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Patented: Gemma Robotics’ Automated Makeup Application and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 14, 2024. 114 patents granted include: Amazon Technologies' speech signal bandwidth extension using cascaded neural networks, Bank of America's hash-based transaction tagging, Bear Robotics' non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a serving robot, IBM's inline detection and prevention of adversarial attacks, Texas Instruments' streaming engine with short cut start instructions, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's tow hitch connector cover system, and Walmart Apollo's systems, and methods for automatically annotating images.
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UTSW Team Develops New AI Tool To Detect Possible Metastatic Breast Cancer
by | May 22, 2024
The UT Southwestern researchers' noninvasive model uses a standard MRI, paired with machine learning AI, to detect the presence of cancer cells in the lymph nodes under the arms.
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Pizza Hut Names Former PepsiCo and Taco Bell Executives as Global Chief Brand Officer and U.S. CMO, Respectively
by | May 22, 2024
Pizza Hut Hires Former PepsiCo and Taco Bell Executives for Global Chief Brand Officer and U.S. CMO Roles
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Nevada’s ITS Logistics To Open Transportation Center in Fort Worth
by | May 22, 2024
The center will be located in the heart of Fort Worth’s Cultural District and create roughly 300 jobs over the next three to four years, ITS said. It will be ITS Logistics’ second location in Fort Worth after its 1.1-million-square-foot distribution center, which opened last year.
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Completing The QUAD: Mixed‑Use Project Delivers in Uptown Dallas

by | May 22, 2024
Branded by Stream Realty Partners as "a different Dallas," The QUAD features a 12-story office tower said to be "the smartest building" in the city, along with five standalone retail structures. One of the site's many amenities: "the largest indoor high-resolution digital art installation in Texas."
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Cypress Growth Capital’s Oversubscribed Fund V Hits $60M in 43 Days Amid Firm’s Unprecedented Deal Activity
by | May 22, 2024
With 10 investments in the past 15 months and another deal expected to close soon, Cypress Growth Capital is expanding its team to support its growing portfolio. The Dallas-based private equity firm recently welcomed new partner Cliff Sentell with the launch of its fifth fund—and looks to make additional hires in the near term.
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USPTO Seeks Nominations for Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees
by | May 22, 2024
The USPTO anticipates three upcoming vacancies for each committee. Selected members will serve a three-year term beginning Dec. 1, 2024, and can participate in the committees remotely. Nominations must be submitted online on or before July 5.
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Patented: nMetric’s Genetic Algorithm and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 7, 2024. 116 patents granted include: AmplifAI Solutions' use of multiple AI engines to determine a next best action for professional development of employees, ATT's configuring a federated blockchain network, Charles Machine Works' virtual path guidance system, Dell Products' cloud provisioning readiness verification, Discourse.AI's computer-based interlocutor understanding using classifying conversation segments, Futurewei Technologies' primary preview region and gaze-based driver distraction detection, Hewlett Packard's automatic notifications for expired subscriptions, and more.
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California Water Treatment Company Opens New Production Facility in North Texas

by | May 21, 2024
HASA is a provider of "safe, clean, and clear water treatment" for recreational, municipal, and industrial water sanitization. Its new package product manufacturing facility in Rhome is its third facility in Texas.
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Subaru of America To Relocate Its Central Region Office from Illinois to North Texas
by | May 21, 2024
The auto maker's new Dallas Business Center in Coppell will be co-located with Subaru's existing distribution and training facility as part of a 200,000-square-foot expansion project with logistics real estate giant Prologis.
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The Last Word: Asset Panda’s Girish Kotte on Why Algorithms ‘Can’t Feel the Market Pulse’
by | May 21, 2024
In a LinkedIn post, he offers his "controversial take" that AI won't make humans obsolete in sectors like the stock market. Why? "Because markets are more than numbers; they're a reflection of human behaviors, fears, hopes, and irrationalities."
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Massimo Group To Expand Its Manufacturing Plant Near Dallas
by | May 21, 2024
A month after hitting the Nasdaq in a $5.85M IPO, Garland-based Massimo Group is expanding its manufacturing facility by 90,000 square feet to support both its pontoon boat production and its powersports vehicle operations.
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$2B Deal: North Texas-Based Independent Bank Group Acquired by SouthState

by | May 20, 2024
Independent Bank Group operates in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston areas as well as in the Colorado Front Range. When its acquisition by Florida-based SouthState Corporation is complete, the combined company will have a projected market cap of around $8.2 billion.
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India’s Total Environment Launches $250M ‘Tapestry’ Project in Frisco
by | May 20, 2024
Eco-friendly green roofs, grass terraces, courtyards, and master bedrooms with an open bathroom featuring a tree and skylight are just some of the ways Tapestry "blurs the boundaries between indoors and outdoors." The innovation comes with a cost: They start at $1.7 million.
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Norwegian Company To Manufacture ‘Pioneering’ Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks in North Texas
by | May 20, 2024
The new Tern brand's inaugural vehicle model RC8, a groundbreaking battery electric Class 8 tractor tailored for the U.S. market, will be manufactured at Hexagon Purus' new facility in Mesquite
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America’s Fastest-Growing City: How Celina’s Strategic Plan Aims To Spur Further Growth
by | May 20, 2024
The Dallas North Tollway is being extended to Celina, north of Frisco and Prosper. That can't come soon enough for this Collin County city, which the U.S. Census Bureau just named the fastest-growing in the U.S. Behind the meteoric growth—and a dizzying list of new developments—is a plan that's guiding it all.
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