Beyond RedCritter, other organizations with notable patents granted this week include:

7-Eleven’s detection of locations associated with anomalous fuel dispensing operations within a network of gas stations
Appliance Innovation’s apparatus for preparing and delivering custom-ordered caffeinated beverages
AT&T’s method for distribution of quantum entanglement using drones
Bank of America’s methods for detecting attrition in a distributed network using artificial intelligence
BNSF Railway’s system for fuel monitoring and spill prevention
Dell Products’ managing sanitization of data processing systems using out-of-band methods
Halliburton’s method of generating energy from sequestered supercritical carbon dioxide
IBM’s time-domain multiplexing of quantum bit control signals
JPMorgan Chase’s systems for continuously updating and runtime processing of decisioning
Just Right Reader’s automated customization virtual ecosystem
McKesson’s advanced prediction of shipping attributes of a package in a dispensing pharmacy
Paws Forwards’ automatic animal feeding system for automatically removing food pod lids
Stryker’s mobile radiolucent imaging table
Texas Instruments’ self-calibration of a polymer-based humidity sensor
Toyota’s resins for digital light processing 3D printing
Verily Life Sciences’ systems and methods for prevention of surgical mistakes
Verizon’s 5G network functions to prevent cybersecurity threats
Wells Fargo’s systems and methods for correspondence fraud detection

patent for a luggage piece designed for crease-free fencing equipment

Dallas Invents is a 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 indicate future economic growth, 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 May 19, 2026 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

129 patents granted
Ranked No. 11 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 10
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 7
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 3
E: Fixed Constructions 8
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 2
G: Physics 42
H: Electricity 50

DESIGN: 7

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 6
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 5
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 5
Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson) 4
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 3
Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock) 3
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 3
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 3

UNASSIGNED 6

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, MI) 3
Alberto Echazabal (Prosper) 2
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper) 2
Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, CA) 2
Madhukar Budagavi (Plano) 2
Masato Tanaka (Ann Arbor, MI) 2
Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano) 2
Na Hyun Ha (Cupertino, CA) 2
Nipun Agarwal (Fremont, CA) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

H U M A N N E C E S S I T I E S

Automatic animal feeding system for automatically removing food pod lids
Patent No. 12628793

Inventor(s): Charles Putland (Ben Lomond, CA), Eric Liu (Houston, TX), George Turvey (Brookdale, CA), Jeffrey Pon (Southlake, TX), Matthew Firlik (Buena Park, CA), Peter Franklin (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): PAWS FORWARDS INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18464959 on 09/11/2023 (981 days app to issue)

Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.

[A01K] ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Pet toy and method of manufacturing same
Patent No. 12628798

Inventor(s): Josiah Wilhelm (Arlington, TX), Ron Bagley (Arlington, TX), Vung Van Nguyen (Long an Province, , VN)
Assignee(s): Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18611381 on 03/20/2024 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pet toy includes preforming one or more rubber compound sheets, preforming a foam rubber core in a desired shape, enclosing the foam rubber core within the one or more rubber compound sheets so that the foam rubber core forms an inner part and the one or more rubber compound sheets form an outer part, and coating the outer part enclosing the inner part.

[A01K] ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Prismatic lens for reducing a dynamic alignment differential
Patent No. 12629022

Inventor(s): Jeffrey P. Krall (Mitchell, SD), John Merrill Davis, III (Midlothian, VA)
Assignee(s): Newton, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18295405 on 04/04/2023 (1141 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining a binocular dynamic alignment can include the following steps: causing a patient to gaze at a starting target with a left eye and a right eye, with a display; shifting the target in a first direction by a first target shift angle at a first target shift time, with the display; measuring a first dynamic alignment differential between the left eye and the right eye acquiring the first-shifted target, with an eye tracker; shifting the first-shifted target in a second direction at a second target shift time, with the display; measuring a second dynamic alignment differential between the left eye and the right eye acquiring the second-shifted target with the eye tracker; determining an average dynamic alignment differential from the first dynamic alignment differential and the second alignment differential, with a computer; and determining a prescription prism to reduce the average dynamic alignment differential.

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

Mobile radiolucent imaging table
Patent No. 12629111

Inventor(s): Heather Michelle Bartlett (Dallas, TX), Jakob Sum (Trossingen, , DE), Michael Grady Boucher (Ayer, MA), Udo Tockweiler (Immendingen, , DE)
Assignee(s): Stryker Corporation (Portage, MI)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18052540 on 11/03/2022 (1293 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile radiolucent table system configurable for medical imaging includes a table pedestal comprising a table base portion and a table support mounted to the table base portion; a platform supported by the table support; a frame translatably mounted to the platform and configured for positioning a patient; and an actuator configured to linearly translate the frame relative to the platform between a fully extended configuration and a fully retracted configuration, wherein in the fully extended configuration, a front edge of the frame projects from the platform at least 1 meter past a front edge of the platform and a front edge of the table base portion, wherein the fully extended configuration is configured for medical imaging.

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

Disposable thrombectomy maceration and aspiration system
Patent No. 12629159

Inventor(s): Lee Carter (McKinney, TX), Matthew Mobley (Athens, TX), Mukesh Shah (Des Plaines, IL), Ramana Hogirala (Mount Prospect, IL)
Assignee(s): Argon Medical Devices, Inc. (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17234278 on 04/19/2021 (1856 days app to issue)

Abstract: A disposable thrombectomy maceration and aspiration system for macerating and aspirating thrombus or other obstructive material in a lumen of a vascular graft or vessel. The system includes three major components: a disposable integrated aspiration pump and fluid collection device for generating aspiration vacuum pressure and collecting macerated particulate, a disposable integrated thrombectomy and aspiration apparatus removably coupled to the device configured to macerate the thrombus with a motor powered maceration wire while including an aspiration pathway for aspirating the macerated particulate into the device, and a catheter removably coupled to the apparatus and covering a portion of the maceration wire for insertion into the patient to the thrombus site. The catheter is of sufficient size to allow the macerated particulate to be aspirated from a distal opening through the catheter and apparatus before being deposited into the fluid collection compartment of the device.

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

System and method for joining boney structures
Patent No. 12629185

Inventor(s): Alan W. Rorke (Bristol, , GB), Daniel S. Savage (Brecksville, OH), Randall F. Lee (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18123765 on 03/20/2023 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are system and methods that use at least one non-threaded anchor and an implant with at least one aperture to join boney structures, where the interaction of the head of the anchor with the implant aperture causes the anchor to move transversely with respect to an initial trajectory. This movement causes compression or distraction of the boney structures which are coupled to the anchors.

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

System and method for controlling neurostimulation according to user activity and automated rescheduling of stimulation programs
Patent No. 12629525

Inventor(s): Christopher S. L. Crawford (Sunnyvale, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18131465 on 04/06/2023 (1139 days app to issue)

Abstract: This application is generally related to systems and methods for providing a medical therapy to a patient by tracking patient activity and adjusting medical therapy based on occurrence of different types of activities performed by the patient while automatically rescheduling stimulation programs based on detected patient activity.

[A61N] ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B 18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infra-red radiators for heating H05B) [6]

Golf club head or other ball striking device having impact-influencing body features
Patent No. 12629564

Inventor(s): Eric A. Larson (Arlington, TX), Hiromitsu Akiyama (Tokyo, , JP), Joshua M. Boggs (Aledo, TX), Kevin Harper (Fort Worth, TX), Michael T. Prichard (Portland, OR), Yoshimasa Fujita (Ping-Tung Hsien, , TW)
Assignee(s): Karsten Manufacturing Corporation (Phoenix, AZ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18393505 on 12/21/2023 (880 days app to issue)

Abstract: A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a face with a striking surface configured for striking a ball and a channel extending across a portion of the sole. The channel may be recessed from adjacent surfaces of the sole and have a depth of recession from the adjacent surfaces of the sole. The channel may have a cross-sectional profile that is asymmetric with a front wall and a rear wall where the front wall is longer than the rear wall. The channel may also have a center thickness that is different than a thickness at the heel and toe sides.

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

Luggage piece for crease-free fencing equipment
Patent No. 12629579

Inventor(s): Helene Jiaqi Amy Cheron (McKinney, TX), Xuan Song (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19385309 on 11/11/2025 (189 days app to issue)

Abstract: A luggage piece may be sized to and include features that facilitate storage and transportation of fencing equipment such that the luggage piece decreases a likelihood of damaging the fencing equipment during storage and transportation. The luggage piece may include a first shell formed by a back panel, first cover, first lid, and foundation in which one or more pieces of fencing equipment may be stored in an interior space of the first shell in one or more compartments. The first cover may include a curved profile shape that bows out relative to the interior space of the first shell to facilitate storage of lames without creasing electrical wiring of the lames. The luggage piece may include a second shell formed by the back panel, a second cover, a second lid in which one or more fencing swords may be stored.

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

Apparatus for preparing and delivering custom-ordered caffeinated beverages
Patent No. 12630409

Inventor(s): Andrew Podevels (Wauwatosa, WI), Anthony Sayas (Wylie, TX), Kevin Grogan (Wylie, TX), Lee VanLanen (McKinney, TX), Philip R. McKee (Dallas, TX), Scott Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Appliance Innovation Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18956040 on 11/22/2024 (543 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing custom-ordered beverages is disclosed. The apparatus includes cup dispensers, beverage dispensing systems having dispensing heads, two cup-transfer mechanisms, two pick-up stations, and a disposal bin. Each of the pick-up stations includes a conveyer and a set of beverage pick-up windows. The first cup-transfer mechanism transports a cup from a cup dispenser to a dispensing head to fill the cup with beverage. The second cup-transfer mechanism transports the cup with filled beverage to one of two pick-up stations. A conveyer at one of the two pick-stations moves the cup with filled beverage and stops to present it at each pick-up window at one of the two pick-stations. If a customer does not pick the cup within an allocated amount of time, it will be dropped into the disposal bin.

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

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

Antimicrobial filter media
Patent No. 12629621

Inventor(s): Anthony John Lawson (Verona, , IT), Donald Cho (Carrollton, TX), Gerrit Wijbenja (Leeuwarden, , NL), Mei Xin (Suwanee, GA), William G. England (Suwanee, GA)
Assignee(s): Purafil, Inc. (Doraville, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17742675 on 05/12/2022 (1468 days app to issue)

Abstract: A product and method of manufacturing and producing antimicrobial fibers using an antimicrobial additive material. The method comprising using various antimicrobial metals incorporated and embedded into an inorganic material as metal ions within the additive material that can be formulated into a masterbatch precursor material and processed to manufacture fine or synthetic fibers using standard manufacturing processes for use in applications from face masks and respirators to air filters for HVAC and higher efficiency HEPA applications.

[B01D] SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D, by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B, by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges B04B; vortex apparatus B04C; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B 9/02) [5]

Lithium ion adsorbents
Patent No. 12629657

Inventor(s): Jackson Frantz (Calgary, , CA), Majid Rasool (Calgary, , CA), Michael Mislan (Calgary, , CA), Preston McEachern (Calgary, , CA)
Assignee(s): EMPOWER INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18162965 on 02/01/2023 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lithium ion sorbent includes an organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve. The organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve is a reaction product of a lithium ion sieve and an organosilane. The lithium ion sieve is either a delithiated orthosilicate or a delithiated metal oxide. The organosilane reagent is of the general formula: R[superscript]1[/superscript](CH[subscript]2[/subscript])[subscript]n[/subscript]SiR[superscript]4[/superscript][subscript]3 [/subscript]where R[superscript]1 [/superscript]is an organic moiety containing a functional group selected from an acrylate, methacrylate or vinyl group or their derivatives, R[superscript]4 [/superscript]is either a hydrolysable alkoxy group or a methyl group, where at least one of the three R[superscript]4 [/superscript]groups is a hydrolysable alkoxy group and n is 1-3. This lithium ion sorbent is durable and useful for adsorbing lithium from aqueous resources. The lithium ion sorbent can also be used in the manufacture of a composite material where the organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve is covalently incorporated into a porous crosslinked polymeric support scaffold.

[B01J] CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS, COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS (processes or apparatus for specific applications, see the relevant places for these processes or apparatus, e.g. F26B 3/08) [2]

Carbide seat remanufacturing
Patent No. 12629785

Inventor(s): Abel Noriega, II (Corinth, MS), Blake Messer (Weatherford, TX), Christopher Anthony Kinney (Iuka, MS), Connor J Docherty (Fort Worth, TX), Curtis John Graham (Peoria, IL)
Assignee(s): Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19052649 on 02/13/2025 (460 days app to issue)

Abstract: Typically, fluids used in fracking operations erode valve seats in the fluid end of the reciprocating pump. Thus, these valve seats must frequently be replaced by new valve seats. Accordingly, a remanufacturing process is disclosed that successively cleans and/or grinds manually or mechanically at least the carbide inserts from used valve seats until the inserts are reusable. This reduces material costs and promotes efficiency and sustainability.

[B23P] OTHER WORKING OF METAL; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS (arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q)

Tool set with interspersed dual standard elements
Patent No. 12629812

Inventor(s): Bennet Karl Langlotz (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BULLETPROOF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC (Cheyenne, WY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17071175 on 10/15/2020 (2042 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tool kit has a first set of tools of a first standard and of different sizes, a second set of tools of a different second standard and of different sizes, and a holder adapted to receive the first and second set of tools intermixed with each other in an integrated sequence arranged according to size irrespective of standard. The different standards may be indicated by different colors or other indicia, or by positions, such as offset rows that preserve the sequence.

[B25H] WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS

Tow hook assemblies and vehicles including same
Patent No. 12629973

Inventor(s): George DeWitt (Ypsilanti, MI), Jeremiah T. Hammer (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17973068 on 10/25/2022 (1302 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tow hook assembly including a crush box and a tow hook. The crush box includes a support section having a first end and an opposite second end, the tubular support section extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and a connector section provided at the first end of the tubular support section, the connector section including a face plate extending in a vehicle vertical direction perpendicular to the vehicle longitudinal direction, and an upper plate extending from an upper end of the face plate in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The tow hook includes a body having a first portion provided on an upper surface of the upper plate and extending parallel to the upper plate, and an attachment member extending at an oblique angle from the first portion.

[B60D] VEHICLE CONNECTIONS (components of brake systems B60T 17/04)

Composite insulated boxcar floor
Patent No. 12630200

Inventor(s): Codrington E. Barzey (Melbourne, FL), Kenneth W. Huck (Fairview, TX), Marco A. Morales (Flower Mound, TX), Ricky A. Cribbs (Ovilla, TX), Scott M. Lewit (Indialantic, FL)
Assignee(s): Trinity Rail Group, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18469045 on 09/18/2023 (974 days app to issue)

Abstract: A floor section for an insulated railcar includes a floor plate and a composite section coupled to the floor plate. The composite section includes a plurality of composite beams aligned parallel to one another. Each composite beam of the plurality of composite beams includes an inner core and an outer material surrounding the inner core. The inner core includes an insulating material and is configured to support the outer material. An upper surface of each composite beam of the plurality of composite beams, which extends along a length of the composite beam, is coupled to an underside of the floor plate.

[B61D] BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES (vehicles in general B60; adaptation of vehicles to special systems B61B; underframes B61F)

Detecting locations associated with anomalous fuel dispensing operations within a network of gas stations
Patent No. 12630413

Inventor(s): Boonchai Matthew Ragan (Lewisville, TX), Deviprasad Mulluru (Flower Mound, TX), Jake Ylli Hoxha (Farmers Branch, TX), Joshua Michael Rothenberg (Dallas, TX), Scott Albert (Dallas, TX), Sravan Kumar Ayyappa Akula (Aubrey, TX), Srikanth Gandra (Frisco, TX), Srikanth Subramanian (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-Eleven, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17813560 on 07/19/2022 (1400 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system determines an interaction period during which a fuel dispensing operation is performed at a fuel dispensing terminal. The system determines a measured volume per unit time parameter associated with fuel dispensed from the fuel dispensing terminal by dividing the determined volume for fuel by the interaction period. The system compares the measured volume per unit time parameter with a threshold volume per unit time parameter. In response to determining that the measured volume per unit time parameter is less than the threshold volume per unit time parameter, the system retrieves a video feed that shows the fuel dispensing terminal during the fuel dispensing operation. The system creates a file for the fuel dispensing operation. The system stores the video feed in the created file.

[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]

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

Substituted [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-yl compounds as PDE2 inhibitors
Patent No. 12630556

Inventor(s): Graeme Freestone (San Diego, CA), James Breitenbucher (Escondido, CA), Kiev Ly (San Diego, CA), Laurent Gomez (San Diego, CA), Margaret McCarrick (San Diego, CA), Robert Lemus (Escondido, CA), Troy Vickers (San Diego, CA), William Vernier (Vista, CA)
Assignee(s): Dart NeuroScience LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18613695 on 03/22/2024 (788 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[C07D] HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (macromolecular compounds C08) [2]

Resins for digital light processing 3D printing
Patent No. 12630659

Inventor(s): Hang Qi (Marietta, GA), Liang Yue (Atlanta, GA), Masato Tanaka (Ann Arbor, MI), Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17833144 on 06/06/2022 (1443 days app to issue)

Abstract: A resin for grayscale digital light processing 3D printing includes a donor moiety, an acceptor moiety, a rigid moiety, a photoinitiator, and a photoabsorber. The donor moiety is an acrylate monomer with a side group of a free carbonyl, a primary amine on an acrylate, a secondary amine on an acrylate, and/or a tertiary amine on an acrylate. The acceptor moiety is different than the donor moiety and is an acrylate monomer with a side group of a free hydroxy, a primary amine, secondary amine, and/or an imine. And the rigid moiety is acrylate monomer with a side group of a cyclohexyl, a substituted cyclohexyl, or a bicyclic structure. A monolithic structure formed from the resin using grayscale digital light processing 3D printing can have a Young’s modulus ranging from 0.1 MPa to 100 MPa.

[C08F] MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS (production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures from lower carbon number hydrocarbons, e.g. by oligomerisation, C10G 50/00; fermentation or enzyme-using processes to synthesise a desired chemical compound or composition or to separate optical isomers from a racemic mixture C12P; graft polymerisation of monomers containing carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds on to fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials D06M 14/00) [2]

Liquid and semisolid lubricant compositions, methods of making, and uses thereof
Patent No. 12630777

Inventor(s): Asghar Shirani (Denton, TX), Diana Berman (Denton, TX), John Sedbrook (Normal, IL), Kent Chapman (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Trustees of Illinois State University (Normal, IL), University of North Texas (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18894418 on 09/24/2024 (602 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure relates to lubricant compositions comprising an oil, a wax, or a combination thereof, wherein at least one of the oil or the wax comprises a very long chain fatty acid; and wherein at least one of the oil or the wax has been modified to increase a concentration of the very long chain fatty acid relative to a reference concentration of the very long chain fatty acid in the oil or the wax without the modification. In a further aspect, the VLC FA can include one or more of eicosenoic acid, erucic acid, or nervonic acid.

[C10M] LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS (well drilling compositions C09K 8/02); USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATING INGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION (mould release, i.e. separating, agents for metals B22C 3/00, for plastics or substances in a plastic state, in general B29C 33/56, for glass C03B 40/02; textile lubricating compositions D06M 11/00, D06M 13/00, D06M 15/00; immersion oils for microscopy G02B 21/33) [4]

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

Reusable vehicle occupant protection system having reusable impact attenuator members
Patent No. 12630987

Inventor(s): Masato Tanaka (Ann Arbor, MI), Shinnosuke Shimokawa (Ann Arbor, MI), Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH INC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18049755 on 10/26/2022 (1301 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reusable vehicle occupant protection system that includes a reusable housing member and one or more reusable impact attenuator members, disposed in a cavity of the reusable housing member. The reusable housing member has at least one moveable wall having one or more openings. The one or more reusable impact attenuator members are moveable from a storage operating state to a deployed operating state in response to receipt of a compressive force by the at least one moveable wall. In the deployed state, at least a portion of the one or more reusable impact attenuator members are extruded through the one or more openings to form an array of impact bubbles which cushions a vehicle occupant against an impact force to the vehicle.

[E01F] ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE

Subterranean drill bits having shank bypaths
Patent No. 12631070

Inventor(s): Jeremiah Torres (Fort Worth, TX), Thomas Simatic (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): ULTERRA DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, L.P. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18511306 on 11/16/2023 (915 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are PDC drill bits for engaging subterranean formations and for drilling wellbores, wherein the PDC drill bits are adapted to reduce erosion of a bit head face by the inclusion of openings in a portion of the shank of a PDC drill bit. The present disclosure also relates to systems and methods of drilling subterranean formations using the PDC drill bits disclosed herein.

[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]

Power charge adapter
Patent No. 12631078

Inventor(s): Michael Kyle Moore (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19196036 on 05/01/2025 (383 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and methods for setting a plug in a well may comprise a power charge adapter comprising a housing, a switch and igniter disposed within the housing, and a zero-tension connector configured to provide a reliable electrical connection to the switch. The switch may be an addressable switch. The power charge adapter may include an adapter comprising a substantially cylindrical body that may be configured to engage a downhole end of the housing and an uphole end of a power charge.

Downhole plug
Patent No. 12631080

Inventor(s): Donald Smith (Wilson, OK), Matthew Dexter (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19086826 on 03/21/2025 (424 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, an apparatus may comprise a collet sleeve configured for insertion into a cavity of a mule shoe and including teeth configured to ratchet with pawls of the mule shoe. The apparatus also may comprise a packing element surrounding a portion of the collet sleeve and configured to radially expand to form a seal with a casing of a wellbore in response to a setting force to join the teeth and the pawls.

Pump down fiber system, method and tools for multilateral wells
Patent No. 12631081

Inventor(s): David Steele (Carrollton, TX), Matthew Bradley Stokes (Carrollton, TX), Stacey Blaine Donovan (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19055453 on 02/17/2025 (456 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhole system may include a plurality of conduits configured to interconnect, via at least one stab-in connection, to form at least one fiber channel extending along a portion of a wellbore. The downhole system may also include at least one fiber optic line configured to extend through at least a portion of the fiber channel from a surface position to a downhole position. Further, the downhole system may include a plug secured to leading end of the fiber optic line. The plug is configured to move along the at least one fiber channel in response to fluid pressure in the at least one fiber channel to drive the leading end of the at least one fiber optic line along the at least one fiber channel from the surface position to at least the downhole position.

Fast-acting swellable downhole seal
Patent No. 12631086

Inventor(s): Brandon T. Least (Carrollton, TX), Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore, , SG), Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19229631 on 06/05/2025 (348 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhole sealing tool and method use a swellable material (e.g., a swellable rubber or a swellable metallic material) with increased surface area for faster reaction with an activation fluid. In one example, a swellable metallic sealing element and actuator are carried on a tool mandrel for lowering into a wellbore on a conveyance. The sealing element includes a plurality of expandable metal wires supported along the tool mandrel. The expandable metal wires comprise a swellable metallic material that swells in response to exposure to an activation fluid. The actuator is used to separate at least a portion of the expandable metal wires, to increase a surface area exposed to the activation fluid and thereby accelerate the reaction.

Resettable configurable intercept sub surface control valve
Patent No. 12631089

Inventor(s): Douglas King (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18298656 on 04/11/2023 (1134 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to shifting mandrels in downhole tools based on hydraulic pressure. A downhole tool includes an outer sleeve, an inner mandrel and a valve plate coupled to the inner mandrel. The valve plate and the inner mandrel are configured to shift axially within the outer sleeve. The valve plate is further configured to pass a portion of fluid through the valve plate and pass another portion of the fluid around the valve plate, based on a tensile force or a compressive force exerted on the downhole tool.

Method of generating energy from sequestered supercritical carbon dioxide
Patent No. 12631091

Inventor(s): Ryan W. McChesney (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18523462 on 11/29/2023 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) system and method generates electricity by applying a supercritical fluid to an expansion turbine connected to a generator. The expansion turbine sends the fluid from the expansion turbine to a compressor after expansion. The compressor compresses the fluid output by the expansion turbine into a desired supercritical state and the compressed fluid is injected into one or more first sequestration reservoirs in a reservoir formation.

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

Fluid routing plug
Patent No. 12631166

Inventor(s): Christopher Todd Barnett (Stratford, OK), John Keith (Ardmore, OK), Kelcy Jake Foster (Sulphur, OK), Mark S. Nowell (Ardmore, OK), Micheal Cole Thomas (Azle, TX), Nicholas Son (Davis, OK)
Assignee(s): Kerr Machine Co. (Sulphur, OK)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19286790 on 07/31/2025 (292 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fluid routing plug for use with a fluid end section. The fluid end section being one of a plurality of fluid end sections making up a fluid end side of a high pressure pump. The fluid routing plug is installed within a horizontal bore formed in a fluid end section and is configured to route fluid between an intake and discharge bore. The fluid routing plug comprises a plurality of first and second fluid passages. The first and second passages do not intersect and are offset from one another. The first fluid passages are configured to direct fluid delivered to the horizontal bore from intake bores towards a reciprocating plunger. The second fluid passages are configured to direct fluid pressurized by the plunger towards a discharge bore.

[F04B] POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F; crankshafts, crossheads, connecting-rods F16C; flywheels F16F; gearings for interconverting rotary motion and reciprocating motion in general F16H; pistons, piston-rods, cylinders, in general F16J; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Nozzle assembly for exhaust fan unit of HVAC system
Patent No. 12631353

Inventor(s): A K S Manian (Chennai, , IN), Anup T. Kole (Dudhgaon, , IN), Atul A. Shitkande (Pune, , IN), Kapil D. Sahu (Pune, , IN), Luis L. Vargas (Sachse, TX), Parmeshwar G. Patil (Pune, , IN), Rajesh D. Vyas (Vadodara, , IN), Ravindra R. Warake (Gadegaon, , IN), Vikas A. Patil (Jaysingpur, , IN)
Assignee(s): Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC (Milwaukee, WI)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18972379 on 12/06/2024 (529 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fan unit a nozzle assembly including a plurality of nozzles configured to receive an air flow and to expel the air flow through a plurality of outlets corresponding to the plurality of nozzles. A controller configured to control a longitudinal movement of a nozzle of the plurality of nozzles based on an operating condition associated with the fan unit.

[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)

P H Y S I C S

Systems and methods for prevention of surgical mistakes
Patent No. 12629821

Inventor(s): Daniele Piponi (Oakland, CA), Jolle Barral (Mountain View, CA), Martin Habbecke (Palo Alto, CA), Thomas Teisseyre (Pacifica, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17850765 on 06/27/2022 (1422 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, system and process for guiding a surgeon during a medical procedure to prevent surgical mistakes are described. The system may include a machine learning medical procedure server that generates one or more machine learning medical procedure models using, at least, medical procedure data captured during medical procedures performed at a plurality of different medical procedure systems. The system may also include a medical procedure system communicably coupled with the machine learning medical procedure server that receives a selected machine learning medical procedure model from the machine learning medical procedure server, and utilizes the selected machine learning medical procedure model during a corresponding medical procedure to control one or more operations of the medical procedure system.

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

System and method for fuel monitoring and spill prevention
Patent No. 12631479

Inventor(s): John Edward Barnard (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18819331 on 08/29/2024 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, methods, and apparatus for preventing receptacle overfilling are presented. The system can include a sensor member configured to couple with a receptacle and sense a material level within the receptacle, such as via a sight glass of the receptacle. The system can include a controller in operable communication with the sensor member and configured to instantiate the shutoff of material flow from a material dispensing system if a particular material level is detected by the sensor member. The system can include an intermediate member configured to relay communications between the sensor member and the controller. The intermediate member can be coupled to a fluid line and can further act as a holster for the sensor member, such as by facilitating the coupling of the sensor member to the intermediate member and/or the fluid line.

[G01F] MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW, OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME [5]

Self-calibration of a polymer-based humidity sensor
Patent No. 12631498

Inventor(s): Joshua Daniel Wyatt (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17747272 on 05/18/2022 (1462 days app to issue)

Abstract: Self-calibrating a humidity sensor of an integrated humidity and temperature sensor, using the integrated heating element, and the temperature and humidity sensors, of the device, together with a firmware-based control loop running on a controller. The controller actively calculates and monitors one or both sensor output, and the slopes of the sensor outputs, in real time, while the heating element is on, and compares one or both slopes to a pre-programmed threshold, while in a programmable control loop, to then capture the appropriate relative humidity offset to apply to the device during normal operation (with the integrated heating element switched off) for correcting the relative humidity output from the device. Any singularly mounted in-system device can be calibrated, independent of external references, for in-system calibration.

[G01K] MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (radiation pyrometry G01J 5/00)

Systems and methods for tuning resonators for enhanced sensitivity
Patent No. 12631516

Inventor(s): Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, MI), Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, MI), Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18133135 on 04/11/2023 (1134 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to tuning a mechanical resonator for detecting a significant value using an electrical resonator that enhances sensitivity. In one embodiment, a system includes a mechanical resonator having a beam coupled to a body. The system also includes an electrical resonator coupled through a patch to the mechanical resonator, the electrical resonator operating as a shunt and having an inductor and a resistor (LR) circuit in series. The system also includes the electrical resonator that detects, associated with a perturbation of the body, an exceptional point (EP) of the mechanical resonator by varying the LR circuit according to a model.

[G01M] TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Light scattering measurement based on multiple light sources
Patent No. 12631538

Inventor(s): Boyu Shen (McKinney, TX), Kaichien Tsai (Allen, TX), Zhongyan Sheng (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18343423 on 06/28/2023 (1056 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for air quality sensing. In some examples, the techniques are implemented as an apparatus including first and second light sources, a light detector having a detector output, and a processing circuit having a processing input coupled to the detector output and a processing output. The first light source is configured to generate a first light signal having a first wavelength. The second light source is configured to generate a second light signal having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The light detector is configured to generate a first detection signal at the detector output responsive to the first light signal and a second detection signal at the detector output responsive to the second light signal. The processing circuit is configured to generate a third signal representative of an air quality measurement at the processing output responsive to the first and second detection signals.

[G01N] INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)

Intertial sensor that includes fluids
Patent No. 12631664

Inventor(s): Alex Chen (Albuquerque, NM), Cayden Boll (Albuquerque, NM), Joshua Allen Dye (McKinney, TX), Paul C. Galambos (Albuquerque, NM)
Assignee(s): National Technology Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, NM)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18534868 on 12/11/2023 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sensor system described herein includes a container having a first end and a second end that is opposite the first end. The container includes a first fluid adjacent to the first end of the container and a second fluid that is adjacent to the second end of the container. A third fluid, having a density greater than the first and second fluids, separates the first and second fluids within the container. The sensor system also includes a sensor apparatus that is adapted to output data that is indicative of acceleration of a platform that includes the sensor system, where the data is representative of at least one of: 1) location of an interface between the first fluid and the third fluid in the container; or 2) pressure at the first end of the container caused by compression of the first fluid by the third fluid.

[G01F] MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW, OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME [5]

Radar detector using position detection
Patent No. 12631719

Inventor(s): Gail Babitt (Keller, TX), John Kuhn (Montgomery, OH)
Assignee(s): CEDAR ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS CORP. (Rolling Meadows, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18231658 on 08/08/2023 (1015 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a radar detector that aids in management of unimportant sources, dynamically improving handling of such sources based upon previously-stored geographically-referenced information on such sources. The detector determines location of the detector, and compares it to locations of known sources, to improve handling of such detections. The detector may ignore detections received in an area known to contain a stationary source, or may only ignore specific frequencies or handle frequencies differently based upon historic trends of spurious police radar signals at each frequency, or based on geofenced locations. GPS is used to establish current physical coordinates. The detector maintains a list of the coordinates of known stationary source ”offenders” and geofence coordinates or boundaries in nonvolatile memory. When a microwave or laser source is detected, it may compare current coordinates to geofence boundaries and/or sources in this list. Notification varies depending on the stored information and current operating modes.

[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

Reliability, alarms, and maintenance for borehole operations
Patent No. 12632030

Inventor(s): Adam Harold Martin (Carrollton, TX), Adan H. Herrera (Carrollton, TX), Alexander Simon Chretien (Houston, TX), Allan Silva Freitas (Macae, , BR), Dale E. Jamison (Houston, TX), Daniel Joshua Stark (Carrollton, TX), Dion Billard (Houston, TX), Hunter Reid Faucher (Houston, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18091332 on 12/29/2022 (1237 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user can define an evaluation algorithm at a borehole system using sensor parameters collected at one or more locations throughout the borehole and equipment used at the borehole. The evaluation algorithm can implement statistical analysis on the parameters collected. The evaluation algorithm can combine two or more parameters to generate complex parameter relationships. The evaluation algorithm can implement one or more alarms using the analysis of the parameters. The alarms can specify levels or thresholds for different types or severities of alarms. Alerts can be defined using the alarms where the alerts are communicated to users or borehole systems for action. The evaluation algorithms can be packaged and forwarded for a technical review and a business management review, where evaluation algorithms that are approved can be made available to other users or at other borehole systems. Evaluation algorithms can be made available to select borehole systems or borehole operations.

[G05B] CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (fluid-pressure actuators or systems acting by means of fluids in general F15B; valves per se F16K; characterised by mechanical features only G05G; sensitive elements, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. G12B, subclasses of G01, H01; correcting units, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. H02K)

Systems and methods for operating a three-dimensional printer to print a part for a property
Patent No. 12632034

Inventor(s): Ashley Raine Philbrick (San Antonio, TX), Breanna Nicole Allerkamp (Boerne, TX), Bryan J. Osterkamp (New Braunfels, TX), Carol Lyn Lawrence (Fair Oaks Ranch, TX), Courtney Evans (Forney, TX), Kristina Suniga-Cabrera (San Antonio, TX), Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX), Pooja Krishnaswamy (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18203471 on 05/30/2023 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional parts system includes a sensor configured to provide data indicative of conditions at or near a property associated with a consumer and a three-dimensional printer configured to print a part of the property. The three-dimensional parts system also includes one or more processors configured to monitor the data from the sensor; access a maintenance schedule for the property; determine an automatic request to print the part based on the data from the sensor, a recommended replacement time indicated by the maintenance schedule, or both; and in response to the automatic request, instruct the three-dimensional printer to print the part.

Method for providing logging for persistent memory
Patent No. 12632196

Inventor(s): Bryan Hornung (Plano, TX), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18900002 on 09/27/2024 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, memory devices, and machine-readable mediums that allows an application of a computer system to create a series of one or more logs of writes to one or more memory locations of a memory device. The logs may comprise the values at the end of the log interval of the one or more memory locations that were written to during a log interval. In some examples, the logs do not include intermediate writes to the one or more memory locations (only the final value) and do not include values of memory locations that were not written to during the interval. After an event, software can apply these logs to a copy of the original memory region state to recover the contents of the locations at any of the logged points. These logs may be useful to recreate the state of the memory at various points during the application’s execution.

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

Initialization information storage virtualization system
Patent No. 12632199

Inventor(s): David Craig Lawson (Richardson, TX), Douglas Lang Farley (Round Rock, TX), Srinivas Giri Raju Gowda (Fremont, CA), Trevor Christian Cockrell (Hutto, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18772430 on 07/15/2024 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: An initialization information storage virtualization system includes a resource system that is coupled to a resource management system and that includes a processing system coupled to a System Control Processor (SCP) device. The SCP device creates a virtual initialization information storage and a virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) in its secure memory subsystem. The SCP device then receives resource system initialization information and resource system initialization authentication information for the resource system from the resource management system, populates the virtual initialization information storage with the resource system initialization information, and populates the vTPM with the resource system initialization authentication information. When the SCP device receives an initialization information request from the processing system, the SCP device provides the resource system initialization information and the resource system initialization authentication information to the processing system.

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

Reconfiguration for a multi-channel audio system
Patent No. 12632211

Inventor(s): Ankit Garg (Bangalore, , IN), Lokesh Kumar Botcha (New Delhi, , IN), Supriyo Palit (Bangalore, , IN), Venkata Mohana Vamsi Voora (Eluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18476420 on 09/28/2023 (964 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes an amplifier having an input. An interface has inputs and an output. The interface is configured to: invert each bit of a value received at a first input of the interface to produce an inverted value; and provide the inverted value at the output. A processor has an input coupled the output of the interface, has first output coupled to a second input of the interface, and has a second output coupled to the input of the amplifier. The processor is configured to determine whether to set an adjustable gain setting of an audio processing block to the inverted value.

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

Multi-dimensional FFT computation pipelined hardware architecture using Radix-3 and Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterflies
Patent No. 12632218

Inventor(s): Indu Prathapan (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Ramasubramanian (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, , IN), Pankaj Gupta (Dausa, , IN), Sujaata Ramalingam (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18753107 on 06/25/2024 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly stages, each including first and second Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly circuits, in which the first Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly circuit of a first Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly stage includes a data input coupled to a system data input, and one of the first Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly circuit and the second Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly circuit of a last Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly stage includes a data output coupled to a system data output. The system further includes a Radix-3 butterfly circuit including a data input coupled to the system data input and a data output selectively couplable to a data input of one of the first or second Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly circuits of a second or later Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly stage based on a particular point transform to be performed by the system. A set of memories are used by either the first Radix-2[superscript]2 [/superscript]butterfly stage or the Radix-3 butterfly circuit, depending on the particular point transform.

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

Approach to user provisioning when shifting a non-cloud platform to the cloud
Patent No. 12632239

Inventor(s): George Irizarry (Celina, TX), Jeremy Wellmeier (Hilliard, OH), Kanishka Hettiarachchi (Chatham, NJ), Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Prosper, TX), Ricky Chan (Woodside, NY), Robert Kong (Flushing, NY), Robert Spinelli (Hazlet, NJ), Ross Indyke (NY, NY), Vijaya Basker Balakrishnan (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18516575 on 11/21/2023 (910 days app to issue)

Abstract: Per one example embodiment, a method is provided of shifting an OS (operating system) and associated native application platform from a private network to a cloud-based target environment, where the OS comprises an operating system not configured for web access. An image of the OS is provided that is suitable for installation on a target virtual machine in the cloud-based target platform. In lieu of moving user credentials of numerous current private network-based users of the OSnative application platform to the target environment, a passwordless credential-based OS command level communication brokering service is provided at the cloud-based target environment.

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

Programmable event testing
Patent No. 12632262

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: 17956970 on 09/30/2022 (1327 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)

Resource transmission based on time intervals
Patent No. 12632309

Inventor(s): Michael Draayer (Sioux Falls, SD), Shankar Ramachandran (Frisco, TX), Stephanie G. Smith (Sioux Falls, SD)
Assignee(s): Citibank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19274175 on 07/18/2025 (305 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for time-based resource allocation are disclosed herein. A system receives requests for intermediate allocation of a set of resources during a first period of time. Each request may include a target entity to receive a portion of the intermediate allocation and a user-linked resource token. The system determines a first subset of the set of resources for which a final allocation of resources from the user is requested when the first period is elapsed. During the first period, the system transfers the set of resources to target entities. During a second period, the system receives a message from a target entity indicating a return of at least a portion of the intermediate allocation. The system updates the set of resources and calculates an updated first subset of resources. Responsive to determining that the second period is elapsed, the system may automatically transmit a resource allocation command configured to trigger final allocation.

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

Systems and methods for edge resource demand load estimation
Patent No. 12632318

Inventor(s): Said Tabet (Austin, TX), William Jeffery White (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): DELL PRODUCTS L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18366549 on 08/07/2023 (1016 days app to issue)

Abstract: Managing the resource demand load for edge systems is significantly more complex than for other systems, such as cloud environments. Embodiments herein provide edge resource demand load estimation systems and methods that inform scheduling and associated edge orchestration to ensure that edge system resource capacity is appropriately utilized. Efficient utilization allows an increased number of applications to be deployed at a reduced level of reserved resources. Also presented are embodiments of assurance mechanisms for monitoring edge resource demand load characterizations. In one or more embodiments, when an estimate or estimates are deemed to not be valid (e.g., having experienced stationary drift), updated estimates may be obtained.

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

Autonomous supply chain data hub and platform
Patent No. 12632426

Inventor(s): Rubesh Mehta (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Blue Yonder Group, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18585478 on 02/23/2024 (816 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of autonomous data hub processing that uses semantic metadata, machine learning models, and a permissioned blockchain to autonomously standardize, identify and correct errors in supply chain data is disclosed. Embodiments input supply chain data stored in a supply chain database, train with the machine learning model trainer, one or more machine learning models to identify one or more data errors in the supply chain data, clean the one or more identified data errors from the supply chain data, and store cleaned supply chain data. Embodiments also update one or more machine learning models to identify one or more data errors in cleaned supply chain data, and join and aggregate one or more sets of cleaned supply chain data.

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

Difference-specific database update
Patent No. 12632439

Inventor(s): Arvind Sodhi (Plain City, OH), Jayakrishna Venkatesh (Frisco, TX), Narendran Sreedharan (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18774206 on 07/16/2024 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a data storage system may receive target data associated with a first set of rows and a first set of columns. The data storage system may receive historical data associated with a second set of rows and a second set of columns. The data storage system may identify a set of differences between the target data and the historical data. The data storage system may perform, based on the set of differences between the target data and the historical data, a difference-specific update to a target database storing the historical data.

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

Systems, methods, and media for monitoring the integrity of electronic datasets
Patent No. 12632441

Inventor(s): Amritraj D. Naik (Karnataka, , IN), Ganesh Bonangi (Justin, TX), Gladwin Anthony Raj Jesuraj (Chennai, , IN), Harshita Shrivastava (Bicholi Mardana, , IN), Kevin J. Hunter (Milford, MA)
Assignee(s): FMR LLC (Boston, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18949386 on 11/15/2024 (550 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are provided for monitoring the integrity of a table in a dataset. The table may include one or more columns and one or more rows, in which data elements in the table are associated with a specific row and a specific column. A coverage rule set may be generated based on metadata of the table, which describes attributes of the table and the columns associated with the table. The coverage rule set includes table rules and column rules. A table fault value is generated for each table rule in the coverage rule set and a column fault value is generated for each column rule in the coverage rule set. An error is detected when a table fault value or a column fault value exceeds at least one of a corresponding table rule threshold or a corresponding column rule threshold. A notification is transmitted for error detected.

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

Systems and methods for a platform as a service orchestrator
Patent No. 12632535

Inventor(s): Kelly M. Paone (Chester, NJ), Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18441308 on 02/14/2024 (825 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a platform as a service (PaaS) orchestrator may receive a set of values for a set of parameters of a software component template for a software component. The PaaS orchestrator may generate the software component using the set of values for the set of parameters. The PaaS orchestrator may execute the software component in a sandbox environment. The PaaS orchestrator may validate the software component for deployment. The PaaS orchestrator may deploy the software component in a deployment environment of the PaaS orchestrator. The PaaS orchestrator may detect a network event relating to the deployment environment. The PaaS orchestrator may identify a network management action associated with the network event. The PaaS orchestrator may one or more instructions to cause the network management action to be performed.

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

Language model processing
Patent No. 12632660

Inventor(s): Arpit Gupta (Emeryville, CA), Chandana Satya Prakash (Mountain View, CA), Subendhu Rongali (New York, NY), Wael Hamza (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18541765 on 12/15/2023 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for constraining a language model’s generation/decoding process using a finite state machine are described. A finite state machine may represent information corresponding to APIs, arguments and argument values that are available/supported by the system. In some embodiments, a language model (LM) is constrained to generate tokens representing valid API calls based on the finite state machine. The system may enable generation of argument values from a defined set or free-form generation of argument values. The system may also enable unconstrained generation of a response by the LM. In some embodiments, a trie data structure is used to determine the possible next tokens that the LM can generate from.

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

Time-domain multiplexing of quantum bit control signals
Patent No. 12632763

Inventor(s): Devin Underwood (Bronx, NY), Sudipto Chakraborty (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18329649 on 06/06/2023 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device comprises a control circuit configured to control a plurality of quantum bits. The control circuit comprises a digital-to-analog converter circuit and switching circuitry coupled to an output of the digital-to-analog converter circuit. The switching circuitry is responsive to switch control signals to selectively connect the output of the digital-to-analog converter circuit to one or more of a plurality of signal paths to generate control signals to control the plurality of quantum bits.

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

Systems and methods for mitigating training data baseline shifts in artificial intelligence models comprising moving classifications
Patent No. 12632798

Inventor(s): Ayaz Mehmani (McLean, VA), Ruoyu Shao (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18359568 on 07/26/2023 (1028 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system generates multiple classes of training data depending on their baseline shift. The system then trains a model or ensemble of models leveraging the entire dataset without the need for training them separately. A set of uniform input feature are generated for a user based on profile of the data (e.g., based on a user’s auto loan terms and/or credit history). The system then engineers additional characteristic features based on the time criteria (e.g., based on a time period overlap with the time period of the classes and what class the profile data originated from). The system uses this time criteria (e.g., whether profile data originated from a given class and the amount of overlap of the data with a class) to determine how the feature input is processed through the models.

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

Under-served query identification system
Patent No. 12632800

Inventor(s): Bradley Christopher Turnbull (Frisco, TX), Toma Gulea (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Airbnb, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18753175 on 06/25/2024 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to generate an actual number of search results, a total estimated number of search results based on historical search data in the online marketplace, and a conversion estimated number of search results for users who converted, for a given set of query parameters in an online marketplace. The systems and methods generates a low inventory state metrics based on determining a first probability of getting the actual number of search results plus one given the conversion number of search results, a second probability of getting the actual number of results given the total estimated number of search results, a third probability of getting the actual number of search results given the conversion number of search results and a fourth probability of getting the actual number of search results plus one given the total estimated number of search results

[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]

Dynamic adaptation of identity related user interface
Patent No. 12632801

Inventor(s): Arnab Kumar Bhattacharjee (Hillsborough, NJ), Manohar Perumal (Sugar Hill, GA), Rachel Yuen Lynn Tan (Jersey City, NJ), Russell Dean Brandon (Portland, OR), Sandeep Anand Butapati (Lake Zurich, IL), Soma S Nagasundaram (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19081261 on 03/17/2025 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment computes an Account Booking Location (ABL) from a login request to access an account of a first user, wherein the ABL corresponds to an asset of a partner entity that initiated the account. The embodiment pushes from a repository to a cache for a UI rendering, a UI element corresponding to the ABL. The embodiment causes a rendering service to compose a rendering instruction using the cached data such that the rendering instruction causes a first brand-specific UI to be rendered on a device associated with the first user. When a second login request from a second user also corresponds to the ABL, the embodiment reuses the cached data to compose a second rendering instruction such that the second rendering instruction causes the first brand-specific UI to be rendered on a second device associated with the second user.

Systems and methods for detecting attrition in a distributed network using artificial intelligence
Patent No. 12632815

Inventor(s): James Matthew West (Carrollton, TX), Michael J. Oberle (Waxhaw, NC), Robert M. McMillon, II (Cumming, GA)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18376799 on 10/04/2023 (958 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for detecting attrition in a distributed network using artificial intelligence. Some embodiments are directed to a system including a first artificial intelligence engine configured to determine indicators of relationships between users and entities and a second artificial intelligence engine configured to determine statuses of relationships between the users and the entities. The system may determine, using the first artificial intelligence engine, and based on data associated with interactions between a user and an entity, a plurality of indicators of a relationship between the user and the entity. The system may determine, based on the plurality of indicators, based on the data associated with the interactions between the user and the entity, and using the second artificial intelligence engine, a status of the relationship between the user and the entity.

Advanced prediction of shipping attributes of a package in a dispensing pharmacy
Patent No. 12632820

Inventor(s): Hommy Lopez (Plainfield, IL), Juston Oakes (San Angelo, TX), Scott Martin (Mead, CO)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17566844 on 12/31/2021 (1600 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technologies are provided for advanced prediction of shipping attributes of a package in a dispensing pharmacy. In some embodiments, a computing system can receive prescription data identifying one or more amounts of respective medications, and can generate, using the prescription data, an estimate of weight of a package containing the one or more amounts of the respective medications. The computing system can then cause, at a time before automated packing of the respective medications into the package, a second computing system to provide shipping data for the package. The shipping data includes first data defining a shipping label. The second computing system can be remotely located relative to the computing system. The computing system can receive the shipping data at a second time before the automated packing of the respective medications into the package, and also can store the shipping data in a storage device.

Analogue ticket exchange systems and methods
Patent No. 12632837

Inventor(s): Charles Daniel Cocanougher (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18578186 on 04/26/2023 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for providing frictionless transfer of tickets at a venue comprising: a server system comprising at least one server, a processor, and a database; at least one user device; and at least one unique ticket ID corresponding to a particular seat or ticket; wherein the server performs the following method: accessing the system via the user device and identifying a first ticket corresponding to an event, said first ticket having a unique ticket ID; validating ownership of the first ticket through a confirmation process by validating the unique ticket ID and storing the same within the database; identifying a second ticket for exchange; and confirming the exchange of the first ticket and the second ticket.

Systems and methods for continuously updating and runtime processing of decisioning
Patent No. 12632900

Inventor(s): Aaron Mercurio (Pleasantville, NY), Gayatri Prabhu (Keller, TX), Hemant D Patil (Plano, TX), Jegatheeswaran Pandian (Monroe, NJ), Joyesh Sengupta (Newark, DE), Matthew Hoke (Audubon, NJ), Melissa Feldsher (New York, NY), Nikunj Tanna (Newark, DE), Rasik Goyal (Newark, DE), Sameer Avate (Little Elm, TX), Sanjay Durgadin (Hockessin, DE), Selva Dharmara (Wilmington, DE), Vidyasankar Narayanan (New Castle, DE), Zachary R Warman (Wheaton, IL)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18313171 on 05/05/2023 (1110 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, at a transaction decisioning platform, a customer pre-approval notification; receiving, at the transaction decisioning platform, a stream of transactions, wherein the transactions are associated with a demand deposit account and the demand deposit account is associated with a customer; receiving, at the transaction decisioning platform, a total finance amount for the customer; applying a transaction eligibility rule to each transaction in the stream of transactions; determining, based on application of the transaction eligibility rule, that one of the transactions from the stream of transactions is eligible for a credit product; determining, based on a customer eligibility variable, that the customer is eligible for the credit product; and including the one of the transactions from the stream of transactions on an eligible transaction list.

Off-chain abstraction mechanism for distributing non-fungible tokens in an educational environment
Patent No. 12632911

Inventor(s): Erika D. Lambert (Flower Mound, TX), James L. Rockett, Jr. (Carrollton, TX), Randy M. Whelan (Coppell, TX), Robert M. Beaty (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): RedCritter Corp. (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17703444 on 03/24/2022 (1517 days app to issue)

Abstract: An off-chain abstraction mechanism for distributing NFTs in an educational or similar environment is provided. The off-chain abstraction mechanism abstracts away required knowledge and activities that are directly involved in the issuance to and collection of NFTs both on and off-chain by students thereby allowing teachers to focus simply on rewarding desired behaviors by issuing digital coins to students. Teachers can distribute digital coins to students that are grouped into teams as part of a game or challenge. Digital coins can be associated with a point value that can be added to a team’s score during a round of the game. A school administrator can declare a round complete at which point the teams” scores can be used to identify one or more winning teams. Off-chain NFTs can then be distributed to the students of a winning team. The students may view their off-chain NFTs at any time. Also, students desiring to do so may redeem an off-chain NFT for a matching on-chain NFT. A voucher mechanism can be implemented to prevent students from minting NFTs that they have not earned.

Semiconductor molding system and foreign object detection method
Patent No. 12632953

Inventor(s): Desen Wang (Chengdu, , CN), Zhigang Feng (Chengdu, , CN)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18533022 on 12/07/2023 (894 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor molding system is provided that includes a molding device, an image collection device, and a controller connected to the molding device and the image collection device. The image collection device is configured to obtain a target image of a to-be-molded lead frame before the to-be-molded lead frame is molded by the molding device. The controller is configured to determine whether foreign object(s) exist in a non-molding area of the to-be-molded lead frame based on the target image of the to-be-molded lead frame and a reference image. A method for detecting foreign objects of a to-be-molded lead frame is also provided.

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

Vehicle listing image detection and alert system
Patent No. 12633110

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Frisco, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (Mckinney, TX), Jason Richard Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18172098 on 02/21/2023 (1183 days app to issue)

Abstract: An image error identification system retrieves an image associated with a vehicle listing and uses various machine learning models to classify the image and generate identification data that may include a vehicle make, model, trim level, and/or various features of the vehicle present in the image. The identification data is compared to the rest of the vehicle listing to detect a mismatch between the image and the vehicle listing. An alert is generated, when a mismatch is detected, indicating the one of the image or the data in the vehicle listing is incorrect.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Method and system for identity verification
Patent No. 12633162

Inventor(s): Aravinth Muthu (Ganapathy, , IN), Hariprasad P S (West Mambalam, , IN), Manideep Kolla (Nellore, , IN), Vignesh Krishnakumar (Chennai, , IN)
Assignee(s): HYPERVERGE INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18157047 on 01/19/2023 (1216 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for authenticating an image is given. The method encompasses capturing a first image comprising at least one first human object and a second ID image; detecting at least one face of one first human object and processing the first human object based on face attribute checks, face quality checks, and face manipulation checks; performing a liveness check of the identification document to crop and align the region of interest; detecting a face of the at least one second human object; performing ID quality checks and ID tampering checks on the region of interest of the identification document; determining the image face feature vector and an ID card face feature vector; determining a match score between the image face feature vector and the ID card face feature vector and a status indicating one of authentication success, authentication failure, or a requirement for manual review of the image.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Automated customization virtual ecosystem
Patent No. 12633226

Inventor(s): Sara Shenkan (Forth Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): JUST RIGHT READER INC. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18444387 on 02/16/2024 (823 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method can be provided for automatically generating customized content. For example, the method can involve providing text content to a user. The text content can include a unique identifier. The unique identifier can link to a content portal unique for the user. The method can further involve receiving an input corresponding to the unique identifier. The input can be received via a user device. Additionally, the method can involve automatically launching the content portal in a browser of the user device. The method can further involve autogenerating customized content for the user. The customized content can include an eBook and the customized content can be customized based on a skill level of the user and on an interest of the user.

[G09B] EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS

Rolling video buffer apparatus
Patent No. 12633273

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas, TX), Jeffrey S. Farris (Flower Mound, TX), Kevin Ross Tomei (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18326887 on 05/31/2023 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a display device configured to display frames of images, a memory coupled to the display device and configured to store image data representing a sequence of the frames, and a memory controller coupled to the memory. The memory controller is configured to split a frame in the sequence of frames into a slice count of frame slices according to an order of respective frame slice numbers, partition the memory into a number of buffer slices in an ordered sequence wherein the number of buffer slices is greater than or equal to the slice count, write each frame slice in the sequence of frames to a next free buffer slice in the ordered sequence of buffer slices, read each written frame slice to the display device to display the written frame slice with other displayed frame slices according to the order of the respective frame slice numbers, and return to a first buffer slice in the ordered sequence after writing a frame slice in a last buffer slice in the ordered sequence.

[G09G] ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F 3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F 9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H01L, H05B 33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N 1/00) [5]

Apparatus including multiple high bandwidth memory cubes
Patent No. 12633319

Inventor(s): Lingming Yang (Meridian, ID), Nevil N. Gajera (Meridian, ID), Raghukiran Sreeramaneni (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18642796 on 04/22/2024 (757 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus including a high bandwidth memory circuit and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. The apparatus may include multiple HBM cubes connected to a processor, such as a GPU. The HBM cubes may be connected in series or in parallel. One or more of the HBM cubes can include a secondary communication circuit configured to facilitate the expanded connection between the multiple cubes.

[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)

Switched-capacitor circuit with reduced thermal noise
Patent No. 12633366

Inventor(s): Chiu Yun (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18760517 on 07/01/2024 (687 days app to issue)

Abstract: A switched-capacitor circuit includes a sample and hold stage including an input coupled to a circuit input and including an output. The circuit includes an amplification stage including an input coupled to the output of the sample and hold stage and including an output. The circuit includes an output stage including an input coupled to the output of the amplification stage and an output coupled to the circuit output. The circuit includes a feedback stage including a first terminal coupled to the circuit output, a second terminal coupled to the input of the amplification stage and including a third terminal.

Adjustable healthcare-related data collection
Patent No. 12633405

Inventor(s): Benjamin Phillip Hahn (Austin, TX), Bradley Lawrence Hershey (Carrollton, TX), Kyle Harish Srivastava (Saint Paul, MN)
Assignee(s): Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Valencia, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17943952 on 09/13/2022 (1344 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include at least one data collection platform and an event detector configured to detect an event. The at least one data collection platform may be configured for use to collect healthcare-related data at a defined data resolution for transfer to a data receiving system that may include one or more processors, at least one data input for receiving healthcare-related data, and memory for storing instructions for implementation by the one or more processors to collect healthcare-related data via the at least one data input. The at least one data collection platform may be configured to change the data resolution for collecting healthcare-related data in response to the detected event.

[G16H] HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

Information management system and method
Patent No. 12633424

Inventor(s): Cees de Groot (Berkeley, , CA), Christian Bauer (Frisco, TX), Daven Casia (Saskatoon, , CA), Justin Kearns (Lexington, KY), Keith Boudreau (Durham, NC), Kurt Eulau (San Francisco, CA), Margaret Pilon (Maple Grove, MN), Michael Gruzynski (Seattle, WA), Ophir Ronen (Seattle, WA), Seth Falcon (Minneapolis, MN), Thomas Dziedzic (Elmwood Park, IL)
Assignee(s): CALMWAVE, INC. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18798686 on 08/08/2024 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: monitoring a plurality of data signals associated with one or more patients within a medical environment over a defined period of time; generating a shift-change report for the one or more patients, wherein the shift-change report includes one or more of: a summary of the medical history of the one or more patients over the defined period of time, a recommendation concerning the one or more patients based, at least in part, upon the history of the one or more patients over the defined period of time, and a justification for the recommendation for the one or more patients.

[G16H] HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

System and method for distribution of quantum entanglement using drones
Patent No. 12634017

Inventor(s): David H. Lu (Irving, TX), Eshrat Huda (Hillsborough, NJ), Moshiur Rahman (Marlboro, NJ)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18657400 on 05/07/2024 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system, including: a plurality of drones; a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: deploying one or more drones of the plurality of drones; and distributing entangled qubits via the plurality of drones to one or more ground stations. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Refresh rate detection-based video authentication method and system
Patent No. 12634279

Inventor(s): Andre Rene Buentello (San Antonio, TX), Brian Francisco Shipley (Plano, TX), Brian Tougas (Spring Branch, TX), Christopher Russell (The Colony, TX), David Joaquin Harris (San Antonio, TX), Gideon Bowie Luck (Wylie, TX), Jose L Romero, Jr. (San Antonio, TX), Sean Carl Mitchem (San Antonio, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18174169 on 02/24/2023 (1180 days app to issue)

Abstract: A refresh rate detection-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource is disclosed. The user provides image data in which they present a secondary computing device which, in response to a signal from the authentication system, employ a dynamic refresh rate when displaying visual content. The system and method are configured to evaluate the image data to determine whether the dynamic refresh rate pattern is present. If a change in the refresh rate is present, the system determines the image is authentic and can verify an identity of the person. In some cases, the system can further be configured to then automatically grant the person access to one or more services, features, or information for which he or she is authorized.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Managing sanitization of data processing systems using out-of-band methods
Patent No. 12632580

Inventor(s): Abeye Teshome (Austin, TX), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, TX), Amy Christine Nelson (Round Rock, TX), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, TX), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, TX), Mohit Arora (Frisco, TX), Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, TX), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, TX), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP
Application No., Date, Speed: 18498324 on 10/31/2023 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a data processing system are disclosed. A management controller of the data processing system may provide a sanitization request to a policy management server using an out-of-band communication channel. The management controller may obtain a response to the sanitization request from the policy management server via the out-of-band communication channel. The response may indicate whether performance of a sanitization process is authorized. The authorization may be based on a sanitization policy that governs sanitizations for the data processing system. If performance of the sanitization process is authorized, then the management controller may initiate and/or perform an action set based on the sanitization policy in order to complete the sanitization process, thereby placing the data processing system in a safe state.

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

Signaling camera parameters in point cloud coding
Patent No. 12632991

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Moguillansky (Addison, TX), Jianle Chen (San Diego, CA), Vladyslav Zakharchenko (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18916675 on 10/15/2024 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a plurality of two dimensional (2D) patches in an atlas frame and a camera offset for a camera. The patches are decoded and converted to a three dimensional (3D) patch coordinate system to obtain a point cloud frame. An offset matrix is determined based on the camera offset. The offset is then applied matrix to the point cloud frame.

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

Passive/active base station antenna systems having passive reflector assemblies with an opening for an active antenna array
Patent No. 12633648

Inventor(s): Haifei Qin (Suzhou, , CN), Jiajia Ni (Suzhou, , CN), Jiaping Xu (Suzhou, , CN), MeiHua Yin (Suzhou, , CN), Nengbin Liu (Suzhou, , CN), PuLiang Tang (Suzhou, , CN), Qiang Liu (Suzhou, , CN), Xiaoan Fu (Suzhou, , CN), Xiaohua Tian (Suzhou, , CN), Xun Zhang (Suzhou, , CN), YueMin Li (Suzhou, , CN)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18203681 on 05/31/2023 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: A base station antenna comprises a reflector assembly and a first radiating element having a first feed stalk and a first radiator. A base of the first feed stalk is adjacent the reflector assembly and the first radiator is adjacent a distal end of the first feed stalk. A center of the first radiator is offset from the base of the first feed stalk in a longitudinal direction that is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the base station antenna.

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

Ultra-wide bandwidth low-band radiating elements
Patent No. 12633672

Inventor(s): Kumara Swamy Kasani (Godavari Khani, , IN), Vijay Srinivasan (Salcette, , IN)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18051625 on 11/01/2022 (1295 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dipole antenna includes a reflector, a radiating element, and a feed element. The radiating element includes first and second dipoles above a surface of the reflector. The first and second dipoles respectively include arm segments and are arranged in a crossed dipole arrangement. The feed element includes first and second conductive transmission lines that are electrically isolated from one another and are capacitively coupled to the arm segments of the first and second dipoles, respectively. The arm segments of the first and second dipoles are between the feed element and the surface of the reflector.

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

Antenna systems
Patent No. 12633679

Inventor(s): George Alexander Bednekoff (Plano, TX), Michael A. Neenan (Plano, TX), Rauhon Ahmed Shaik (Wylie, TX), Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Parsec Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18616004 on 03/25/2024 (785 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna assembly can include a cover, a base, an internal ground plane, a PCB, and a multi-band antenna. The base can be coupled to the cover to define an internal volume, with the internal ground plane positioned there between. The PCB can include a base PCB portion and a first PCB portion. The multi-band antenna can comprise a radiating element formed on the first PCB portion, the radiating element comprising an upright radiating portion and a head radiating portion. The radiating element can be configured to move from a first configuration prior to engagement with the cover to a second configuration when the cover is coupled to the base. In the first configuration, the upright radiating portion can be coplanar to the head radiating portion, and in the second configuration, the upright radiating portion can be at an angle relative to the head radiating portion.

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

Amplifier with overvoltage protection
Patent No. 12633882

Inventor(s): Jordan Herschell Wenske (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17829344 on 05/31/2022 (1449 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a circuit includes a reference voltage, a driving circuit with a driving input and a driving output, an output transistor, and a clamp circuit with a clamp input and a clamp output. The output transistor includes a source, a drain, and a gate; the source is coupled to receive the reference voltage. The clamp input is coupled to the driving output and to the gate. The clamp output is coupled to either the driving input or to the driving output, the gate, and the clamp input. The clamp circuit is configured to detect an operating region of the output transistor and to generate a clamping current after the output transistor enters a triode region. The clamping current is selected to prevent an absolute value of a source-gate voltage of the output transistor from equaling or exceeding a gate oxide tunneling voltage of the output transistor.

[H03F] AMPLIFIERS (measuring, testing G01R; optical parametric amplifiers G02F; circuit arrangements with secondary emission tubes H01J 43/30; masers, lasers H01S; dynamo-electric amplifiers H02K; control of amplification H03G; coupling arrangements independent of the nature of the amplifier, voltage dividers H03H; amplifiers capable only of dealing with pulses H03K; repeater circuits in transmission lines H04B 3/36, H04B 3/58; application of speech amplifiers in telephonic communication H04M 1/60, H04M 3/40)

ECG interference suppression
Patent No. 12633906

Inventor(s): Aatish Chandak (Bangalore, , IN), Anand H Udupa (Bangalore, , IN), Aravind Miriyala (Bangalore, , IN), Raja Reddy Patukuri (Bengaluru, , IN), Sachin Aithal (Bangalore, , IN), Sandeep Oswal (Bangalore, , IN), Vignesh Subramanya (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18589715 on 02/28/2024 (811 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes an interference frequency tracking circuit, a PLI synthesizer circuit, and a summing circuit. The interference frequency tracking circuit is configured to track a frequency of an interference signal derived from a target signal, and provide a frequency selection value representing the frequency of the interference signal. The PLI synthesizer circuit is configured to generate, based on the frequency selection value, a correction signal at the frequency of the interference signal, adjust a phase of the correction signal to match a phase of the interference signal in the target signal, and adjust an amplitude of the correction signal to match an amplitude of the interference signal in the target signal. The summing circuit is configured to subtract the correction signal from the target signal.

[H03D] DEMODULATION OR TRANSFERENCE OF MODULATION FROM ONE CARRIER TO ANOTHER (masers, lasers H01S; circuits capable of acting both as modulator and demodulator H03C, e.g. balanced modulators H03C 1/54; details applicable to both modulators and frequency-changers H03C; demodulating pulses which have been modulated with a continuously-variable signal H03K 9/00; transforming types of pulse modulation H03K 11/00; relay systems, e.g. repeater stations H04B 7/14; demodulators adapted for digitally modulated-carrier systems H04L 27/00; synchronous demodulators adapted for colour television H04N 9/66)

Inverse voltage-to-current conversion circuit
Patent No. 12633911

Inventor(s): Wei Wu (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18644284 on 04/24/2024 (755 days app to issue)

Abstract: An inverse voltage-to-current conversion circuit for providing a current that is inversely related to an input voltage of a protected device is disclosed. A first input terminal for receiving a first input voltage signal and a second input terminal for receiving a second input voltage signal. A voltage-to-time converter circuit provides a time indicator pulse signal with a pulse width related to inverse of a difference between the first and second input voltage signals. A time-to-voltage converter circuit provides a voltage indicator signal having a magnitude based on the pulse width of the time indicator pulse signal. A voltage-to-current converter circuit provides a current indicator signal having a magnitude proportional to the voltage indicator signal and inversely related to the difference between the first and second input voltage signals.

[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]

Near-landauer reversible skyrmion logic with voltage-based propagation
Patent No. 12633927

Inventor(s): Alexander J. Edwards (Melissa, TX), Benjamin W. Walker (Richardson, TX), Joseph S. Friedman (Dallas, TX), Xuan Hu (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18416395 on 01/18/2024 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for skyrmion based processing is provided. The method comprises generating a number of skyrmions. The skyrmions are moved down a skyrmion racetrack using a multi-phase voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) clock. A number of logical operations are performed with zero or more skyrmions belonging to the same clock cycle that meet at a logical junction. Outputs of the logical operations fan out to other logic gates for computation of any arbitrary combinatorial function.

Hybrid fractional phase-locked loop
Patent No. 12633932

Inventor(s): Karthikeyan Gunasekaran (Bangalore, , IN), Shalu Francis (Kozhikode, , IN), Viswanathan Nagarajan (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18901041 on 09/30/2024 (596 days app to issue)

Abstract: A phase-locked loop circuit including a phase detector having a reference clock input; a charge pump having an input coupled to an output of the phase detector; a non-integrating loop filter having an input coupled to an output of the charge pump; a voltage adder having a first input coupled to an output of the loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having an input coupled to an output of the voltage adder; and a first frequency divider having an input coupled to an output of the VCO, and an output coupled to the second input of the phase detector. The circuit further includes frequency control circuitry that has an input coupled to the output of the VCO, a reference clock input, and an output coupled to a second input of the voltage adder.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a use of MU-MIMO in respect of frequency bands, including the FR2 frequency bands
Patent No. 12633971

Inventor(s): Jianchun Zhou (Bellevue, WA), Ratish Upadhyay (Frisco, TX), Yakun Gao (Suwanee, GA)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18457474 on 08/29/2023 (994 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, performing a first analysis in respect of a first carrier, the first carrier operative in accordance with a frequency included in a frequency range from 24.25 GHz to 52.60 GHz, inclusive, determining, based on the performing of the first analysis, that a first user equipment (UE) is to be paired with at least one other UE as part of a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) topology in the first carrier, resulting in a first determination, and subjecting the first UE to the MU-MIMO in the first carrier in accordance with the first determination. Other embodiments are disclosed.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

CSI reporting in MIMO communication systems
Patent No. 12633987

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Gilwon Lee (McKinney, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18516860 on 11/21/2023 (910 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for channel state information (CSI) reporting in next generation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving information about a CSI report, the report based on at least two components: a set of basis entities and a set of coefficients; based on the information, determining the set of basis entities and the set of coefficients; and transmitting the CSI report including at least one indicator indicating at least one of the set of basis entities and the set of coefficients. The set of basis entities is based on X dimensions. The set of coefficients is not based on the X dimensions and is from a set of convolutional-based coefficients. X is associated with the CSI report and X1.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Methods and apparatuses of downlink positioning reference signal configuration
Patent No. 12634086

Inventor(s): Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. (Dongguan, , CN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18368377 on 09/14/2023 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration are provided. The method includes receiving, at a terminal device, information for configuring one or more DL PRS resource sets and configurating the terminal device according to the received information for configuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets. Each of the DL PRS resource set includes one or more DL PRS resources, and corresponds to a spatial transmission filter. The spatial transmission filter corresponds to a first value.

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

Sub band full duplex base station method and apparatus and 6G user equipment
Patent No. 12634101

Inventor(s): Robert Olesen (Huntington, NY), Soheil Rostami (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19366324 on 10/22/2025 (209 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed by a subband full duplex (SBFD) compliant base station is disclosed herein. The method comprises transmitting a first indication of first SS/PBCH blocks of an SCELL of the base station and transmitting a second indication by way of a MAC CE, wherein the second indication configures second on demand SS/PBCH blocks, wherein the MAC CE specifies a number N of on-demand SSB bursts on the SCELL and an SFN offset. The method further comprises transmitting configuration information for a SRS transmission corresponding to the SCELL, wherein the configuration information for the SRS transmission includes power control settings for SBFD symbols and power control settings for non-SBFD symbols. The base station may transmit DCI on the SCELL which indicates whether the DCI corresponds to a dynamic grant or a static grant. Data is transmitted on subbands, based on the DCI, and SRS is received.

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

Multimode heterogeneous IoT networks
Patent No. 12634129

Inventor(s): Tiehong Wang (Plano, TX), Tiejun Wang (Alexandria, VA)
Assignee(s): Innovation Sciences, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19240018 on 06/17/2025 (336 days app to issue)

Abstract: A novel IoT network, methods of making, structure and functions, and method of use are disclosed.

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

Autonomous cybersecurity operations center utilizing micro-model architecture
Patent No. 12634190

Inventor(s): Alon Yotvat (Dallas, TX), Mark Kurman (Binyamina, , IL), Tom Findling (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Conifers Technologies, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18952274 on 11/19/2024 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for improving security operations center (SOC) response to cybersecurity events is presented. The method includes extracting data from a plurality of data sources of a computing environment; receiving a plurality of data guidelines respective of the computing environment; configuring a plurality of micro-models of a SOC system based on: the extracted data and the plurality of data guidelines; receiving a ticket record, the ticket record generated based on an event in the computing environment; processing the ticket record utilizing a portion of the plurality of micro-models; generating a mitigation action based on the processed ticket record; and initiating the mitigation action in the computing environment.

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

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for Wi-Fi metric-based alarms for cloud based Wi-Fi networks
Patent No. 12634209

Inventor(s): Adam R. Hotchkiss (Dallas, TX), Na Hyun Ha (Cupertino, CA), Nipun Agarwal (Fremont, CA), Rohit Thadani (San Carlos, CA), Sai Venkatraman (Santa Clara, CA), Sandeep Eyyuni (Sunnyvale, CA), William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, CA), Yoseph Malkin (San Jose, CA), Yusuke Sakamoto (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): PLUME DESIGN, INC. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19011967 on 01/07/2025 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and methods include obtaining data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data for Wi-Fi metric based alarms, each Wi-Fi metric based alarm being associated with detection of one of an offline Wi-Fi network of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, an offline node of the Wi-Fi network, instability of the Wi-Fi network, congestion in the Wi-Fi network, and interference in the Wi-Fi network; determining the Wi-Fi metric based alarms based on the analyzing; and performing one or more actions based on the determined Wi-Fi metric based alarms.

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

Enterprise slicing leveraging same UPF instance
Patent No. 12634230

Inventor(s): Amit Pathania (Great Falls, VA), Ash Khamas (Goffstown, NH), Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, TX), Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, VA), Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, VA)
Assignee(s): Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C. (Englewood, CO)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18535759 on 12/11/2023 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for network slicing are provided. In one example, a method includes: selecting a first network slice and a second network slice both pertaining to a common data network, designating a first traffic flow to the first network slice and a second traffic flow to the second network slice, generating a first network slice profile including a first network identifier and first mapping information, generating a second network slice profile including a second network identifier and second mapping information, assigning the first network slice profile to the first traffic flow and the second network slice profile to the second traffic flow, and separating the first traffic flow from the second traffic flow on a user plane function (UPF) instance, based on the assigned first network slice profile and the second network slice profile.

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

Methods and systems for providing network connectivity to a secure access service edge (SASE) domain via an ISP using IP pools
Patent No. 12634261

Inventor(s): Apurva Mehta (Cupertino, CA), Chitresh Yadav (Frisco, TX), Rahul Vaidya (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Versa Networks, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18592205 on 02/29/2024 (810 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and system for providing network connectivity are disclosed. In an example, a method for providing network connectivity involves receiving from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) Internet Protocol (IP) address pool-to-tier mappings, generating an IP address-to-tier mapping at a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) domain from the IP address pool-to-tier mappings, and forwarding traffic received at the SASE domain from a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) of the ISP according to the IP address-to-tier mapping, wherein the traffic is received at the SASE domain from the BNG of the ISP only after access to the ISP is granted using an access ID.

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

Layered authentication and priority access systems and methods
Patent No. 12634270

Inventor(s): Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, TX), Jennifer Hunt Erickson (San Antonio, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18757008 on 06/27/2024 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing dynamic access levels based upon permitted provision of client system data. In particular, proactive blocking of access to protected systems, protected services, or both may be implemented when client system electronic data provision requirements of the protected systems, the protected services, or both are not met.

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

Schema based access management for improved information security
Patent No. 12634291

Inventor(s): Cara Bresnahan (Chicago, IL), Christopher Rice (Charlotte, NC), Dave Middleton (Chicago, IL), David Strommer (Saint Johns, FL), Dhivya Hariharan (Dallas, TX), Jeffrey Sackett (Stanley, NC), Luke Sharief (Libertyville, IL), Nathaniel Clark (Wheaton, IL), Trina Perraut (Alexis, NC)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18220455 on 07/11/2023 (1043 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing platform may generate a schema to prompt for user access information, wherein the user access information includes: 1) a set of authorized users and 2) one or more portions of an information source to which the set of authorized users have access. The computing platform may send, to a first user device, the schema. The computing platform may receive, from the first user device, the user access information. The computing platform may translate the user access information to structured user information, which may include translating the user access information from a first format into a second format. The computing platform may send, to a second user device corresponding to one of the set of authorized users, the structured user information.

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

Systems and methods for correspondence fraud detection
Patent No. 12634316

Inventor(s): Jaclyn Olmos-Lym (San Francisco, CA), Kathryn Lynne Sanders (Charlotte, NC), Kelvin Hay (Hattiesburg, MS), Leo Rinaldi (Matthews, NC), Robin Fulmer (Alvord, TX), Tanisha Patterson-Powe (Huntersville, NC)
Assignee(s): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18637170 on 04/16/2024 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing correspondence fraud detection. An example method includes receiving candidate correspondence associated with a user and extracting, based on one or more artificial intelligence (AI) modeling techniques, correspondence content data from the candidate correspondence. The example method further includes detecting, based on the correspondence content data, a set of correspondence faults associated with the candidate correspondence. The example method further includes generating based on the set of correspondence faults, a fraud likelihood score associated with the candidate correspondence in order to determine an authenticity category for the candidate correspondence, where the authenticity category is indicative of whether the candidate correspondence originated from an enterprise with which the user is associated. The example method further includes providing a correspondence fraud evaluation, where the correspondence fraud evaluation comprises an indication of the authenticity category for the candidate correspondence.

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

Iteratively trained machine learning models for configurations of application protection
Patent No. 12634333

Inventor(s): Grant Stewart Goodes (Manotick, , CA), Jonathan Paterson (Frisco, TX), Nicols Chiaraviglio (Barcelona, , ES)
Assignee(s): Zimperium, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19270384 on 07/15/2025 (308 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for generating protection actions to protect a target application. The system scans a target application to detect a potential risk associated with one or more chunks of code in the target application and determines configuration information of the one or more chunks of code. The system may input scanning results and the configuration information into machine learning models and receive an output including the one or more protection actions. The system applies the protection actions to the target application. Responsive to completing the one or more protection actions, the system re-scans the target application to determine a result of applying the one or more protection actions on the target application.

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

5G network functions to prevent cyber security threats
Patent No. 12634334

Inventor(s): Antonio Irvin (Frisco, TX), Jason W. Rabon (Keller, TX), Patrick Dale Balaze (East Meadow, NY), Shahran Asim (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18425492 on 01/29/2024 (841 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a network request from a second network function, the network request including a parameter; validating the parameter upon receipt of the network request to determine a status of the network request, the status indicating a valid or invalid request; processing, by a first network function, a resource managed by the first network function based on the network request and returning a network response when the status indicates a valid request; and denying the network request and returning an error code when the status indicates an invalid request.

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

Masking a region of multimedia data
Patent No. 12634479

Inventor(s): Kumar Desappan (Karnataka, , IN), Piyali Goswami (Karnataka, , IN), Yashwant Dutt (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18749830 on 06/21/2024 (697 days app to issue)

Abstract: Several methods and systems for masking multimedia data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for masking includes performing a prediction for at least one multimedia data block based on a prediction mode of a plurality of prediction modes. The at least one multimedia data block is associated with a region of interest (ROI). A residual multimedia data associated with the at least one multimedia data block is generated based on the prediction. A quantization of the residual multimedia data is performed based on a quantization parameter (QP) value. The QP value is variable such that varying the QP value controls a degree of masking of the ROI.

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

Motion coding for vertices in inter-coded basemesh frame for dynamic mesh coding
Patent No. 12634511

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Rajan Laxman Joshi (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18754051 on 06/25/2024 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus directed to improvements to motion coding for vertices in an inter-coded basemesh frame is provided. The apparatus receives a compressed bitstream including deduplicate method information and a syntax element, wherein the deduplicate method information indicates whether duplicate vertex information for identifying duplicate vertices is present in the compressed bitstream, the syntax element indicates whether a flag for a duplicate vertex in a submesh frame is present in the compressed bitstream, and the flag indicates whether motion information for the duplicate vertex in the submesh frame is present in the compressed bitstream. If the syntax element indicates that the flag is present in the compressed bitstream, the deduplicate method information indicates that duplicate vertex information for identifying duplicate vertices is not present in the compressed bitstream.

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

Prevention of start code confusion
Patent No. 12634522

Inventor(s): Akira Osamoto (Plano, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Vivienne Sze (Dallas, TX), Yasutomo Matsuba (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18541623 on 12/15/2023 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and a video processor for preventing start code confusion. The method includes aligning bytes of a slice header relating to slice data when the slice header is not byte aligned or inserting differential data at the end of the slice header before the slice data when the slice header is byte aligned, performing emulation prevention byte insertion on the slice header, and combine the slice header and the slice data after performing emulation prevention byte insertion.

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

Streaming scene prioritizer for immersive media
Patent No. 12634541

Inventor(s): Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, CA), Paul Spencer Dawkins (Garland, TX), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, CA)
Assignee(s): TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18137849 on 04/21/2023 (1124 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for immersive media processing. In some examples, a method of media processing includes receiving a scene based immersive media for playing at a light field based display. The scene based immersive media includes a plurality of scenes. The method includes assigning priority values respectively to the plurality of scenes in the scene based immersive media, and determining an order for streaming the plurality of scenes to an end device according to the priority values. In some examples, a method of media processing includes receiving a scene based immersive media for playing at a light field based display. A scene in the scene based immersive media includes a plurality of assets in a first order. The method includes determining a second order for streaming the plurality of assets to an end device, the second order is different from the first order.

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

Light-efficient multispectral fluorescence imaging
Patent No. 12634565

Inventor(s): Lu Yin (Keller, TX), Ramesh Sarangapani (Coppell, TX), Vignesh Suresh (Woodland Hills, CA)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18475390 on 09/27/2023 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system, a computer-implemented method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for light efficient fluorescence imaging. The retina is flashed with broadband light and returned light is imaged after passing through one or more filters, such as notch filers, low-pass filters, and high-pass filters. Images may be captured with a single camera or at least two cameras, one capturing transmitted light from the filter and the other capturing returned light. Images may be combined by subtraction and/or addition to obtain a combined image representing light within a passband whereas no passband filters are used during imaging.

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

Multi-carrier radio point for a centralized radio access network
Patent No. 12634672

Inventor(s): Arthur J. Barabell (Sudbury, MA), Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen (Acton, MA), Santosh Ajjannavar (Belguam, , IN), Shanthakumar Ramakrishnan (Westford, MA)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18156255 on 01/18/2023 (1217 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a multi-carrier radio point for use in a radio access network (RAN). The multi-carrier radio point is configured so that some of the processing and hardware resources provided by the radio point can be assigned to baseband units (BBUs) in a flexible manner. A single multi-carrier radio point can be used with multiple BBUs, where the processing and hardware resources used for the multiple BBUs need not be configured and used in the same way.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for inter-radio access technology handover
Patent No. 12634693

Inventor(s): Ali Imdad Malik (East Brunswick, NJ), Amir Saghir (Frisco, TX), Said Hanbaly (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18464452 on 09/11/2023 (981 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a request for a User Equipment (”UE”) to access a radio access network (”RAN”), which may implement a Closed Subscriber Group (”CSG”) technique. The request may be a handover request from a different RAN, which may implement a different radio access technology (”RAT”). The system may determine that an access policy for the particular RAN does not indicate that the UE is authorized to access the RAN. The system may output a request to the RAN, including an indication that the access policy for the RAN does not indicate that the UE is authorized to access the RAN. The system may receive a response to the second request. The response may include an indication of whether the UE is allowed to access the RAN, as determined by the RAN based on one or more conditions in addition to an identifier of the UE.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Private network management via dynamically determined radio profiles
Patent No. 12634697

Inventor(s): Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, CA), Sergio Aguirre (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18331874 on 06/08/2023 (1076 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a system including: a group of one or more base stations; a radio controller communicatively coupled to the group of base stations and configured to self-identify a current location and identify permissible wireless frequencies based on the current location; a channel manager communicatively coupled to the radio controller configured to scan the permissible wireless channels, identify a subset of the permissible wireless channels within the permissible wireless frequencies, select a radio profile based on the subset of the permissible wireless channels, and transmit the radio profile to the base station; and a gateway communicatively coupled to the base station, the gateway configured to receive and transmit data from a satellite via wireless backhaul.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for Wi-Fi metric-based predictions for cloud based Wi-Fi networks
Patent No. 12634720

Inventor(s): Adam Hotchkiss (Dallas, TX), Na Hyun Ha (Cupertino, CA), Nipun Agarwal (Fremont, CA), Rohit Thadani (San Carlos, CA), Sai Venkatraman (Santa Clara, CA), Sandeep Eyyuni (Sunnyvale, CA), William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, CA), Yoseph Malkin (San Jose, CA), Yusuke Sakamoto (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): PLUME DESIGN, INC. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19016765 on 01/10/2025 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and methods include obtaining Wi-Fi network data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers and obtaining customer data for each customer associated with the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, the customer data including call-ins made by customers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data including correlating the call-ins made by customers to the Wi-Fi network data; predicting customer call-ins based on correlations made between the call-ins made by customers and the Wi-Fi network data; and initiating a customer outreach workflow prior to a predicted customer call-in.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for providing network failure and cause code handling in 5G networks
Patent No. 12634723

Inventor(s): Helen Osias Eglip (Sammamish, WA), Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, CA), Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, TX), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18882357 on 09/11/2024 (615 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device may receive historical data identifying historical error data and error data categorizations associated with a first core network and may store the historical data in a data structure. The network device may receive a request associated with a user equipment and may receive error data from the first core network based on the request. The network device may receive network health data identifying load levels and health of the first core network and a second core network. The network device may determine possible cause data identifying causes associated with the error data based on the historical data, the error data, and the network health data. The network device may generate a cause code for the user equipment based on the possible cause data and may provide the cause code to the user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for frequency selective beam management
Patent No. 12634729

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Allen, TX), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Emad N. Farag (Flanders, NJ), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18338149 on 06/20/2023 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for frequency selective beam management (FSBM). A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information indicating one or more channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) resources for FSBM and receiving second information indicating a correspondence between the one or more CSI-RS resources and a plurality of frequency subbands. The method further includes determining, based on the first information, the one or more CSI-RS resources for FSBM and identifying, based on the second information, the correspondence between the one or more CSI-RS resources and the plurality of frequency subbands.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method for coexistence of low latency, low loss and scalable throughput (L4S) and non-L4S traffic in 5G-type networks
Patent No. 12634741

Inventor(s): Moushumi Sen (Bangalore, , IN), Mukesh Taneja (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Mavenir Systems, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18731498 on 06/03/2024 (715 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for optimizing coexistence of low latency, low loss and scalable throughput (L4S) traffic and non-L4S traffic in a 5G wireless system is provided, which method includes one of: a) performing one of i) a flow control between a centralized unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), or ii) radio resource management at the DU, to reduce latency experienced by the L4S traffic; or b) performing one of iii) a flow control between the CU and the DU to facilitate greater frequency of transmission of non-L4S traffic from CU-user plane (CU-UP) to the DU, or iv) radio resource management at the DU, to reduce a scheduling priority metric of a logical channel for the L4S traffic relative to a scheduling priority metric of a logical channel for the non-L4S traffic. To reduce latency of the L4S traffic, the L4S traffic scheduling priority is increased relative to the non-L4S traffic.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for L1/L2-based inter-cell mobility
Patent No. 12634772

Inventor(s): Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, TX), Shiyang Leng (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046383 on 10/13/2022 (1314 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for L1/L2 mobility control in a wireless communication system. A method of a UE comprises receiving, from a BS, a message including L1/L2 mobility configuration information. The method includes measuring, based on a CSI-RS received from at least one candidate cell of candidate BS, L1-reference signal received power (L1-RSRP), L1-reference signal received quality (L1-RSRQ), and L1-signal to interference and noise ratio (L1-SINR) of the at least one candidate cell. The method includes reporting the L1-RSRP, the L1-RSRQ, and the L1-SINR of the at least one candidate cell. The method further includes receiving an L1/L2 signal to trigger a handover (HO) operation to the target cell, wherein the L1/L2 signal includes a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state switch to the target cell.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for network parameter adaptation
Patent No. 12634806

Inventor(s): Aristides Papasakellariou (Houston, TX), Ebrahim MolavianJazi (San Jose, CA), Hongbo Si (Allen, TX), Jeongho Jeon (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18353792 on 07/17/2023 (1037 days app to issue)

Abstract: Network parameter adaptation in a wireless communication system. A method for a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information related to operation states on a cell and second information related to a search space set to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs). A first operation state from the operation states includes first parameters associated with transmissions of channels or signals on the cell in one or more of a power, spatial, time, or frequency domain. A PDCCH from the PDCCHs provides a downlink control information (DCI) format that indicates one or more of the operation states. The method further includes receiving the PDCCH; determining the parameters in the one or more of the power, spatial, time, or frequency domain based on the one or more operation states indicated by the DCI format; and receiving the channels or signals on the cell based on the parameters.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Communication interface for a cellular base station
Patent No. 12634816

Inventor(s): David Winkler (Alexandria, VA), John T. Hanley (Orland Park, IL), Jose Antonio Torres Rabello (Orland Park, IL), Ronald J. Bianchi (Frankfort, IL)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18549075 on 03/03/2022 (1538 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cellular base station that includes a baseband unit, at least one programmable power supply and a communication interface is provided. The baseband unit is in communication with a backhaul communication system and a radio. The at least one programmable power supply is configured to provide power to the radio through a communication circuit. The communication interface is in communication with the programmable power supply. The communication interface is configured to provide communications between the programmable power supply and a remote location regarding the communication circuit.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Positive resource response for a suspended resource
Patent No. 12634863

Inventor(s): Ahmed Akl (Little Elm, TX), Amarnath Jayaramachar (Bangalore, , IN), Doki Satish Kumar Patro (Bangalore, , IN), Yesh Goel (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18158330 on 01/23/2023 (1212 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for providing a positive resource discovery response for a suspended resource. More specifically, some embodiments relate to monitoring an availability status of resources within a network. If a connection between a resource and a monitoring element is interrupted, the status of the resource may be set to ”suspended”. However, the interruption may be temporary or localized in nature, and the resource may still be available to service requests. Accordingly, when the monitoring element receives a resource discovery request for resources that all have the ”suspended” status, the monitoring element may return a discovery response identifying the suspended resources as available instead of providing a response indicating no available resources.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Data transmission during RRC inactive state in wireless communication
Patent No. 12634883

Inventor(s): Jinfang Zhang (Shanghai, , CN), Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Apogee 5G Global, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18140622 on 04/28/2023 (1117 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for wireless communications. A first node receives a first paging message; as a response to receiving the first paging message, executes a first procedure, and the behavior of executing a first procedure comprises transmitting a first message; wherein the first paging message instructs a first radio bearer executing data transmission in RRC_INACTIVE state; the first message at least comprises a CCCH message; whether a first condition set is met is used to determine whether a first sub-message is comprised in the first message, when all conditions in the first condition set are met, the first message does not comprise the first sub-message; when any condition in the first condition set is not met, the first message comprises the first sub-message. The present application effectively supports downlink-triggered Small Data Transmission (SDT).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication
Patent No. 12634923

Inventor(s): Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Apogee 5G Global, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17880620 on 08/03/2022 (1385 days app to issue)

Abstract: A first receiver receives a first signal group and a first signaling; and a first transmitter transmits a second signal in a first time-frequency resource, the second signal carries a first bit block and a second bit block; wherein the first signaling comprises scheduling information of the second signal, a third bit block comprises indication information of whether signal(s) in the first signal group is(are) correctly received, the third bit block is used to generate the first bit block, and a number of bit(s) comprised in the first bit block (a size of the first bit block) is not greater than a number of bit(s) comprised in the third bit block; a priority of the third bit block and a priority of the second bit block are used together to determine a number of bit(s) comprised in the first bit block (a size of the first bit block).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Multi-link operation (MLO) mode selection
Patent No. 12635015

Inventor(s): Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, NC), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal, , CA), Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, TX), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, , CA)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18359619 on 07/26/2023 (1028 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for intelligent multi-link operation (MLO) mode selection are provided. One or more metrics for wireless communication in a wireless network is collected. A set of multi-link operation (MLO) modes available for the wireless communication between a station multi-link device (STA MLD) and a first access point multi-link device (AP MLD) in the wireless network is determined. A first MLO mode of the set of MLO modes is selected based on the one or more collected metrics. The wireless communication is performed using the selected first MLO mode.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method to produce a 3D multilayer semiconductor device and structure
Patent No. 12635163

Inventor(s): Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, CA), Zvi Or-Bach (Haifa, , IL)
Assignee(s): Monolithic 3D Inc. (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19320623 on 09/05/2025 (256 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods of making a 3D multilayer semiconductor device, including: providing a first substrate including a first level, the first level including a first single crystal silicon layer (SCSL); providing a second substrate including a second level, the second level including a second SCSL; performing an epitaxial growth of a SiGe layer on top of the second SCSL; performing an epitaxial growth of a third SCSL on top of the SiGe layer, the third SCSL has an average thickness of less than 2,000 nm; forming second transistors each including a single crystal channel, where forming the second transistors includes growth of a second SiGe layer on top of the third SCSL; forming many metal layers interconnecting the second transistors; and then performing a bonding of the second level onto the first level, where performing the bonding includes making oxide-to-oxide bond zones; and performing removal of a majority of the second SCSL.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

Drain contact extension layout for hard switching robustness
Patent No. 12635167

Inventor(s): Dong Seup Lee (McKinney, TX), Jungwoo Joh (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17499462 on 10/12/2021 (1680 days app to issue)

Abstract: A microelectronic device includes a GaN FET on a substrate such as silicon and a buffer layer of III-N semiconductor material. The GaN FET includes both source contacts and drain contacts to a channel layer of III-N semiconductor material. Source contacts to the source region are placed farther from the gate electrode fingertip than drain contacts to the drain region.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

High-voltage depletion-mode current source, transistor, and fabrication methods
Patent No. 12635221

Inventor(s): Chang Soo Suh (Allen, TX), Maik Peter Kaufmann (Freising, , DE), Michael Lueders (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17548426 on 12/10/2021 (1621 days app to issue)

Abstract: A depletion-mode current source having a saturation current of sufficient accuracy for use as a pre-charge circuit in a start-up circuit of an AC-to-DC power converter is fabricated using an enhancement-mode-only process. The depletion-mode current source can be fabricated on the same integrated circuit (IC) as a gallium nitride field-effect transistor (FET) and resistive and capacitive components used in the start-up circuit, without affecting the enhancement-mode-only fabrication process by requiring additional masks or materials, as would be required to fabricate a depletion-mode FET on the same IC as an enhancement-mode FET. The current source includes a resistive patterned two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) or two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) channel coupled between two terminals and one or more metal field plates extending from one of the terminals and overlying the patterned area of the channel, the field plates being separated from the channel and from each other by dielectric layers.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Zero tempco resistor
Patent No. 12635229

Inventor(s): Mahalingam Nandakumar (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18345833 on 06/30/2023 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit by forming, from a semiconductor layer, a resistor body and an active device feature, in which same process steps are applied to both structures using non-dopant co-implants.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Method of forming a hall sensor with performance control
Patent No. 12635421

Inventor(s): Keith R. Green (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18094631 on 01/09/2023 (1226 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Hall sensor includes a Hall well, such as an implanted region in a surface layer of a semiconductor structure, and four doped regions spaced apart from one another in the implanted region. The implanted region and the doped regions include majority carriers of the same conductivity type. The sensor also includes a dielectric layer that extends over the implanted region, and an electrode layer over the dielectric layer to operate as a control gate to set or adjust the sensor performance. A first supply circuit provides a first bias signal to a first pair of the terminals, and a second supply circuit provides a second bias signal to the electrode layer.

[H10N] ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Merged trenches surrounded by wider trench for isolating semiconductor devices
Patent No. 12635488

Inventor(s): Abbas Ali (Plano, TX), Alexei Sadovnikov (Sunnyvale, CA), Asad Haider (Plano, TX), Guruvayurappan Mathur (Allen, TX), Hao Yang (Allen, TX), Umamaheswari Aghroam (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17977403 on 10/31/2022 (1296 days app to issue)

Abstract: Active semiconductor devices in an integrated circuit are provided lateral electrical isolation by surrounding narrow deep trench isolation regions that are merged at shared portions of the narrow deep trench isolation regions. A wide deep trench isolation region laterally surrounds the merged narrow deep trench isolation regions.

[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]

Molded package with press-fit conductive pins
Patent No. 12635542

Inventor(s): Kwang-Soo Kim (Sunnyvale, CA), Vivek Arora (San Jose, CA), Woochan Kim (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17900446 on 08/31/2022 (1357 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package comprises providing a lead frame having multiple conductive pins coupled thereto; positioning the lead frame within a mold chase and applying a strip of mold compound to the multiple conductive pins along a length of the lead frame; trimming connections between the lead frame and the multiple conductive pins; bending the multiple conductive pins; trimming the strip of mold compound to singulate the multiple conductive pins from each other and from the lead frame to form singulated conductive pins; coupling a singulated conductive pin from among the singulated conductive pins to a substrate such that a portion of the strip of mold compound coupled to the singulated conductive pin is in contact with the substrate and such that a segment of the singulated conductive pin extends vertically in a plane that is orthogonal to the substrate; coupling a semiconductor die to the substrate; and covering the substrate, the semiconductor die, the portion of the strip of mold compound, and part of the singulated conductive pin with a second mold compound, such that a portion of the segment of the singulated conductive pin extends beyond a top surface of the second mold compound.

DESIGN PATENTS

Molcajete
Patent No. D1126678

Inventor(s): Rodolfo Marquez Rivera (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 30015448 on 07/29/2025 (294 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle shock reservoir
Patent No. D1126835

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Casey Christen Jens Christensen (Trenton, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Skylar Hagler (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29988055 on 01/29/2025 (475 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D1126850

Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota, , JP), Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29989225 on 02/11/2025 (462 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D1126851

Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota, , JP), Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29989226 on 02/11/2025 (462 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

Faucet
Patent No. D1127156

Inventor(s): Peyton Michele Hartis (Sachse, TX), Susana Peredo-Muniz (Carmel, IN)
Assignee(s): DELTA FAUCET COMPANY (Indianapolis, IN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29970598 on 10/29/2024 (567 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

Chandelier
Patent No. D1127262

Inventor(s): Kaylin Rowsell (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ARTERIORS HOME (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29900551 on 08/22/2023 (1001 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

Pet kennel
Patent No. D1127304

Inventor(s): David Veness (Fort Worth, TX), Jill Jackson (Arlington, TX), Michael Harper (Fort Worth, TX), Ryan Paxson (Elk Rapids, MI)
Assignee(s): Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 30016482 on 08/04/2025 (288 days app to issue) NULL Patent Class: N/A

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