Category: technology

The Oracle OpenWorld 2019 conference will be held in San Francisco from September 16-19, 2019.  To commemorate Oracle OpenWorld, the blog will highlight a recently-issued Oracle, Inc. patent. U.S. Patent No. 10,360,269 B2 (‘269), issued on July 23, 2019, for “Proxy databases.”  The inventor is Thomas Baby of Auburn, Washington.  The applicant and assignee is …

Monsanto Corp., the Big Ag company which manufactures the weed killer ROUNDUP®, and was the loser in three California jury trials which $2.48 billion in potential damages, in which all the plaintiffs asserted the active ingredient in ROUNDUP, glyphosate, caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), is getting ready for a fourth trial, this time in its …

U.S. Patent No. D844,022 S (‘022) issued on March 26, 2019, for “Computing Device Display Screen with Graphical User Interface.”  It was issued to inventor Shalin Amin, of San Francisco, California.  The applicant/assignee is Uber, Inc. of San Francisco, California, a ride share/ride hailing company.  This patent is a design patent under 35 U.S.C. §171, …

U.S. Patent No. D842,331 S (‘331) issued on March 5, 2019, for “Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Animated Graphical User Interface.”  It was issued to inventors Jisi Guo, Eli Guerron, Craig Dehner, Frank Yoo, Karina van Schaardenburg, and Hernrique Penha, all of San Francisco, California.  The applicant/assignee is Lyft, Inc. of San Francisco, California, …

U.S. Patent No. 10,154,254 B2 (‘254), issued on December 11, 2018, for “Time-of-Flight Depth Sensing for Eye Tracking.”  The inventor is Nicholas Daniel Trail of Bothell, Washington.  The applicant and assignee is Facebook, Inc., of Menlo Park, California, the omniprescient social media company.  The ‘254 specification discloses a headgear for a virtual reality (VR) or …

U.S. Patent No. 10,144,342 B2 (‘342), issued on December 4, 2018, for “Mobile Robot.”  The inventors are Ze Ji of Portsmouth, Great Britain, and Christopher Andrew Smith of Bristol, Great Britain.  The applicant and assignee is Dyson Technology Ltd., of Malmesbury, Great Britain, the tech-focused appliance company.  The ‘342 specification discloses a smart vacuum cleaner …

U.S. Patent No. D835,564 S (‘564) issued on December 11, 2018, for “Wiper.”  It was issued to inventors Franz Von Holzhausen of Malibu, California, David Tadashi Imai of Los Angeles, California, Randy Rodriguez of Torrance, California, and Julien Bilodeau of Los Angeles, California.  The applicant/assignee is Tesla, Inc. of Palo Alto, California, the high-end electric …

U.S. Patent No. 10,109,003 B1 (‘003), issued on October 23, 2018, for “Method, Medium, and System for Enhancing Privacy.”  The inventors are Jon Jenkins of San Francisco, and Catherine Cissy Lee of Mountain View, California.  The applicant and assignee is Pinterest, Inc., of San Francisco, California, the image and pictorial social media company.  The title …

Today is DNA Day, and to honor the occasion, we present a newly issued patent utilizing deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. U.S. Patent No. 10,227,611 B2 (‘611) issued on March 12, 2019, for “Methods and Compositions for RNA-Directed Target DNA Modification and for RNA-Directed Modulation of Transcription.”  It was issued to inventors Jennifer A. Doudna and …