Invention

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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UTA Researcher Wins DoD Grant for Cutting-Edge Metal Manufacturing Machines, Paving the Way for Tools on Ships at Sea—and on Mars
by | Jul 31, 2023
Emma Yang, an industrial engineering expert, will use the funds to purchase 3-D hybrid manufacturing equipment that can print metals and alloys. UT Arlington calls the equipment critical to the education of the next generation of scientists and engineers. 
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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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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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Dallas Invents: 158 Patents Granted for Week of July 18
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 1974 Productions delivering music content to a smart phone, Amazon's answer time prediction in a contact center service of a provider network, Anaplan's system for creating and maintaining a data hub in a distributed system, AT&T, Emory University's method for mitigating international revenue share fraud, Below Zero Sport's body cooling article of clothing, Forcepoint's fuzzy matching and alias matching for streaming data sets, Global Tel*Link's personalized chatbots for inmates, and Siemens Industry Software's message monitoring.
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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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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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The Last Word: Dallas AI’s Aamer Charania on the Promise—and Perils—of Artificial Intelligence
by | Jul 17, 2023
Sunday was national AI Appreciation Day, so to mark it, the Dallas Regional Chamber did a Q&A with Charania and Babar Bhatti, co-founder and EVP of DallasAI, a nonprofit forum to accelerate learning and adoption of artificial intelligence.
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The Last Word: Macrocyclics Founder Dr. A. Dean Sherry on His Company’s Impact on Nuclear Medicine
A holder of 34 patents, Sherry was a pioneer in designing molecular materials for use in medical imaging. His work on chemicals called macrocyclic ligands led to their use in carrying "a payload of metallic radiotherapeutic compounds that can kill cancer cells on contact, while the outside molecular structure can be designed to bind to a specific protein that ensures precise delivery to only diseased tissue," Amanda Siegfried writes in UT Dallas Magazine.
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of July 4

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 149 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Wave Insurance Technologies's dynamic automated insurance application architecture, Abbott Laboratories' automated laboratory inventory management using RFID technology, Actimize's sentiment analysis of content using expression recognition, Beta Air's computing device for predicting battery temperature in an electric aircraft, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers' implantable device for sustained release of a macromolecular drug compound, Schneider Electric Buildings Americas' building energy management during power-loss event, MSP Solutions Group's user management system for computing support, Quest Resource Management's commercial recycling system Sercel's seismic vibrator with adjustable resonance frequency, Likewize's computer-readable storage media for real-time event management system for mobile devices, STMicroelectronics' atomic layer deposition of selected molecular clusters, UT Systems' quad-polymer precursor for producing carbon fiber, Toyota's aerial vehicle, and more.
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1,400-Mile Solar Car Challenge To Roll West from Fort Worth This Weekend
by | Jul 10, 2023
More than 20 teams of high school students from across the U.S. designed, engineered, and built their own solar-powered cars. On Sunday, they'll put them to the test on an eight-day journey from the Texas Motor Speedway to Palmdale, California. The event marks the 30th year of the challenge, hosted by the Plano-based Solar Car Challenge Foundation.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of June 27
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's message mapping via frequency and/or time indexing, AT&T's quantum security enhancement for IPsec protocol, BNSF's drone-based automated yard check, Digital Seat Media's wagering platforms and access derived from machine-readable codes, Frito-Lay's vision systems for robotic unloading, Fujitsu's digital representations of physical intelligent moving objects, Galaxy Unmanned Systems' unmanned airships, aerostats, and hybrid airship-aerostat systems, Schumacher Electric's battery charger with battery state detection, TeamOfDefenders' monitoring controlled spaces for transitory uses, and more.
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Dallas Startup Touts a Headgear Invention That Could Reduce Concussions in Contact Sports
by | Jun 29, 2023
College football player and third-generation inventor Carter Hogg says his G8RSkin “balaclava” has drawn interest from sports leagues, players associations, and college teams.
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