counter register; and responsive to the value of the test counter register being equal to a terminal value, triggering an event to be handled by the software code.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Pipeline arbitration
Patent No. 11461127

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16882321 on 05/22/2020 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first stage in a pipeline, a first transaction from a previous stage in pipeline; in response to first transaction comprising a high priority transaction, processing high priority transaction by sending high priority transaction to a buffer; receiving a second transaction from previous stage; in response to second transaction comprising a low priority transaction, processing low priority transaction by monitoring a full signal from buffer while sending low priority transaction to buffer; in response to full signal asserted and no high priority transaction being available from previous stage, pausing processing of low priority transaction; in response to full signal asserted and a high priority transaction being available from previous stage, stopping processing of low priority transaction and processing high priority transaction; and in response to full signal being de-asserted, processing low priority transaction by sending low priority transaction to buffer.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Event processing
Patent No. 11461185

Inventor(s): Sunil Kaitha (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16848179 on 04/14/2020 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: An event processing system may identify duplicate events and prevent one or more of the duplicate events from being processed. The event processing system may determine the duplicate events, which are not permitted to be processed more than once, and allow these duplicate events to be processed exactly once. The event processing system may allow events, which are permitted to be processed more than once, to be processed without determining whether the events are duplicate events. If a main data center of the event processing system fails, a backup data center may take over instantly event processing from the main data center and may prevent events that have been processed by the main data center from being processed. Multiple data centers may work together and process events in an active-active mode by offering the exactly once processing as well as removing any duplicate events from upstream systems.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and system for provisioning workflows with data management services
Patent No. 11461211

Inventor(s): William Jeffery White (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams Aughtry (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17236744 on 04/21/2021 (531 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows with data management services. The method may include receiving, at a service controller of a federated controller, a request to deploy a workflow in a device ecosystem; decomposing the workflow into a plurality of workflow portions; assigning, based on identifying a first platform controller, a first workflow portion to the first platform controller; assigning, based on identifying a second platform controller, a second workflow portion to the second platform controller; assigning, based on the plurality of workflow portions and a capabilities and constraints data construct, data management services to the first platform controller and the second platform controller; and initiating performance of the first workflow portion by the first platform controller and the second workflow portion by the second platform controller, in which performing the first workflow portion and the second workflow portion includes performing the data management services.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Methods and apparatus for allocation in a victim cache system
Patent No. 11461236

Inventor(s): Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Pete Michael Hippleheuser (Murphy, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16882244 on 05/22/2020 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for allocation in a victim cache system. An example apparatus includes a first cache storage, a second cache storage, a cache controller coupled to the first cache storage and the second cache storage and operable to receive a memory operation that specifies an address, determine, based on the address, that the memory operation evicts a first set of data from the first cache storage, determine that the first set of data is unmodified relative to an extended memory, and cause the first set of data to be stored in the second cache storage.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Large scale unstructured database systems
Patent No. 11461356

Inventor(s): Craig Geppert Wilson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MongoDB, Inc. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Wolf, Greenfield Sacks, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16895340 on 06/08/2020 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide techniques for on-demand access to object data hosted in distributed object storage. A query is received for the distributed object storage database, wherein the distributed object storage database includes first object data stored in a first data center at a first geographical location, and second object data stored in a second data center at a second geographical location. It is determined that the query is for at least a portion of the first object data stored by the first data center. The query is transmitted to a first computing device in the first data center. Results are received from the first computing device for the query, and the results are provided in response to the received query.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Data conversion bulk validation automated framework
Patent No. 11461357

Inventor(s): Howard Bagg (Richardson, TX), Justin Charles Taylor (Plano, TX), Mathangi Pichai (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16937187 on 07/23/2020 (803 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for automating bulk data conversion processes of one or more database management systems. Data conversion projects of focus may comprise conversion of a large bulk of data with a wide range in order of magnitude. The system is designed and driven by the present constraints of large data conversion and is based on principles of reviewability, minimization of manual review and development work, persistence of data stores for data result comparison, process optimization for downstream review and certification, timely execution, and allowance for concurrent development by multiple systems and resources.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

System and method for data pruning via dynamic partition management
Patent No. 11461366

Inventor(s): Robert McKinley Collins, Jr. (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17506283 on 10/20/2021 (349 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for managing data lifecycles that can provide an adaptable data management system configured to optimize the lifecycles of data and the reliability of databases. The system can provide data management systems with the ability to attach, detach, and drop segments of data based on key partitions of the data objects to optimize database utilization. By including the key partitions to the data objects, the database including the data objects can now perform data management operations based on the key partitions. The system, based on the key partitions, can identify a location of the data object to attach row entries, detach row entries from the existing tables, and delete the detached row entries from the database altogether. The system can operate on any relational database management system.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Using artificial intelligence and natural language processing for data collection in message oriented middleware frameworks
Patent No. 11461400

Inventor(s): Kannappan Ramu (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16735933 on 01/07/2020 (1001 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving a natural language query requesting data from a message oriented middleware infrastructure comprising a plurality of message oriented middleware providers, and analyzing the natural language query to determine one or more types of the data being requested. In the method, one or more stored queries corresponding to the determined one or more types of the data are identified. The one or more stored queries are in native command formats corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of message oriented middleware providers. The method also includes executing the identified one or more stored queries in the native command formats to retrieve the data from the plurality of message oriented middleware providers, and providing a response to the natural language query based on the retrieved data to a user via a user interface.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and system for digital record verification
Patent No. 11461425

Inventor(s): Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Sullivan (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): Digital Seat Media, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Vos-IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17645616 on 12/22/2021 (286 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed that enable a mobile device to use an encoded tag to initiate and maintain communications with at least one remote server. The encoded tag is positioned to identify a point of interest, and in response to using the mobile device to scan the encoded tag, communications regarding the point of interest may be initiated. A single encoded tag may be used to obtain and update recorded information about the point of interest, to notify others about an issue related to the point of interest, to log into the system, and to wait to be alerted about an issue related to the point of interest. If an issue relating to a point of interest has been reported, the system and method may monitor the reported issue to ensure that an action has been taken to address the reported issue.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and system for digital record verification
Patent No. 11461426

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Configurable short locators
Patent No. 11461427

Inventor(s): Gary Alan Rainwater (McKinney, TX), Jonathan Michael Devlin (Richardson, TX), Joseph Kessler (Melissa, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16869124 on 05/07/2020 (880 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for using parameters with shortened resource locators to access a resource are provided. A short resource locator is associated with a full resource locator template in a resource locator association datastore. Parameters provided with the short resource locator are used to replace one or more parameter identifiers within a full resource locator template to generate a full resource locator. The full resource locator is used to access a resource.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Echoprint user authentication
Patent No. 11461447

Inventor(s): Changzhu Li (Beijing, , CN), Shuang Wu (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17104532 on 11/25/2020 (678 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device and method providing audio-based, continuous authentication of a user to provide access to a processing device. A user echoprint model is created while a user interacts with an authentication interface for another authentication method of the device, transparently to the user. The sound waves are user-specific and inaudible. The user-specific sounds are reflected by the user and used to construct an echoprint which can be compared by a previously constructed user-specific, echoprint model. If the result is positive, access to the processing device may be allowed. Access to the processing device is based on the audio authentication or the alternative authentication is based on the result of audio authentication and updates a device state indicating whether the display is on or off and whether the device is locked or unlocked.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Interface for data communication between chiplets or other integrated circuits on an interposer
Patent No. 11461527

Abstract: A representative system, apparatus, method and protocol are disclosed for data communication between chiplets or SOCs on a common interposer. A representative system comprises: an interposer; a first integrated circuit arranged on the interposer, the first integrated circuit comprising a first common protocol interface circuit; a communication link coupled to the first common protocol interface circuit; and a second integrated circuit arranged on the interposer, the second integrated circuit comprising a second common protocol interface circuit coupled to the communication link to form a serial protocol interface between the first common protocol interface circuit and the second common protocol interface circuit. Serial data and control packets and parallel data and control packets having specified, ordered fields are also disclosed.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Methods and systems for generating composite image descriptors
Patent No. 11461578

Inventor(s): Vinaya Kumar Polavarapu (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17167846 on 02/04/2021 (607 days app to issue)

Abstract: An illustrative image descriptor generation system generates a descriptor listing that includes a plurality of image descriptors corresponding to different feature points included within an image. Based on the descriptor listing, the system generates a geometric map representing the plurality of image descriptors in accordance with respective geometric positions of the corresponding feature points of the image descriptors within the image. Based on the geometric map, the system determines a proximity listing for a primary image descriptor within the plurality of image descriptors. The proximity listing indicates a subset of image descriptors that are geometrically proximate to the primary image descriptor within the image. Based on the proximity listing, the system selects a secondary image descriptor from the subset of image descriptors and combines the primary and secondary image descriptors to form a composite image descriptor. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

System and method for RFID enabling, tagging, and tracking items needing to be preserved in a cryogenic state
Patent No. 11461611

Inventor(s): Douglas Bourque (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16229991 on 12/21/2018 (1383 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method which provides RFID enabling for cryo-vials and other cryogenic items is disclosed. The system and method is a two part method wherein first each vial is individually RFID tagged and then a plurality of tagged vials are secured into a cane. The second part comprises creating an RFID tag and attaching the tag to the top of the cane of vials. The individual RFID tags on the vials are then associated with the RFID tag on the cane.

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

Multi-bit, SoC-compatible neuromorphic weight cell using ferroelectric FETs
Patent No. 11461620

Inventor(s): Mark S. Rodder (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15806259 on 11/07/2017 (1792 days app to issue)

Abstract: A neuromorphic multi-bit digital weight cell configured to store a series of potential weights for a neuron in an artificial neural network. The neuromorphic multi-bit digital weight cell includes a parallel cell including a series of passive resistors in parallel and a series of gating transistors. Each gating transistor of the series of gating transistors is in series with one passive resistor of the series of passive resistors. The neuromorphic cell also includes a series of programming input lines connected to the series of gating transistors, an input terminal connected to the parallel cell, and an output terminal connected to the parallel cell.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Systems and methods for training machine learning models
Patent No. 11461646

Inventor(s): Esmat Zare (Frisco, TX), Wayne Decesaris (Frisco, TX), Yasong Zhou (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16705143 on 12/05/2019 (1034 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for repeated holdout validation include collecting independent data representing independent variables; collecting dependent data representing a dependent variable; correlating the independent data with the dependent data; creating a data set comprising the correlated independent and dependent data; generating a plurality of unique seeds; creating a plurality of training sets and a plurality of validation sets; associating each training set with a single validation set; training the neural network a plurality of times with the training sets and seeds to create a plurality of models; calculating accuracy metric values for the models using the validation sets associated with the training sets used to create respective models; performing a statistical analysis of the accuracy metric values; and ranking the independent variables by a strength of correlation of individual independent variables with the dependent variable, when a metric of the statistical analysis exceeds a threshold.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Network-based work assignment platform
Patent No. 11461710

Inventor(s): Diana Graciela Villarreal Garca (Carrollton, TX), Jan Zajicek (Irving, TX), Jennifer Lynn Martinez (Bedford, TX), Jesse Vaughn, Jr. (Frisco, TX), Leon Hart Baker (Euless, TX), Phedra Lee Kinsel (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): NCR Corporation (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Schwegman, Lundberg Woessner (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16845792 on 04/10/2020 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network-based work assignment platform is provided. Employers and workers are registered on the platform. A registered employer posts a temporary job on the platform. The platform matches a registered worker to the temporary job. The platform facilitates, coordinates, and monitors performance of the temporary job by the registered worker and processes payment to the registered worker for performance of the temporary job on behalf of the registered employer.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

Multi-tiered digital wallet security
Patent No. 11461769

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16587787 on 09/30/2019 (1100 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for facilitating multi-tiered digital wallet security are described herein. In some arrangements, a computing platform configured to operate within one or more decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks may provide a digital wallet interface to a user computing device. Through the digital wallet interface, a user of the user computing device may be able to partition digital currency holdings into one or more differentiated storage compartments or tiers. Each of the one or more compartments may be password secured and may only permit access to the amount of digital currency holdings specified by the user. The user of the user computing device may enter a password corresponding to a compartment and the computing platform may provide access to the compartment based on the provided password. E.g., successive tiers may provide successively more limited (or enhanced) access to available funds, permissions, and the like.

Rewards for non-residents associated with controlled-environment facility residents
Patent No. 11461800

Inventor(s): Amit Kumar Shrivastava (Montral, , CA), Isaac Parampottil (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Securus Technologies, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17127456 on 12/18/2020 (655 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods reward non-residents associated with a controlled-environment facility resident for good behaviors related to electronic communications with a controlled-environment facility resident. One or more controlled-environment facility associated computer systems, or the like, maintain a non-resident electronic communications behavior evaluation system, monitor and/or track a non-resident”s behaviors with respect to electronic communications with a controlled-environment facility resident and analyze the non-resident behavior with respect to the electronic communications with the resident. The one or more controlled-environment facility associated computer systems, or the like, may provide rewards to the non-resident for use toward electronic communications with the controlled-environment facility resident, or the like, based on good behavior determined by the analysis of the non-resident behavior with respect to the electronic communications with the resident.

Multi-lender platform that securely stores proprietary information for pre-qualifying an applicant
Patent No. 11461843

Inventor(s): Alan Ilango (Mckinney, TX), Alex Baird (Carrollton, TX), Dinesh Sundaram (Plano, TX), Jacob Creech (Mckinney, TX), Jacques Morel (Colleyville, TX), Rajaboopathy Vijayaraghavan (Carrollton, TX), Raman Bajaj (Frisco, TX
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16881897 on 05/22/2020 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system and methods described herein allow users to apply for a purchase of a good from multiple providers using provider specific methodologies for generating offers for the product. For example, the system described herein may include a multi-layer architecture that includes interactive micro-services that communicate together in a bi-directional manner to create a normalized process for the purchase of a good, such as commercial goods/products (e.g. a vehicle) or real property. The micro-services may assess prequalification for a loan or financing for a good, followed by determining eligibility of the good for financing, and further followed by calculating pricing details for loans (e.g. for financing purchase of the good) that would be offered for a consumer”s particular financial credentials, for each of a plurality of lenders. Prequalification and pricing may be performed on a good by good basis, or for a plurality of goods near or substantially simultaneously.

Decision-making rules for attribute smoothing
Patent No. 11461933

Inventor(s): Hossein Najaf-Zadeh (Allen, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17033508 on 09/25/2020 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for point cloud decoding includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding the bitstream into multiple frames that include pixels. A portion of the pixels are organized into patches and correspond to respective clusters of points of a 3D point cloud. The method further includes decoding, from the bitstream, an occupancy map frame. The occupancy map frame indicates the portion of the pixels included in the multiple frames that represent the points of the 3D point cloud. In addition, the method includes reconstructing the 3D point cloud using the multiple frames and the occupancy map frame. The method also includes determining whether to perform smoothing to the 3D point cloud based at least in part on properties of the multiple frames. Based on determining to perform the smoothing, the method includes performing the smoothing to the 3D point cloud.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Methods and systems for providing a tutorial for graphic manipulation of objects including real-time scanning in an augmented reality
Patent No. 11461980

Inventor(s): Daniel Martinez (Plano, TX), Jonathan Castaneda (Plano, TX), Stewart Youngblood (Allen, TX), Victoria Blacksher (Plano, TX), William Hardin (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner, L.L.P. (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16911803 on 06/25/2020 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device including a storage medium storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the stored instructions to perform operations is provided. The operations include displaying on a display screen an interactive scene containing an augmented reality element, receiving input to change display of the interactive scene, and receiving a request to simulate the capturing of image data representing the interactive scene. The operations further include determining a position of the augmented reality element relative to a region defined on the display screen, simulating the capturing of the image data representing the interactive scene, and providing, based on the determined position, an indication of whether the simulation has succeeded.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Textile matching using color and pattern recognition and methods of use
Patent No. 11462001

Inventor(s): Andrs Kalecz-Simon (Budapest, , HU), Bin Jin (Tumen, , CN), Peter Hussami (Debrecen, , HU), Terrence A. Carroll (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): MYDIMODA, INC. (The Colony, TX)
Law Firm: Franklin Associates International Inc (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16664864 on 10/27/2019 (1073 days app to issue)

Abstract: Textile matching using color and pattern recognition and methods of use are provided herein. An example method includes analyzing an image ([b]305[/b]) of a first article of clothing to obtain color information and pattern information ([b]205[/b]-[b]230[/b]), comparing the color information and pattern information of the first article of clothing to color information and pattern information for a plurality of other articles of clothing (using Bayesian probability analysis to determine matched pairs, and providing a user with wardrobe suggestions using the matched pairs ([b]705[/b]-[b]740[/b]).

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

Granting access to a secured area via a door and based on a travel document
Patent No. 11462068

Inventor(s): Alyson Jones (Fort Worth, TX), John Praveen Caleb Francis (Fort Worth, TX), Krishna Reddy Jeereddy (Flower Mound, TX), Venkatasubramanian Ganesan (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16774570 on 01/28/2020 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a door that selectively grants access to a secured area from a first area and a scanner accessible from the first area that is configured to read a scannable code of a travel document, such as a boarding pass, to identify travel details of a user and user details that are represented by the scannable code. The system also includes a converter in communication with the scanner, with the converter being configured to generate a first access key code based on the identified travel details and the identified user details. The system also includes a control panel in communication with the converter, with the control panel being configured to grant access to the secured area via the door in response to a comparison of the first access key code to a registered access key code.

[G07C] TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE (identification of persons A61B 5/117; indicating or recording apparatus for measuring in general, analogous apparatus but in which the input is not a variable to be measured, e.g. a hand operation, G01D; clocks, clock mechanisms G04B, G04C; time-interval measuring G04F; counting mechanisms per se G06M)

Controlling an electronic gaming machine to provide a bonus feature opportunity
Patent No. 11462077

Inventor(s): Arlen Avakian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited (North Ryde, , AU)
Law Firm: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16948846 on 10/02/2020 (732 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic gaming machine (EGM) may present first visual effects on a display system, including game play items, corresponding to one or more instances of a base game and determining instances of game play items that correspond to feature credits towards an automatic award of a feature comprising one or more bonus games. The EGM may present second visual effects corresponding to an accumulation of feature credits towards the automatic award of the feature, receive an indication of a player”s initiation of an attempt to trigger an award of the feature, at a time during which less than a number of feature credits necessary for an automatic award of the feature has been accumulated, determine whether an award of the feature will be triggered and control the display system to present third visual effects corresponding to whether an award of the feature has been triggered.

[G07F] COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D 3/00; coin testing G07D 5/00) [7]

Vehicle automation-connected pedestrian risk assessment device
Patent No. 11462113

Inventor(s): Benjamin P. Austin (Saline, MI), John K. Lenneman (Okemos, MI), Joshua E. Domeyer (Madison, WI), Philip Babian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17081169 on 10/27/2020 (707 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for alerting a pedestrian of the density of automated vehicles to non-automated vehicles in an area by broadcasting a visual signal representing a group mode status of automated vehicles travelling towards or within a roadway intersection. The group mode status may be broadcast as a percentage of automated vehicles to total vehicles or can be broadcast as a ratio of automated vehicles to non-automated vehicles on an external mode indicator of a subject automated vehicle. The visual signal may be broadcast as a pattern of lighting, a change in light intensity, a change in colors or a change in text. The group mode status may also be broadcast to a pedestrian equipped with a wireless device via vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. The group status may also be broadcast to and displayed on infrastructure component, such as a street light, display post, crosswalk sign, or building display configured to receive signals.

[G08G] TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S 13/91, G01S 15/88, G01S 17/88; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S 13/93, G01S 15/93, G01S 17/93; control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, not being specific to a traffic environment G05D 1/00) [2]

Spectral smoothing method for noise reduction
Patent No. 11462231

Inventor(s): Nikhil Shankar (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: Pierce Atwood LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16951175 on 11/18/2020 (685 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system configured to perform low input-output latency noise reduction in a frequency domain is provided. The real-time noise reduction algorithm performs frame by frame processing of a single-channel noisy acoustic signal to estimate a gain function. Accurate noise power estimates are achieved with the help of minimum statistics approach followed by a voice activity detector. The noise power and gain values are smoothed to remove any external artifacts and avoid background noise modulations. The gain values for individual frequency bands are weighted and smoothed to reduce distortion. To obtain distortionless output speech, the system performs curve fitting by separating the frequency bands into multiple groups and applying a Savitzky-Golay filter to each group. The final gain values generated by these filters are multiplied with the noisy speech signal to obtain a clean speech signal.

[G10L] SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING [4]

Apparatus with data-rate-based voltage control mechanism and methods for operating the same
Patent No. 11462254

Inventor(s): Gary L. Howe (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17094731 on 11/10/2020 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to voltage management of memory apparatuses/systems are described. The memory device can include circuitry configured to determine an operating frequency of a clock signal for an ongoing or an upcoming memory operation. The memory device may generate a control indicator for increasing a system voltage for higher operating frequencies, for decreasing the system voltage for lower operating frequencies, or a combination thereof.

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

System and method for fleet driver biometric tracking
Patent No. 11462301

Inventor(s): Austin Green (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BLYNCSYNC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Broken Arrow, OK)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15615005 on 06/06/2017 (1946 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for employee biometric tracking is provided. The method comprises providing to a user a plurality of wearable devices capable of being connected to the user, establishing a wireless connection between the plurality of wearable devices and a mobile device, collecting by the plurality of wearable devices a plurality of biometric data from the user, receiving by an application stored on the mobile device the plurality of biometric data, inputting into a predictive engine biometric data selected from the plurality of biometric data, determining by the predictive engine in response to the biometric data whether the user is at, or soon will be at, an alert level, creating an alert signal, and displaying the alert signal to the user. NULL

Medication inventory system including mobile device based missing medication determination and related methods
Patent No. 11462312

Inventor(s): Jared O. Santibanez (Forney, TX), Justin A. Krull (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC. (Ft. Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16704573 on 12/05/2019 (1034 days app to issue)

Abstract: A medication inventory system may include a medication tray that includes compartments for storing respective medications with each medication having a respective medication identifier associated therewith. The medication tray may have a tray identifier associated therewith. The medication inventory system may also include a mobile wireless communications device configured to obtain images of the medication tray and generate a current medication stocking list of the medication tray from the images. The medication inventory system may also be configured to determine a desired medication stocking list for the medication tray based upon the tray identifier and determine at least one missing medication based upon the current medication stocking list and the desired medication stocking list. NULL

Topology-aware controller associations in software-defined networks
Patent No. 11463313

Inventor(s): Jingjing Zhang (Plano, TX), Liurong Qian (Plano, TX), Wei Wei (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16865823 on 05/04/2020 (883 days app to issue)

Abstract: Control plane management based on physical topology of nodes in software-defined networks (SDNs) is provided. Nodes in an SDN are organized into a plurality of node clusters. A cluster of nodes in an SDN is formed and control plane management for the nodes within the cluster is provided. A topology-aware assignment of nodes to controllers in an SDN is provided. Related nodes such as root and corresponding child nodes are assigned to a single cluster in one embodiment to lessen the impacts of controller failure. The assignment of nodes to controllers is also provided based on minimizing traffic between node clusters and between nodes and external networks.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Secure bearer-sensitive authentication and digital object transmission system and method for spoof prevention
Patent No. 11463433

Inventor(s): Arpitha Chiruvolu (Plano, TX), Girish Chiruvolu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16707072 on 12/09/2019 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: An authentication system for detecting a phishing attack by a Man in Middle (MIM) on an end-user. The system includes a communicating device of the end-user and an authentication server for determining if a MIM (spoofing) or the end-user is communicating with the authentication server. The communicating device includes a bearer sensitive one-time password (BOTP) generator for generating a specific BOTP specifically associated with the communicating device where the BOTP is derived using a unique differentiating observable attribute (UDOA) of the communicating device. The communicating device sends the BOTP to the authentication server which uses the perceived UDOA of the received BOTP and calculates an authenticator server BOTP. The authentication server also determines if the received BOTP matches the BOTP calculated by the authenticating server and terminates/rejects the session if the BOTPs do not match. A similar system and method may be utilized to authenticate a digital object.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Remote monitoring of water distribution system
Patent No. 11460459

Inventor(s): Brian Morrow (Carrollton, TX), Charles Kitowski (Colleyville, TX), Daniel Copeland (Bessemer, AL), Leon G. McCullough (West Des Moines, IA), Mike Vore (Oskaloosa, IA)
Assignee(s): AMI INVESTMENTS, LLC (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Maynard, Cooper Gale, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17478008 on 09/17/2021 (382 days app to issue)

Abstract: A liquid monitoring system includes a remote measurement device located at a location of the fire hydrant that is in contact with water provided by a water main. The remote measurement device has sensors that measure characteristics of the water and a communication interface that transmits measured information to a communication network device that may be located elsewhere on the fire hydrant. The communication network device communicates with a communication network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Apparatus and methods for remote controlled cold storage of digital assets using near field communication tags
Patent No. 11461565

Inventor(s): Atul Patil (Indore, , IN), Austin Trombley (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Blockchain Innovation, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Nelson Bumgardner Conroy P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16733045 on 01/02/2020 (1006 days app to issue)

Abstract: An air-gapped system enables the secure transfer and control of digital assets, such as those associated with crypto-currency. The system includes an Integration Server for receiving requests from an application interface, a Central Control Center for verifying the requests received and authorizing the requests using digital signatures, and multiple Distributed Data Centers, each including a cold Data Center Hardware Security Module (DC HSM). These DC HSMs securely store and manage cryptographic keys. Each Data Center also includes an offline Processing Unit coupling its DC HSM to a dedicated Remote Controlled Server. The Remote Controlled Server receives requests from the Integration Server and forwards them to the Processing Unit of a DC HSM using a Near-Field Communication (NFC) Interface between the two. Preferably, the NFC interface is physically shielded to resist side channel attacks.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Driver for transistor
Patent No. 11462616

Inventor(s): Joseph Maurice Khayat (Bedford, NH), Lemuel Herbert Thompson (Melissa, TX), Marco Corsi (Oak Point, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15602908 on 05/23/2017 (1960 days app to issue)

Abstract: In the described examples, a driver includes a signal controller that provides a gate control signal to a gate buffer coupled to a gate of a transistor and a field plate control signal to a field plate buffer coupled to a field plate of the transistor. The signal controller provides a rising edge on the field plate control signal causing the field plate buffer to provide a bias voltage on the field plate of the transistor a predetermined amount of time after providing a rising edge on the gate control signal that causes the gate buffer to provide a turn-on voltage on the gate of the transistor that causes the transistor to transition from a cutoff region to a saturation region and to a linear region.

[H01L] SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (use of semiconductor devices for measuring G01; resistors in general H01C; magnets, inductors, transformers H01F; capacitors in general H01G; electrolytic devices H01G 9/00; batteries, accumulators H01M; waveguides, resonators, or lines of the waveguide type H01P; line connectors, current collectors H01R; stimulated-emission devices H01S; electromechanical resonators H03H; loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers H04R; electric light sources in general H05B; printed circuits, hybrid circuits, casings or constructional details of electrical apparatus, manufacture of assemblages of electrical components H05K; use of semiconductor devices in circuits having a particular application, see the subclass for the application) [2]

LiAlC14 derivatives in the space group of Pnma as Li super-ionic conductor, solid electrolyte, and coating layer for Li metal battery and Li-ion battery
Patent No. 11462766

Inventor(s): Chen Ling (Troy, MI), Xingfeng He (Greenbelt, MD), Yifei Mo (Fulton, MD), Yunsheng Liu (Hyattsville, MD)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16909809 on 06/23/2020 (833 days app to issue)

Abstract: Solid-state lithium ion electrolytes of lithium aluminum chloride derivative compounds having a crystal morphology in the Pnma space group are provided as materials for conducting lithium ions. An activation energy of the lithium aluminum chloride derivative compounds is from 0.2 to 0.45 eV and conductivities are from 0.01 to 10 mS/cm at 300K. Compounds of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the composite lithium ion electrolytes and electrodes containing the lithium aluminum chloride derivative compounds are also provided.

[H01M] PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY [2]

Antenna tower platform assembly
Patent No. 11462813

Inventor(s): Raphael de la Soujeole (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16404872 on 05/07/2019 (1246 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna platform includes: a mounting assembly configured to mount to an antenna tower; a plurality of main floor sections, each of the main floor sections connected to the mounting assembly; a plurality of auxiliary floor sections, the auxiliary floor sections arranged in alternating relationship with the plurality of main floor sections to form an endless platform, each auxiliary floor section mounted to two adjacent main floor sections; a plurality of pole supports mounted to each main floor section; a plurality of horizontal antenna poles mounted to the plurality of pole supports, wherein some of the plurality of horizontal antenna poles are main horizontal antenna poles that are positioned radially outwardly of each main floor section, and wherein others of the plurality of horizontal antenna poles are auxiliary horizontal antenna poles that are positioned radially outwardly of each auxiliary floor section; and a plurality of vertical antenna poles mounted to the horizontal antenna poles.

[H01Q] AERIALS (radiators or aerials for microwave heating H05B 6/72)

Small cell antenna assembly and module for same
Patent No. 11462819

Inventor(s): Julian R. Colapietro (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16889876 on 06/02/2020 (854 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna assembly includes: a plurality of antenna-radio units, each of the antenna-radio units comprising an antenna and a radio transceiver in an integrated unit, each antenna having an external face; and a mounting assembly comprising a foundation, a cap and a spine, the foundation being mounted to a lower end of the spine and the cap mounted to an upper end of the spine. The antenna-radio units are mounted at circumferentially equally spaced locations between the foundation and the cap, with their respective external faces facing radially outwardly. The assembly also includes a plurality of spacers, each spacer located between two adjacent antenna-radio units, and each antenna-radio unit between located between two adjacent spacers, each of the spacers including an arcuate external surface. The external faces of the antennas and the external surfaces of the spacers generally define a cylinder.

[H01Q] AERIALS (radiators or aerials for microwave heating H05B 6/72)

Dynamic signal slope compensation
Patent No. 11462991

Inventor(s): Jiancong Ruan (Shenzhen, , CN), Runqin Tan (Shenzhen, , CN), Zhicheng Hu (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16560149 on 09/04/2019 (1126 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit. In at least some examples, the circuit includes an integrator coupled between a first node and a second node and a filter coupled between the second node and a third node. The circuit further includes a buffer coupled between the third node and a fourth node and a first switch coupled between the fourth node and a fifth node. The circuit further includes a first capacitor coupled between the fifth node and a ground node, a first resistor comprising a first terminal coupled to the fifth node and a second terminal, a second switch coupled between the second terminal of the first resistor and the ground node.

[H02M] APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (conversion of current or voltage specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/02; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables in general, e.g. using transformers, reactors or choke coils, combination of such systems with static converters G05F; for digital computers G06F 1/00; transformers H01F; connection or control of one converter with regard to conjoint operation with a similar or other source of supply H02J; dynamo-electric converters H02K 47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P; pulse generators H03K) [5]

Power transfer over an isolated capacitive barrier with controlled current
Patent No. 11463000

Inventor(s): Ashish Kumar (Santa Clara, CA), Haoquan Zhang (Cambridge, MA), Yogesh Kumar Ramadass (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138660 on 12/30/2020 (643 days app to issue)

Abstract: Capacitively isolated current-loaded or current-driven charge pump circuits and related methods transfer electrical energy from a primary side to a secondary side over a capacitive isolation boundary, using a controlled current source to charge isolation capacitors with constant current, as opposed to current impulses, while maintaining output voltage within tolerance. The charge pump circuits provide DC-to-DC converters that can be used in isolated power supplies, particularly in low-power applications and in such devices as sensor transmitters that have separate electrical ground planes. The devices and methods transfer electrical energy over an isolated capacitive barrier in a manner that is efficient, inexpensive, and reduces electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Switch-mode power supply circuit
Patent No. 11463002

Inventor(s): Jiancong Ruan (Shenzhen, , CN), Peisheng Zhu (Shenzhen, , CN), Runqin Tan (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16654132 on 10/16/2019 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: A switch-mode power supply circuit includes a feedback terminal, a control circuit, a comparator, and a switch. The comparator includes a first input terminal coupled to a reference voltage source, and an output terminal coupled to an input terminal of the control circuit. The switch includes a first terminal coupled to the feedback terminal, a second terminal coupled to a second input terminal of the comparator, and a third terminal coupled to an output terminal of the control circuit.

Ramp generator for buck/boost converters
Patent No. 11463005

Inventor(s): Benjamin McCue (Clinton, TN), Huijuan Li (Plano, TX), Ronnie Antone Bean (Lenoir City, TN), Ryan Erik Lind (Knoxville, TN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16859467 on 04/27/2020 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a converter circuit can be configured to operate in a buck-boost mode. The converter circuit can include a ramp generator that can be configured to generate first and second ramp signals that at least partially overlap respective portions of a buck-boost region during each intermediate clock cycle between clock cycles of a clock signal. By generating the first and second ramp signals during each intermediate clock cycle, first and second drivers can be provided to toggle switches of a power stage, such that an output voltage provided by the power stage can be averaged out over clock cycles of the clock signal to allow for a gradual transition between buck and boost modes of operation of the converter circuit. In some examples, the converter circuit can be configured to operate in a test mode and can be configured to implement trimming of a ramp signal.

High voltage converter with switch modules parallel driving a single transformer primary
Patent No. 11463011

Inventor(s): George Mantov (Sofia, , BG), Ken Wallace (Lewis Center, OH), Plamen Jordanoff (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Solid State Power LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Schonauer Law LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17305638 on 07/12/2021 (449 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multilink power converter with reduced winding voltage is disclosed. In the disclosed embodiments, multiple converters have their primaries or their outputs connected in series while using a single transformer winding connected to the converters” outputs through voltage blocking capacitors.

Low power comparator
Patent No. 11463077

Inventor(s): Dinesh Jain (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15164283 on 05/25/2016 (2323 days app to issue)

Abstract: A comparator includes an input stage having a differential input and an output, wherein the voltage at the output is in response to the voltage at the input. The comparator further includes a current limiter for limiting the current flow through the input stage, wherein the current flow through the input stage is in response to the voltage at the input.

[H03K] PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D 3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) [4]

Control circuit for an H-bridge circuit
Patent No. 11463086

Inventor(s): Kannan Krishna (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16029277 on 07/06/2018 (1551 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit comprises an H-bridge circuit that includes a pair of current sources and a plurality of transistors. The H-bridge circuit includes a first output and a second output. One of the current sources is coupled to receive a supply voltage. A control circuit is configured to control, based on a sum of voltages on the first and second outputs, current of at least one of the current sources through at least some of the plurality of transistors.

Method and apparatus for uplink control information omission
Patent No. 11463142

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17009529 on 09/01/2020 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a UE for CSI reporting is provided. The method comprises receiving configuration information for a CSI report, determining the CSI report comprising a first CSI part and a second CSI part, the second CSI part including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), the PMI comprising a plurality of PMI components, wherein some of the PMI components comprise sub-components, determining priority values for the sub-components of the some of the PMI components, partitioning the second CSI part into Group 0, Group 1, and Group 2 such that the sub-components of the some of the PMI components are divided into Group 1 and Group 2 based on the determined priority values for the sub-components, and transmitting the first CSI part and Group 0 or (Group 0, Group 1) or (Group 0, Group 1, Group 2) of the second CSI part based on a resource allocation for the CSI report.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Document verification system
Patent No. 11463255

Inventor(s): Patrick N. Lawrence (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17141064 on 01/04/2021 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device receives a document that includes a request and supporting data associated with the request. The device determines that the received request is a first request type. A first set of supporting data is determined that is needed to determine a verification status for requests of the first request type. Based on a comparison of the received supporting data to the first set of supporting data, the device determines that the supporting data includes the data needed to determine the verification status for requests of the first request type. The device then extracts document data from the received document. The extracted document data is compared to the supporting data. Based on this comparison, a verification status is determined for the request.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Creating and managing dynamic workflows based on occupancy
Patent No. 11463315

Inventor(s): William Jeffery White (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams Aughtry (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17236742 on 04/21/2021 (531 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows. The method may include receiving, by a platform controller of a domain, a workflow portion and workflow constraints from a service controller of a federated controller, provisioning, by the platform controller, a set of devices in the domain to the workflow portion, executing the workflow portion in the domain using the set of devices, monitoring the executing of the workflow portion to determine an occupancy of the workflow portion, making a determination that the occupancy of the workflow portion exceeds an available capacity of the domain, providing, based on the determination, the occupancy to the service controller, and in response to the occupancy, performing, by the service controller, a remediation action.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for dynamic virtualized network function descriptor management
Patent No. 11463384

Inventor(s): Haitao Xia (Beijing, , CN), Xu Yang (Beijing, , CN), Zhixian Xiang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16887762 on 05/29/2020 (858 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Virtual Network Function Descriptor (VNFD) parameter may include subfields that allow a management entity to determine whether the VNFD parameter can be updated. The subfields may include a write-ability subfield that indicates whether the VNFD parameter is a dynamic/configurable VNFD parameter or a fixed/static VNFD parameter. The VNFD parameter may also include an access permission subfield that indicates which entities are authorized to modify/update the VNFD parameter. The VNFD parameter may also include an administrative priority subfield that indicates a priority of an entity that set an attribute of the VNFD parameter. The VNFD parameter may also include a constraints subfield that indicates one or more conditions that are required to occur in order for the VNFD parameter to be updated.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for detecting potentially harmful data
Patent No. 11463406

Inventor(s): Christopher Dylan Bruch Foster (Ann Arbor, MI), Jonathan Daniel Durbin (Milan, MI)
Assignee(s): ZIXCORP SYSTEMS, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15982747 on 05/17/2018 (1601 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving electronic data, extracting a first identifier from the electronic data, extracting first attributes from the electronic data, and searching a database for identifiers that match the first identifier to determine a number of matching identifiers. The method also includes determining that the number of matching identifiers exceeds a first threshold and searching the database for attributes associated with each of the matching identifiers to determine a subset of matching attributes. The method further includes calculating a specificity for the subset of matching attributes, determining that the specificity of the subset of matching attributes is less than or equal to a second threshold, and creating a filter based at least in part on the determination that the specificity of the subset of matching attributes is less than or equal to the second threshold.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Policy engine for cyber anomaly detection
Patent No. 11463407

Inventor(s): Gregory A. Ladd (Frisco, TX), Kendall L. Hefley (Royse City, TX), Peter L. Stewart (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16510293 on 07/12/2019 (1180 days app to issue)

Abstract: An industrial control system (ICS) communicates via ICS protocols. A model is deployed in an information technology (IT) and operation technology (OT) network. Security policies are dynamically updated as the particular IT and OT network are used, patched, and modified. A deep packet inspection is used to enforce ICS constraints and ICS behaviors defined by the initial model. A state of the deep packet inspection is reported for situational awareness and debugging purposes. An alert is transmitted when anomalies are detected when ICS protocol traffic traverses ICS firewall network paths that execute ICS policies.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Systems and methods for determining effectiveness of network segmentation policies
Patent No. 11463483

Inventor(s): James Gabriel Fontenot (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Polsinelli (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16921184 on 07/06/2020 (820 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for scoring network segmentation policies in order to determine their effectiveness before, during and after enforcement. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more applications within an enterprise network; identifying at least one network security policy in association with the one or more applications within the enterprise network; determining a score of the network security policy based on information corresponding to exposure of each of the one or more applications within the enterprise network; and executing the network security policy based on the score.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for sharing a SIP communication service identifier
Patent No. 11463487

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P. C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17112636 on 12/04/2020 (669 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for providing a user agent (UA) with service identification data. The method includes an application server (AS) transmitting Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) data. The SIP data comprises an identifier of the AS and a service identifier for at least one service supported by the AS. The method further includes the UA receiving the SIP data.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for efficiently transmitting signals with repeating structures
Patent No. 11463522

Inventor(s): Christopher Russell (The Colony, TX), Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX), Ryan Thomas Russell (The Colony, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16942830 on 07/30/2020 (796 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for efficiently transmitting signals from a sensing device to a remote device are disclosed. The sensing device includes at least one sensor for sensing information. The sensed information could be associated with heart activity. The sensing device smooths the sensed signal and then calculates the difference between the smoothed sensed signal and a locally stored baseline signal to determine a differential signal, which can be transmitted as a smaller packet of data than the full sensed signal. The remote device receives information associated with the differential signal and uses a local copy of the baseline signal to reconstruct the original smoothed sensed signal.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Modular telecommunication edge cloud system
Patent No. 11463548

Inventor(s): Jingjing Zhang (Plano, TX), Konstantinos Kanonakis (Dallas, TX), Wei Wei (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17020431 on 09/14/2020 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: A telecommunications edge cloud (TEC) element comprising a plurality of TEC hardware components comprising a computing component that includes one or more processors, a storage component that includes a memory, a networking component, with the TEC device being deployed between a client and a packet network, the computing component being configured to manage a computing resource in the computing component, a networking resource in the networking component, and a storage resource in the storage component, allocate the computing resource for a first application of the plurality of different applications, execute the first application using the computing resource, allocate the networking resource for a second application of the plurality of different applications, execute the second application using the networking resource, allocate the storage resource for a third application of the plurality of different applications, execute the third application using the storage resource.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Screen interface for a mobile device apparatus
Patent No. 11463576

Inventor(s): George Andrew Gordon (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Majen Tech, LLC (Longview, TX)
Law Firm: The Caldwell Firm, LLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16041611 on 07/20/2018 (1537 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device is provided comprising: a user interface component configured to output stimuli and receive inputs; a connection component configured to transmit communications to other devices, one or more processors coupled to the user interface component and the connection component; and a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform actions including: securely storing, at the electronic device, payment information associated with a payment account; detecting a proximate POS terminal; in response to detecting the proximate POS terminal, determining that a mechanical input authorizing a payment transaction has not been locally received at the electronic device within a time period; in response to the determination, presenting a stimulus indicating that the mechanical input has not been locally received; detecting, subsequent to the stimulus presentation, via the user interface component, a mechanical input was locally received at the electronic device; in response to detecting that the mechanical input has been locally received at the device, enabling the payment information to be accessed; and transmitting, from the electronic device, a communication including the payment information to the POS terminal.

[H04M] TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

Universal and adaptive de-mosaicing (CFA) system
Patent No. 11463664

Inventor(s): Denis Beaudoin (Rowlett, TX), Gang Hua (Katy, TX), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX), Shashank Dabral (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16911579 on 06/25/2020 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of de-mosaicing pixel data from an image processor includes generating a pixel block that includes a plurality of image pixels. The method also includes determining a first image gradient between a first set of pixels of the pixel block and a second image gradient between a second set of pixels of the pixel block. The method also includes determining a first adaptive threshold value based on intensity of a third set of pixels of the pixel block. The pixels of the third set of pixels are adjacent to one another. The method also includes filtering the pixel block in a vertical, horizontal, or neutral direction based on the first and second image gradients and the first adaptive threshold value utilizing a plurality of FIR filters to generate a plurality of component images.

[H04N] PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION [4]

Fast intra-prediction mode selection in video coding
Patent No. 11463710

Inventor(s): Hyung Joon Kim (Johns Creek, GA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17088346 on 11/03/2020 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining intra-prediction modes for prediction units (PUs) of a largest coding unit (LCU) is provided that includes determining an intra-prediction mode for each child PU of a PU, and selecting an intra-prediction mode for the PU based on the intra-prediction modes determined for the child PUs.

[H04N] PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION [4]

Speaker system with overhead sound projection
Patent No. 11463811

Inventor(s): Hussnain Ali (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED (Stamford, CT)
Law Firm: Brooks Kushman P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17224773 on 04/07/2021 (545 days app to issue)

Abstract: A speaker system is provided with a cabinet with a front face. At least one forward-firing driver is supported by the cabinet to project sound along a first axis that is generally perpendicular to the front face of the cabinet. At least one upward-firing driver is supported by the cabinet and arranged above the at least one forward-firing driver to project high frequency sound along a second axis that is angularly offset from the first axis at an acute splay angle. A controller is programmed to provide a mid-range frequency component of a front audio channel to the at least one forward-firing driver, and to provide a high frequency component of a top audio channel to the upward-firing driver.

[H04R] LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) [6]

Systems and methods for exposing custom per flow descriptor attributes
Patent No. 11463915

Inventor(s): David Taft (Keller, TX), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, TX), Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, TX), Maqbool Chauhan (Keller, TX), Parry Cornell Booker (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107172 on 11/30/2020 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to establish a data traffic flow for a user equipment (UE) device and determine per flow descriptor attributes associated with the data traffic flow, wherein the per flow descriptor attributes identify at least a source, a destination, and a protocol associated with the data traffic flow. The processor may be further configured to determine at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute for the data traffic flow and send the per flow descriptor attributes and the at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute to a network exposure device of a core network, wherein the network exposure device is configured to communicate with servers outside the core network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Single power phase buck and boost converters
Patent No. 11464093

Inventor(s): Tuan Van Tran (Brighton, CO), Vahid Yousefzadeh (Boulder, CO)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17363768 on 06/30/2021 (461 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, an apparatus includes a transistor, a switch, a diode, a capacitor, a voltage divider, a second transistor, a resistor, and a controller. The transistor has a transistor drain, a transistor source, and a transistor gate. The switch is adapted to couple a power supply to the transistor drain through an inductor. The diode has a cathode and an anode, the diode cathode coupled to the transistor drain. The capacitor is coupled between the diode anode and ground. The voltage divider is coupled between the diode anode and ground and having a voltage divider output. The second transistor has a second transistor source and a second transistor gate. The resistor is coupled between the diode anode and the second transistor source. The controller is coupled to the transistor gate, the transistor source, the voltage divider output, the diode anode, the second transistor gate, and the second transistor source.

[H05B] ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

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Cover for cosmetic products
Patent No. D965355

Inventor(s): Nick Farinola (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): WALGREEN CO. (Deerfield, IL)
Law Firm: Marshall, Gerstein Borun LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29728454 on 03/18/2020 (930 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen with animated graphical user interface
Patent No. D965613

Inventor(s): Cynthia J. Nustad (Chandler, AZ), Gregory W. Fischer (Irving, TX), Mari-Anne Eisert (Charlotte, NC), Melina R. Baracca (Raleigh, NC), Melinda Giese (Heath, TX), Nathan Burgess (Kannapolis, NC), Reginald Vincent (Maplewood
Assignee(s): HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29712682 on 11/11/2019 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen with graphical user interface
Patent No. D965615

Inventor(s): Gary Blohm (Denver, CO), Mick Milnark (Denver, CO), Randy Starr (Denver, CO)
Assignee(s): OMNITRACS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Arentfox Schiff LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29732546 on 04/24/2020 (893 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Receiver configuration for a bottling machine
Patent No. D965652

Inventor(s): Alton W. Mowdy (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): MM Machinery Services, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery, LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29795581 on 06/18/2021 (473 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Tape dispenser
Patent No. D965680

Inventor(s): Todd Sternberg (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29763140 on 12/21/2020 (652 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body
Patent No. D965701

Inventor(s): Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney, TX), Jaime Felix Barajas (Dallas, TX), Jonathan Scott Wood (Frisco, TX), Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Kevin Nichols (Farmersville, TX), Otto Karl Allme
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29714360 on 11/22/2019 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Trigger guard for a firearm
Patent No. D965724

Inventor(s): Richard Pederson (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kim IP Law Group LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29725543 on 02/26/2020 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Slide release curtain for a firearm
Patent No. D965725

Inventor(s): Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kim IP Law Group LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29725572 on 02/26/2020 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Slide for a firearm
Patent No. D965726

Inventor(s): Anthony Joseph Ribic (Richardson, TX), Richard Pederson (Plano, TX), Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kim IP Law Group LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29728523 on 03/19/2020 (929 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Slide for a firearm
Patent No. D965727

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Ledge cut for a handgun
Patent No. D965728

Inventor(s): Richard Pederson (Plano, TX), Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kim IP Law Group LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29734539 on 05/13/2020 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vent for vehicle heating and air conditioning systems
Patent No. D965754

Inventor(s): Michael W Rejkowski (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CLASSIC AUTO AIR MANUFACTURING LP (Beachwood, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29761390 on 12/09/2020 (664 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Swab
Patent No. D965771

Inventor(s): Caleb James Lund (Plano, TX), Hongzhao Ji (Dallas, TX), Pedro Emanuel Rocha Flores (Richardson, TX), Walter Everett Voit (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Adapative 3D Technologies (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29753529 on 09/30/2020 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Nasal dilator
Patent No. D965778

Inventor(s): Brian Dean Owens (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Simplicity, LLC (Spanish Fork, UT)
Law Firm: Goodhue, Coleman Owens, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29688472 on 04/22/2019 (1261 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Powder compact with externally removable applicator
Patent No. D965902

Inventor(s): Alexander Lee Kwapis (Dallas, TX), Daniel M. Dominski (Flower Mound, TX), Michael Benjamin Seibert (Culver City, CA), Nils Ernst Alfons Siegel (New York, NY)
Assignee(s): Fusion Packaging I, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Carrington, Coleman, Sloman Blumenthal, L.L.P. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29709592 on 10/15/2019 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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