Invention

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.'s plants with reduced Lipase 1 activity
  • BNSF Railway Company's drone based automated yard check
  • Bone Solutions, Inc.'s implant of osteostimulative material
  • Harnyss IP, LLC's 3D printed hydrogen storage systems using non-pyrophoric hydrogen storage alloys
  • Lennox Industries Inc.'s occupancy tracking using sound recognition
  • Nvidia Corporation's decision feed forward equalization for partial response equalized signal including pre-cursor cancelation
  • Volvo Car Corporation's methods and systems for unsupervised depth estimation for fisheye cameras using spatial-temporal consistency


Patented: USAA’s Color-Changing Vehicle and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 6, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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Patented: Tango Networks’ Driver Identification Based on Driving Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of July 23, with a total of 134 patents granted.

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Texas-Based Research Bridge Partners Taps New Board Leadership to Drive ‘High-Quality Investment Opportunities’ in Biomedical Innovation
by | Aug 9, 2024
With a new CEO and three seasoned industry veterans joining its board, Research Bridge Partners is focused on moving university innovations from the lab to the marketplace.

Last year, the Texas-based nonprofit, in collaboration with Lyda Hill Philanthropies, invested $4 million into North Texas’ UT Southwestern Medical Center, bolstering efforts to transform groundbreaking research into viable companies.
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Patented: A ‘Space Railway’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of July 16, 2024. 120 patents granted include: Azitra's therapeutic treatment of skin disease with recombinant commensal skin microorganisms, BuzzBallz's container apparatus, Compass Datacenters' sidewall-connected HVAC units for modular datacenter facilities, Elevance Health's systems and methods for automated cloud provisioning, Husqvarna's rake, KidStrong's door frame exercise system, and Malikie Innovations' increasing battery performance for a device that uses power saving features.
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Dallas-Fort Worth Biotech Targets Cancer’s ‘Achilles Heel’ with Nanotechnology

OncoNano's innovative approach to cancer treatment leverages nanotechnology to bring tumors into the light.
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Dallas’ Spectral AI Is Developing a Battlefield Burn Assessment Tool
by | Jul 31, 2024
The company noted that burn wounds account for a significant portion of combat-related injuries. Its DeepView SnapShot M device is designed to be an integral part of the battlefield triage process by providing a quick and accurate wound assessment, so that those with more severe burn injuries can be prioritized for evacuation.
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Patented: NICE Ltd.’s Complaint Detection and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of July 9, 2024. 122 patents granted include: K2M's expandable spinal implants, Nice Ltd.'s systems and methods for detecting complaint interactions, Plainsight Technologies' system and method of detecting gas leaks, Reddy Ice's bagged ice dispensing machine, Roku's centralized mediation between ad-replacement platforms, Spark Biomedical's wearable auricular neurostimulator and methods of use, VPAY's system and method for virtual payment fraud detection.
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Alpha Cognition’s ZUNVEYL Receives FDA Approval to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
by | Jul 29, 2024
“The approval of ZUNVEYL is a pivotal moment in the fight against Alzheimer's disease as it's only the second oral AD treatment to be approved in more than a decade," said CEO Michael McFadden of Alpha Cognition. Based in Vancouver with an office in Frisco, the company was honored at the 2023 BioNTX iC3 Summit as one of eight "Rising Stars."
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UTA Researchers Create Software to Prevent AI-Generated Scams

by | Jul 18, 2024

Almost everyone is concerned about online scams that seek to drain people’s bank accounts or steal their identities, and with the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in our lives, that concern has taken an even more dramatic turn as cybercriminals have been using the technology to design scams.

Now, researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed software they said prevents artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT from creating phishing websites....

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UTSW Says Experimental Compound Kills Cancer, Spares Immune Cells
by | Jul 17, 2024

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have identified a compound that selectively eliminates cancer cells while sparing immune cells in a form of cell death known as ferroptosis, according to a news release. 

UTSW said the findings, published in Science Translational Medicine earlier this year, could lead to new treatments for a wide variety of cancer types....

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Patented: Aizaco’s Microplastics Detection and Removal Technology, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 25, 2024. 150 patents granted include: Amazon's grip aid, AT&T's frequency-aware cellular communication network, Bank of America's ATM leveraging edge devices for offline processing, Enseo's geolocationing system, HighLevel's systems and methods for building funnel websites using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework, Intel Corporation's technologies for managing interoperable high definition maps for autonomous vehicles, and Linear Labs' reluctance synchronous machines without permanent magnets.
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Texas Instruments Launches New Magnetic Packaging Tech for Power Modules, Doubling Power Density
by | Jul 16, 2024
Dallas-based TI says the innovation uses proprietary, newly engineered material and has been "nearly a decade in the making." Jeff Morroni of TI's Kilby Labs added that designers "turn to power modules to save on time, complexity, size and component count, but these benefits have required a compromise on performance—until now."
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Patented: Stratis IoT’s Smart Lock System and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 11, 2024. 156 patents granted include: Digital Seat Media's systems and methods for delivering augmented reality content, Electronic Caregiver's remote physical therapy and assessment of patients, HighLevel's systems and methods for building funnel websites using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework, Linear Labs' multi-tunnel electric machine, SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for comparing driving performance for simulated driving, and Toyota Motor North America's autonomous seat sanitizing system for a vehicle.
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With a ‘Microsite’ in Fort Worth, Israel‑Based AIR Launches AIR ONE Cargo eVTOL
by | Jun 20, 2024
The Israeli company's AIR ONE "flying sportscar" holds the promise of letting people easily "drive the sky." But now the company's come out with an unmanned cargo version—and it's performing certification-oriented tasks for the launch out of AIR's "engineering microsite" in Fort Worth.
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SMU Prof and SENTRIQS Team Up on Quantum Cybersecurity With $110K Air Force Grant
by | Jun 19, 2024
SMU's Klyne Smith, with over 30 years of experience in IT and telecommunications at companies like IBM, Caesars Entertainment, and Ericsson, will use his industry insights to explore quantum-safe communication solutions for military applications.
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