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SMU's Dedman Chemistry Professor Elfi Kraka, at center. [Photo: SMU]
SMU Chemist, Colleagues Develop Machine Learning Model To Help Study Stardust and Atomic Interactions
by Lance Murray | Mar 14, 2024
The researchers developed a novel model called ANI-1xnr that's suitable for a broad range of reactive chemistry without costly refitting—a major drawback of the MLIPs currently in use, SMU said.
by David Seeley |
Mar 13, 2024
In 2022, we told you about two next-gen, robotics-packed Walmart facilities that were coming to Lancaster, just south of Dallas: a 1.5 million-square-foot automated fulfillment center and a 730,000 square-foot automated grocery distribution center. The first opened last year and the second is still under construction. When it's completed, it will complete a trifecta of transformation in the region, including a retrofitted 1.2-million-square-foot distribution center in Sanger, north of Denton.
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Patented: Lupagen’s Real-Time Modifications of Patient Cells and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 13, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. 156 patents granted for the week of Feb. 13 include: Alcon's 3D printing of an intraocular lens having smooth, curved surfaces; Amazon Technologies' anomaly prediction for electronic resources; ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems' signal light for a loading dock; and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 12, 2024
The North Texas Innovation Alliance has begun offering quarterly "hands-on innovation experiences" at "the brightest and most innovative projects across North Texas" for NTXIA members. The Immersive Innovation field trips kicked off with a tour of the NSF's newly opened eCAT Center at UNT. Here's where the NTXIA is going next.
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Apple's newly granted patent shows a desktop computer system with a housing that encompasses a central core. The structure is designed to use airflow as a heat transfer medium for cooling the internal components. Two North Texans are listed as inventors on the patent. [Image: USPTO Patent No. 1899509]
Patented: Apple’s Desktop Computer Housing and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 6, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. 156 patents granted for the week of Feb. 13 include: Alcon's 3D printing of an intraocular lens having smooth, curved surfaces; Amazon Technologies' anomaly prediction for electronic resources; ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems' signal light for a loading dock; and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 6, 2024
With support from the American Heart Association, Access TeleCare and UT Southwestern Medical Center are spearheading a two-year initiative aimed at improving cardiac care for rural patients.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 28, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 124 patents granted for Feb. 6 include: Allegro MicroSystems' rapid data transfer sensor arrays, ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems AB's vehicle guidance systems and associated methods of use at logistics yards and other locations, Avery Dennison Retail Information Services' RFID vial tracking with RFID inlay, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's computer vision system for object tracking and time-to-collision, Wells Fargo Bank's biometric electronic signature tokens, and an unassigned patent for facilitating pollution-free tire recycling processes..
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by David Seeley |
Feb 27, 2024
The downtown Dallas Public Library is the only public library in the state of Texas to offer a Patent and Trademark Resource Center from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. PTRCs are part of a national network of public, state, and academic libraries in partnership with the USPTO to offer trademark and patent assistance to the public.
The USPTO aims to empower innovation by expanding access—so it recently put out a call to 600 libraries and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the country, inviting each institution to consider becoming PTRCs to assist their local innovators.
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Partners Kick Off AI 75 2024: Dallas‑Fort Worth’s ‘Most Innovative’ People in Artificial Intelligence
by David Seeley | Feb 20, 2024
Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI are teaming up to launch the new AI 75 program at Capital Factory's Future of AI Salon today. The first-ever list will recognize Dallas-Fort Worth innovators in artificial intelligence.
Nominations are open through March 20.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 14, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 121 patents granted include: Mavenir Networks' method and apparatus for balancing server load in cloud RAN systems, Meta Platforms's selective offload of workloads to edge devices, Musarubra's system and method for detecting repetitive cybersecurity attacks constituting an email campaign, and National Tech Engineering Solutions of Sandia's secure authentication using recurrent neural networks.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 7, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. 129 patents granted for the week of 1/16/24 include: Equifax’s secure online access control to prevent identification information misuse, Musarubra’s system and method for automatically prioritizing rules for cyber-threat detection and mitigation, Max-IR Labs’ IR radiation and fluid channel to detect contaminants and salts in fluids, Meta Platforms’ systems and methods for determining hand poses in artificial reality environments, Textron’s VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 6, 2024
Neal Smatresk's decade at UNT sparked big changes and growth, boosting its standing in academics and research. From "record-breaking enrollment" to "making UNT the highest-ranked Tier One institution in the North Texas region," his tenure marks transformation across multiple fronts.
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L to R, top row first: Martin M. Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D. (NAS); Maria A. Croyle, Ph.D.; Russell A. DeBose-Boyd, Ph.D. (NAS); Allan H. MacDonald, Ph.D. (NAS); and Technology: Hermann Lebit, Ph.D. [Photos: Lyda Hill Philanthropies]
2024 Hill Prizes Honor Five Innovators’ Groundbreaking Research, Awards $2.5M in Total Funding
by David Seeley | Feb 5, 2024
Presented by TAMEST and Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the inaugural 2025 Hill Prizes recognize groundbreaking research by innovators in medicine, engineering, biological and physical sciences, and technology. Meet all five winners—and see how they'll use their $500,000 prizes to make game-changing "real-world impact" in each of their fields.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 31, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 166 patents granted this week include: American Airlines' airline flight operations support, Dal-Tile's method for manufacturing an engineered stone, Mary Kay's combination of plant extracts to improve skin tone, MIT's biomass conversion reactors, Zimperium's mobile device security application for malicious website detection based on representative image, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 25, 2024
At the annual Innovation Awards event, Dallas Innovates and D CEO revealed the winners in 17 categories and recognized all 74 North Texas finalists.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 24, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 2, 2024. 170 patents granted include: Apogee Semiconductor's compact radiation-hardened integrated circuits, ARKH's smart ring, Firehawk Aerospace's additive manufactured hybrid rocket fuel grain, GF-17's system for creating and sharing bots, Lockheed Martin's ultrasonic cutting system, Musarubra's subscription-based malware detection, NCR Voyix's network-based work assignment platform, Palantir Technologies' systems for data entry, Scoot's dynamic virtual environment, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance's biometric characteristic application using audio/video analysis, United Services Automobile Association's unmanned vehicle security guard, and Waymo's LIDAR device having multiple receivers..
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