Invention

Dallas Invents: 95 Patents Granted for Week of April 4

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: American Airlines' remapping of flight leg bookings, Baylor Research Institute's diagnosing, prognosing, and treating colorectal cancer using biomarker expression, Care View Communications' surveillance system for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, JPMorgan Chase Bank's automated detection, elimination, and prevention of toxic combinations for personal information data, NXGEN Partners quantum-resistant blockchain with multi-dimensional quantum key distribution, Securus Technologies' personal computer wireless device docking station, Tango Networks' calling line/name identification of enterprise subscribers in mobile calls, and Versa Networks' systems for transitioning between client-less and client-based network connectivity to a secure access service edge (SASE) domain.
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Dallas Invents: 120 Patents Granted for Week of March 28
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's blockchain management platform for performing asset adjustment, cross sectional editing, and bonding, Capital One's anomaly analysis using a blockchain, Intel's technologies for managing interoperable high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles, KPMG's case-based reasoning systems and methods, Lennox Industries' personalized indoor microclimates, McAfee's large scale malware sample identification, Raytheon's method of virtually adhering materials to surfaces prior to encapsulation, RO5's de novo drug discovery using machine learning algorithms, and Verizon's method for un-biasing user personalizations and recommendations.
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Los Alamos National Lab Launches LEEP to Match Entrepreneurs with Expert Mentors and Funding for Deep Tech Commercialization
The Lab Embedded Entrepreneur Program is designed to help entrepreneurs develop and commercialize their deep technology ideas. Texas innovators are invited to apply for the fellowship—but hurry, deadline is approaching quickly on April 17.
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Elon Musk, Other Tech Leaders Call for 6-Month Pause on the ‘Dangerous Race’ to Giant AI Systems
by | Mar 29, 2023
The request was made in an open letter signed by major players including Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI, the lab that created ChatGPT and GPT-4; Emad Mostaque, founder of the London-based Stability AI; and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers, and backers signed the letter, including academics from UT Dallas.
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Dallas Invents: 114 Patents Granted for Week of March 14

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, AT&T's emotion-based authentication service, Cancer Diagnostics Research Innovation's method for diagnosing and treating esophageal cancer, Citicorp Credit Services' multifactor authentication systems, Digital Tonic's augmented reality platform, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' microfluidic testing system for mobile veterinary applications, Sixgill's method of counting livestock, StaCyc's bike frame having a drive module enclosure, Textron Innovations' illuminated rope as an aircraft emergency egress aid, Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America's artificial muscles having vacuum coupled electrode insulators, Zixcorp Systems' delivery of an electronic message using a machine learning policy, and more.
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The Future 50 in Dallas-Fort Worth 2023: Meet the Game-Changing Disruptors Driving Innovation and Impact
by | Mar 16, 2023
These standouts—startup founders, tech pioneers, educators, creators, social innovators, and business leaders—are transforming entire industries and making waves in their respective fields. 
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SMU Student Develops Next-Gen pH Freshness Sensor for Packaged Food
by | Mar 16, 2023
The flexible pH sensor's small size—it's just 2 millimeters long and 10 millimeters wide—makes it possible to incorporate the sensor into current food packaging methods, such as plastic wrapping.
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Boundary Breakers: The Inventive Innovators of the 2023 Future 50 in Dallas-Fort Worth
by | Mar 16, 2023

Meet the inventive minds driving change in Dallas-Fort Worth’s industries and beyond with groundbreaking technologies and solutions. These individuals are among the Future 50, recognized in Dallas Innovates 2023 magazine for their forward-thinking approaches to invention, commercialization, and intellectual property.

From safe, direct current power for intelligent buildings (Farukh Aslam, Sinclair Digital Services) to transforming medical devices with wireless, batteryless implants (J.-C....

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From Ideas to Impact: SMU’s Research and Innovation Week Demonstrates the Power of Innovation

by | Mar 14, 2023
Running from March 20-25 on the SMU campus, research and innovation will be on full display.
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Dallas Invents: 130 Patents Granted for Week of March 7
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 130 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Vpay's virtual payment card fraud detection, AT&T's modeling radio wave propagation in a 5G or other next generation network, Bank of America's resource performance and maintenance via distributed ledgers, The University of Texas System's peripheral nerve electrode for neural recording and stimulation, Boy Scouts of America's quadcopter drone, Capital One's method for determining an actual cost ownership, Custom Environmental Consulting's bathroom space saver and organizer, Dell's data integration demand management using artificial intelligence, DocuSign's electronic document interaction with external resources, Fortress Iron's deck framing system, Maxim Integrated Products' logging data in harsh environments, McAfee's methods to improve detection of malware based on ecosystem specific data, rewardStyle's affiliate link generation, Siemens Industry Software's build direction-based partitioning for construction of a physical object through additive manufacturing, Spectral MD's Machine learning for assessment, healing prediction, and treatment of wounds, and more.
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UTSW Researchers’ Discovery About Gut Bacteria May Improve Cancer Treatments
by | Mar 9, 2023
The researchers discovered how healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumors elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs. “Now we understand that mechanism much better and, in the future, hope to use this knowledge to better fight cancer," said UT Southwestern's Andrew Y. Koh, M.D.
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‘Groundbreaking’ Soil Sensors From UT Dallas Bioengineers Could Help Combat Climate Change, Food Insecurity
by | Mar 9, 2023
"This is the equivalent of having a wearable health sensor on your body that tells you in real time what’s happening. Think of it as a wearable for the soil,” UT Dallas' Dr. Shalini Prasad said.
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Fort Worth Biotech NanOlogy Gets U.S. Patent for New Cancer Treatment

by | Mar 7, 2023
NanOlogy said the new patent covers a method of treating cancer by intratumoral administration of large surface area microparticle taxanes in combination with systemic administration of immune checkpoint inhibitors. “The goal is to identify which combinations can increase the immune response, thereby increasing the overall solid tumor response to treatment," said NanOlogy Chief Medical Officer Gere DiZerega.
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UTSW Researchers Discover Liver Hormone Helps Drunk Mice Sober Up Quicker
by | Mar 7, 2023

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have discovered that could lead to an effective treatment for acute alcohol intoxications.

The researchers reported in a new study that a shot of a liver-produced hormone called FGF21 sobered up mice that had passed out from alcohol....

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On Rare Disease Day, Plano Biotech Reata Pharmaceuticals Gets Its First FDA Approval
by | Mar 2, 2023
The FDA approval is not only a first for Reata's treatment of ultra-rare disease Friedreich's Ataxia. It's a first in the company's history, reports FiercePharma. On the news, Reata’s stock skyrocketed nearly 200% Wednesday, according to the Dallas Morning News, which cited an estimate that the drug will create a revenue stream in excess of $1 billion.
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16 Biotech Companies in Dallas-Fort Worth ‘Putting the Tech in Bio’ to Drive Breakthroughs

Dallas-Fort Worth is well known for its tech expertise. Now it being recognized as the place where technology meets life science—a convergence that’s driving rapid growth in the biotech ecosystem....

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