Grapevine-based Solo Brands won a patent for a combustible fuel-burning stove with a top designed to block sparks or embers produced by the stove.

The utility patent fits with the company’s line of outdoor lifestyle products, which include Solo stoves, Chubbies-brand apparel and watersports equipment. The patent filing listed four inventors: Alexander K. Maghsadi of Lewisville, Eric H. Jan of Lehi, Utah, and Jeffrey H. Jan and Spencer H. Jan of Keller.

Solo Brands’ strategy

The company is no stranger to product innovation. So far this year, it has launched a chiminea fire pit topper, a new smokeless fire pit series called Summit and smaller versions of its stainless-steel griddle and A/C misting cooler.

When Solo Brands (OTCQB: SBDS) announced its second-quarter results Aug. 13, President and CEO John Larson discussed the company’s strategy. It has been working to decrease expenses and improve profitability, cash generation and returns on investment, Larson said in a statement released with the financial results. It also is expanding internationally through new distribution agreements in Europe, the U.K. and parts of the Asia-Pacific region.

“Our priorities remain clear: improve demand at Solo Stove and Chubbies, maintain disciplined expense and working capital management, and invest behind the products, markets, and channels that offer the most attractive returns,” Larson said.

Other patents the week of Sept. 8

The Solo Brand patent was one of 132 patents in Dallas-Fort Worth the week of Sept. 8. The region ranked No. 10 of 250 metro areas for patent volume.

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) was the most prolific in terms of patent awards that week. It received 14 patents, including one for a machine-learning accelerator built into SRAM chips and one for a fast Fourier transform radar signal-compression system.

Other notable patents that week included:

Danco Inc. (Irving), a plumbing replacement parts supplier, won a patent for a pop-up stopper and seal that can replace a broken stopper in many existing sink drains.

NTT Data Services LLC (Plano) received a patent for artificial intelligence-based incident ticket management systems.

Spectral MD Inc. (Dallas) received a patent for systems and methods for assessing or predicting the status of wounds such as burns. The company, which changed its name to Spectral AI in 2023 when it listed on Nasdaq, has significant government contracts related to its work using predictive AI to assist with burn wound imaging.

Tango Networks Inc. (Frisco) won a patent for a system that restricts phone calls, texts and data while a vehicle is moving based on the vehicle’s speed.

Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness Index. For additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database.