Local inventor part of 171 patents granted last week

?

According to Dallas Innovates,?the Dallas-Fort Worth area ranked #9 for patent activity out 250 metros. Patents issued included 7-Eleven, Bank of American, Overhead Door Siemens Healthcare and Lockheed Martin. {{more: continue …}}

?

One of those patents was to local resident Don Larson and partner Robert McCarty of Plano. They were working for Lockheed Martin and were granted a patent in the area of ?variable thickness hollow conformal nose cone?.

?

The listings in the article include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. According to reporter QUINCY PRESTON?of Dallas Invents, “Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction.”

?

Patents by classification showed 53 in physics, 51 in electricity, 19 in human necessities, 16 in performing operations/transportation and 15 in mechanical engineering. Several others fell in the categories of fixed construction (8), design patent (8) and chemistry (1).

?

Often long process from filing to patent …?

?

The process from filing to granting a patent is often a long path. Of the current batch the fastest granted was 165 days, the longest was 3,520 days or over nine years.

?

For Larson and McCarthy it was on the long side with 1715 days from application to issue or approximately four and a half years.

?

Abstract: The embodiments relate to a conformal, sometimes referred to as aerodynamic, nose cone, and in particular to a hollow conformal nose cone that is transparent to electromagnetic radiation of a predetermined wavelength, or wavelengths, and that comprises a variable thickness such that the electromagnetic radiation received on an outer surface of the nose cone forms a predetermined beam pattern within the nose cone. Also disclosed are mechanisms for generating such hollow conformal nose cones.

?

Category: [F42B] EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING; FIREWORKS; AMMUNITION (explosive compositions C06B; fuzes F42C; blasting F42D) [5]

?

Link:?Dallas Innovates