Invention

The Future of AI: Capital Factory Convenes North Texas Leaders to Explore What’s Next in Artificial Intelligence

by | Aug 17, 2023
At the Bush Center in Dallas on September 5, Capital Factory will host top tech minds to talk AI and AGI. Tech icon John Carmack will take the stage in a rare fireside chat on artificial general intelligence with AI expert Dave Copps.

Here's what you need to know, along with advance insights from Copps.
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Spark Biomedical Launches Telehealth Services for Opioid Withdrawal Relief Device
by | Aug 14, 2023
Dallas-based Spark says its Sparrow Ascent system—which received FDA clearance in July—is a safe, drug-free opioid withdrawal treatment serving patients seeking to decrease or eliminate their reliance on opioids.
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Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of August 8
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 139 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV- and HPV-related diseases, Better Vision Solutions' disinfecting contact lenses with a manganese-coated disc, FOI Group's automatic rotating agricultural system to irrigate, plant, gather forage, and/or harvest field and method for operating the system, Google's identifying a set of characters in a media file, Jpmorgan Chase Bank's system for integrating voice biometrics, Kyndryl's charging regulation model for electric vehicles on the road, Merative's determining drug effectiveness ranking for a patient using machine learning, Samsung's multi-sensor, multi-view, multi-frame, multi-task synthetic image fusion engine for mobile imaging system, State Farm's autonomous vehicle insurance based upon usage, Swiss-American CDMO's antimicrobial compositions that are non-toxic to mammals and plants, Thor Tech's mobile device tools for smart vehicle features operation and automatic wireless routing selection and methods of useAA's autonomous vehicle barricade, and Walmart Apollo's automatically annotating images.
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Past Issues: Dallas Innovates—The Magazine

by | Aug 9, 2023
Peruse Dallas Innovates' special once-a-year magazines. Each edition is a keeper.
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Dallas Invents: 103 Patents Granted for Week of August 1
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, Beauty Biosciences' handheld skin cleansing device, Biora Therapeutics' ingestible device for delivery of therapeutic agent to the GI tract, Capital One's asset tracking systems, Halliburton Energy's 3D printed tool with integral stress concentration zone, Lennox Industries' personalized indoor microclimates, Liveperson's automated response to queries made by interactive electronic chat, NxGen Partners' miniaturized device to sterilize surfaces, and Walmart Apollo's methods for automatically recommending an item to a customer while shopping at a retail store.
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Dallas’ Oak Lawn Pharmacy To Deploy Robotic ‘Pharmacy Dispensing Kiosks’ Across Texas
by | Aug 4, 2023
ATM machines changed banking by putting access to money in places where banks weren't. Phoenix-based MedAvail aims to do the same for prescription drugs with its robotic pharmacy dispensing kiosks—and Dallas' Oak Lawn Pharmacy has signed on to deploy 10 of the kiosks across Texas. Here's how the kiosk works.
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Dallas Invents: 114 Patents Granted for Week of July 25
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, Beauty Biosciences' handheld skin cleansing device, Biora Therapeutics' ingestible device for delivery of therapeutic agent to the GI tract, Capital One's asset tracking systems, Halliburton Energy's 3D printed tool with integral stress concentration zone, Lennox Industries' personalized indoor microclimates, Liveperson's automated response to queries made by interactive electronic chat, NxGen Partners' miniaturized device to sterilize surfaces, and Walmart Apollo's methods for automatically recommending an item to a customer while shopping at a retail store.
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Boeing and NASA Are Building This Eco-Friendlier ‘X-Plane’ with American and Southwest Airlines Support

by | Jul 31, 2023
NASA's first X-plane could reduce fuel consumption and emissions up to 30% compared to today's domestic fleet of airplanes, Boeing said. The design could be used by planes of different sizes and missions and may benefit from folding wing tips to accommodate existing airport infrastructure.
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Dallas-Based Five Liters Tackles Blood Loss With Bioelectric Wearable Tech
by | Jul 31, 2023
Five Liters, an offshoot of Spark Biomedical, begins 'first-in-human' trials to explore wearable neurostimulation technology for managing inherited blood disorders and more. Parent Spark Biomedical is focused on its FDA-cleared wearable device for drug-free opioid withdrawal.
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Brewing Up Solutions: UT Dallas Students Perk Up Travel and Automated French Press for Coffee Co.
Engineering students from UTDesign developed two innovative solutions for Anikona Coffee: an automated French Press that revolutionizes coffee brewing and a transformative suitcase with a unique mechanical design featuring extendable wheels for easier stair navigation.
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JetWind Power is Converting Jet Blast from Love Field Planes Into Clean Energy
by | Jul 28, 2023
Dallas-based JetWind Power Corp.—whose founder and CEO is Dr. Tarek O. Souryal, a former Dallas Mavericks team physician—is testing its revolutionary Energy Capturing Pod system near the control tower at Dallas Love Field. Could aircraft carriers be next?
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How UTDesign Established Itself as a ‘Secret Weapon’ Turning Tech Hurdles Into Business Game-Changers

From vacuum cleaners that can climb stairs, to robots built for firefighting, students in UT Dallas's UTDesign Capstone program are solving modern tech challenges. Companies in need? They're tapping into this pool of innovation, getting fresh solutions in AI, AR, robotics, bioengineering, and more.
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The Last Word: UTD’s Shalini Prasad on How High-Tech Soil Sensors Can Help Gardeners and Farmers
by | Jul 20, 2023
"This is the equivalent of having a wearable health sensor on your body that tells you in real-time what’s happening," Prasad said. "Think of it as a wearable for the soil."
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Jacobs Tapped by Ultra Safe Nuclear for Micro Modular Nuclear Reactor Project in U.K.
by | Jul 20, 2023
Jacobs will support design and development of a micro modular power reactor from Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear. Jacobs' Karen Wiemelt says the reactor—designed to harmonize with renewables—"has the potential to assist the world's energy transition and take nuclear power into a new era."
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Dallas Invents: 89 Patents Granted for Week of July 11
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's banking as a service enabled virtual exchange computing platform, DocuSign's blockchain-based network transitioned by a legal contract, Dstillery's AI or ML models trained to predict user actions based on an embedding of network locations, Intellective AI's mapper component for a neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system, Minor IP's underwater wings for providing lift to boats, Acclarent's method of treating a deviated nasal septum and more, Adaptive 3D Technologies and UT Systems' sealed isocyanates resin composite, and Furka's bow tie fidget device.
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