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UTD doctoral student Matthew Bergschneider and researchers found why lithium nickel oxide batteries fail and developed a potential fix for the promising battery material. [Photo: UT Dallas]
UT Dallas Researchers Solve Battery Puzzle That Could Extend Phone Life and EV Range
by Lance Murray | Feb 18, 2025
Lithium nickel oxide, a promising material for next-gen, longer-lasting batteries, keeps failing during charging. Now a UTD team says it's found a fix to make it viable for commercial use. The researchers plan to manufacture test batteries in their robotics lab before seeking industry partners to take them to market.
by Lance Murray |
Feb 17, 2025
Southern Methodist University biology researchers are uncovering how brain, heart, and lung connections may hold the key to preventing sudden death in epilepsy—while making a breakthrough discovery linking a missing brain protein to fatal seizures.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 15, 2025
Often cities can have a gap between healthcare opportunities and its unhoused population.
In Fort Worth a group of medical students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is helping to bridge that gap via the Street Medicine Student Coalition....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 14, 2025
A clinical trial led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas could help bring an experimental treatment for depression closer to approval from the U.S....
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 1A Smart Start's calculating a recidivism probability score for compliance-based ignition interlock device removal
- Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration with refillable medication dispensing devices
- Capital One's real-time dynamic conversational responses during conversational interactions using machine learning models
- Forcepoint Federal's security analytics system for performing a risk analysis operation taking into account social behavior peer grouping
- Lockheed Martin's plasma engine with leptonic energy source
- o9 Solutions' protocol buffer trie packing and streaming updates
- OxeFit's motorized pilates reformer
- Sabre's computer program product for reservations, inventory control, shopping, and booking with attribute-based pricing
- Verily Life Sciences' scene-adaptive image quality in surgical video
- Verizon's predictive modeling of energy consumption in a cellular network
Patented: American Airlines’ Virtual Measurement System for Baggage Management and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 7 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 12, 2025
Graduate online programs in education and nursing and bachelor’s online programs in business at Texas Woman’s University in Denton have been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as being among the nation’s best....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
What started as a ‘friendly conversation’ on the UNTHSC campus could lead to a breakthrough in treating glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness, affecting over 80 million people worldwide. With AI, the lab team can speed up the process of screening billions of virtual compounds to attack the problem.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
The University of Texas at Arlington’s reputation as a national leader in online education has received a tangible boost by earning major gains in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings. UTA’s College of Education’s online programs, for example, placed in the top 5% nationally.
UTA said its online master’s in education ranked 15th out of 313 institutions, and those programs tailored for military veterans and military-connected students jumped to No....
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AT&T's autonomous aerial vehicle projection zone selection
- Blue Yonder's price-demand elasticity as feature in machine learning model for demand forecasting
- BNSF Railway's multi-objective systems for optimally assigning train blocks at a railroad merchandise yard
- Gemini IP's universal core blockchain wallets for accelerated network additions
- Kepler GTL's systems for producing sustainable aviation fuel
- McKesson's methods for automated prescription preparation
- Meta Platforms' remote radio unit with reduced volume and increased thermal efficiency
- PrivacyChain's peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed data management system
- T-Mobile's machine learning monitoring of wireless network infrastructure application servers
- Toyota's knowledge transfer for early unsafe driving behavior recognition
- USAA's self-charging unmanned vehicle
- Verily Life Sciences' intraocular micro-display system with intelligent wireless power delivery
- Wells Fargo's systems for determining a next action based on entities and intents
Patented: USAA’s Detection Systems for Fake Voice Commands to Smart Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 5, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 31 with a total of 163 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
The strategy—which is used by companies to poach customers from competitors by offering targeted ads to consumers' mobile devices based on their physical location—may benefit advertisers more than their business clients, UT Dallas researchers contend.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 1, 2025
The study of data from past storms includes researchers from multiple universities as well as international partners from hurricane-prone regions including the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Costa Rica.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 30, 2025
The Dallas maternal-fetal medicine practice calls Samsung's Hera Z20—which uses advanced AI and other features to enhance diagnostic accuracy—a "pre-natal game changer for women's health."
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A scientist with an entrepreneurial edge, Dr. Shalini Prasad innovations include a rapid fentanyl detection system, a DIY food safety tester, and a wearable healthcare monitor—each designed to give users critical, real-time information. [Photo: UTD}
From Fentanyl to DIY Food Safety: Dr. Shalini Prasad’s Groundbreaking Trifecta of Detection Devices
by UT Dallas | Jan 29, 2025
Combining cutting-edge research and real-world applications, the UT Dallas professor transforms public health with innovations in detection technology, including “a check engine light” for the human body. In collaboration with EnLiSense, the company she cofounded, Dr. Prasad combines chemistry with software and hardware to bring the technology to life as market-ready devices.
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sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Lance Murray |
Jan 27, 2025
Aiming to safeguard national security using advanced AI, cybersecurity experts at the University of North Texas have received $3 million from the Department of Defense to help the department overhaul its hiring processes....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 23, 2025
Founded in 2012, Universal DX is focused on "cracking cancer’s code" via its multi-omics and machine learning models. Starting with colorectal cancer, it's building a "multi-cancer platform" that can ID the unique DNA regions associated with different types of cancers.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 22, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 17 with a total of 95 patents granted.
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