Invention

Dallas Invents: 90 Patents Granted for Week of December 20

by | Jan 8, 2023

Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. ...

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Dallas Invents: 100 Patents Granted for Week of December 13
by | Jan 7, 2023

Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. ...

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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of December 6
by | Jan 6, 2023

Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. ...

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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of November 29
by | Dec 28, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Akamai Technologies' device discovery for cloud-based network security gateways, Amazon's identity-aware filtering proxy for virtual networks, BMIC's asphalt shingle waste coatings in roofing materials, Capital One's sorted parallel processing of a large dataset, EarthSystems Technologies' predictive monitoring geological and meteorological effects on subsurface infrastructure systems and reporting emergency conditions, Google's methods and computer program products for providing data use options, Halliburton's sealing apparatus with swellable metal, Toyota's managing drones in vehicular system, USAA's voice synthesis for virtual agents, and more.
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Michael Vasilyev, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded an $800,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to lead a project expanding research and education in quantum information science and engineering. [Photo: UTA]

Quantum Leap: UT Arlington’s $800K Research Project Pushes Boundaries in Quantum Science and Engineering

by | Dec 22, 2022
The highly competitive grant shows NSF’s willingness to expand the study of quantum information technology to universities that are aspiring to become major players in the field, said UTA professor Michael Vasilyeve, who will lead the project.

One purpose of the NSF's expansion program is to ensure a steady supply of skilled workers for the quantum information technology industry, which is constantly in need of more talent than is available.
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Lantern Pharma’s New Drug Candidate for Mantle Cell Lymphoma Shows Promise
by | Dec 22, 2022
The Dallas-based biopharmaceutical company expects to begin testing the drug candidate in a “first in human” trial in mid-2023. The drug was developed using the publicly traded company’s AI/ML drug development platform.

Lantern, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, recently published insights on how AI can be used to find new indications for cancer drugs in record times with significant reductions in costs.
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UT Southwestern Team’s Gene Editing Battles 1-in-250 Heart Condition
by | Dec 21, 2022
UT Southwestern researchers have used gene editing technology to develop what could be a breakthrough for dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that affects one in 250 people worldwide. “The pace of this field is really breathtaking,” said Eric Olson, Ph.D., who co-led the study. “I expect that if this moves forward into patients, we’re not talking within decades—we’re talking within years.”​ 
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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of November 22
by | Dec 21, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Aon Risk Services' digital property collateral protection, Capitalogix's advanced systems and methods for allocating capital to trading strategies for big data trading in financial markets, Dell Products' detection of indicators of attack, Nallen Holdings' paint removal unit, USAA's appliance monitoring sensors, and more.
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Taysha Gene Therapies Replaces CEO, Appoints R&D Chief

by | Dec 19, 2022

Dallas-based Taysha Gene Therapies is starting a new chapter in its fight to tackle devastating neurological conditions with changes in its top executive leadership.

Late Friday, the publicly traded biotech announced that Sean P. Nolan, the current chair of the board of directors and an experienced biopharmaceutical industry leader, is the company’s new CEO....

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Startup to Storefront: SkinStasis Launches ‘Revolutionary’ Skin Care Product Out of BioLabs at Pegasus Park
by | Dec 19, 2022
Co-founders Paul Stewart and Frank Murdock started up SkinStasis Skin Care earlier this year to meet "a big unmet need" in the cold sore/herpes virus field, where they say there's been "no real new pharmaceutical development" for over 20 years.

Working out of BioLabs at Pegasus Park, they teamed up with Irving's Cosmetic Laboratories to launch NextLeap—which uses tranexamic acid to shorten the time to recovery of normal appearance to as little as 24 to 48 hours, the co-founders say.
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Legendary Dallas Innovator John Carmack Raises $20M for Artificial General Intelligence Startup Keen Technologies
by | Dec 16, 2022
Carmack—the former CTO of VR giant Oculus—has taken goggle-gazing to the next level, programmed Doom and Quake, and founded a Mesquite-based space tourism startup. Now he's on a mission he says "could change the course of human history": artificial general intelligence. Keen's focus on AGI could lead to "something that behaves like a human being or like a living creature, and that can then be educated in whatever ways that we need to," he says.

Carmack believes AGI will hit the market in less than a decade. enabling AIs to interact socially with each other—or with actual people.  
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USPTO Announces Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program
by | Dec 15, 2022

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced the new Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program, in an effort to accelerate innovation in the health and medical fields....

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UTD’s Dr. Amy Pinkham Picked to Head Global Initiative to Standardize Schizophrenia Assessment

by | Dec 9, 2022
Dr. Amy Pinkham of UTD’s School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences received an award for outstanding research on social cognition. The award puts her group at the forefront of research in the field, the professor said.

The work could be applicable for many disorders, including autism and mood and anxiety disorders.
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Fountain Life Opens AI-Powered Diagnostic Center at Grandscape in The Colony
by | Dec 9, 2022

Florida-based Fountain Life, a preventative health and longevity company committed to transforming global healthcare from reactive to proactive, has opened its third precision diagnostic center in The Colony....

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AllOY Reveals Design of Its First Electric-Powered Autonomous Recreational Boat
by | Dec 8, 2022
The Dallas-based marine tech startup will take preorders in 2023 and set sail with production boats in 2024. Warbird Holdings CEO John Dorton—a veteran in both boat building and leadership—is joining the startup’s board to help AllOY make waves in the $57 billion recreational boat market.  AllOY emerged from stealth this summer to bring electric power and autonomous tech to boating.
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