Invention

HeartSciences Pumps Life into Assessing Diastolic Dysfunction with New AI Patent

by | Sep 22, 2022
Southlake-based HeartSciences, which closed on a $6.375M IPO in June, applies AI-based technology to an ECG to detect cardiac dysfunction—one of the earliest signs of heart disease. The company says this can't be diagnosed by current conventional ECGs, making its MyoVista Wavelet ECG device a potential game changer. CEO Andrew Simpson says adding this diagnostic information to an ECG "addresses a significant unmet need in the market with an estimated 100 million-plus ECG tests performed annually in the U.S.A. alone."
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Dallas Invents: 113 Patents Granted for Week of September 6
by | Sep 20, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's wearable device for operational compliance, Bridge To Life's organ preservation system with automatic priming and air removal, NTT Data's bot-on-bot optimization, Siemens Logistics' automatic unloading of parcels, SpeedChain's systemized blockchain reconciliation in a hybrid distributed network ecosystem, TD Ameritrade's string processing of clickstream data, Verizon's managing unmanned aerial vehicle flight data, Visual Shot Recognition Gaming's live fire gaming system, and more.
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The 2022 BioNTX iC3 Summit Will Bring Together Leaders and Changemakers to ‘Accelerate Life Sciences Across North Texas’
The once-a-year summit on September 22 and 23 is an innovation multiplier for capital, collaboration, and commercialization. Experts in the field will discuss strategy and exchange insights—and what's driving life science success across the region.

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Gamified Exercise, Medical Devices, and More: 10 Startups Bring Their Ideas to Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator
by | Sep 15, 2022
The inaugural Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator is kicking off with 10 startups who come from all over the map—from Dallas to cities across the U.S. as well as Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. They'll be taking up residence in Fort Worth for an "intensive" 13-week mentorship program that makes each eligible for $120,000 in seed funding from the UNT Health Science Center and Goff Capital. “We believe that Fort Worth can become the physical health innovation capital of the world, and this is an incredible next step to making that vision a reality,” says Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams, president of UNT HSC.
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Dallas Invents: 160 Patents Granted for Week of August 30

by | Sep 14, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Botsitter's remote monitoring, care and maintenance of animals, Socrates Health Solutions' blood glucose trend meter, Kyndryl's prioritization for charging electric vehicles while driving on the road, BNSF Railway's train simulator test set and method therefor, Alliance for Sustainable Energy's perovskite materials , TI's accelerated decision-tree execution, USAA's authentication in a virtual reality environment, JPMorgan Chase Bank's gamification-based engagement, Polara Enterprises' integrated accessible pedestrian system, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 121 Patents Granted for Week of August 23
by | Sep 7, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 121 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include:7-Eleven's Event Trigger Based On Region-Of-Interest Near Hand-Shelf Interaction, Coronado Aesthetics' Delivery Of Nanoparticles, Her Technologies' Skin Rejuvenation Device, IBM's Assisted Smart Device Context Performance Information Retrieval, Intuit's Optimization Based On Archetypes, Match Group's System And Method For Modifying A Preference, Red River Tea's Touchless Beverage Dispensing Valve, Sigl-G's Geothermal Power Generation, Solo Brands' Combustible Fuel Burning Stove With Spark Arrestor, Toyota's Off-Highway Auto Ev Mode, ZscalerCloud-Based Virtual Private Access Systems And Methods For Application Access , Siemens Industry Software's Isometric Control Data Generation for Test Compression and Vive Scientific's Apparatus For Tissue Ablation Using Radiofrequency Energy And Method Of Use
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CPRIT Is Funding the Development of Products That Fight Cancer
by | Sep 6, 2022
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas has provided more than $3.1 billion in funding toward the development of cancer-fighting therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and tools since 2010. It's now issued a call for startups and early-stage companies to apply for product development research grants for the 2023 fiscal year. “CPRIT’s mission is to invest in the research prowess of Texas institutions while expediting breakthroughs in cancer cures and prevention,” CEO Wayne Roberts said last May.
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Dallas Invents: 155 Patents Granted for Week of August 16
by | Aug 31, 2022
Bank of America's correction, synchronization, and migration of databases, Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration with refillable medication dispensing devices, UT Systems' cancer cell trap, Cleanspray USA's disinfection system for mass transit vehicles, Fujifilm Medical Systems' detecting errors in artificial intelligence engines, Knightscope's autonomous parking monitor, Micron Technology's modified checksum using a poison data pattern, Texas Instruments' handling non-correctable errors, Textron Innovations' fuel cell powered line-replaceable thrust module, The Nielsen Company's methods and apparatus to improve usage crediting in mobile devices, and UNT's ultrasonic through-wall sensors.
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Dallas Invents: 92 Patents Granted for Week of July 26

by | Aug 17, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AITAX's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and AI, Alcon's dissolvable polymeric eye inserts with a biodegradable polymer, Amgen's electronic drug delivery device, Frito-Lay's vending machine for foodstuffs, Ironwood Cyber's generating upsampled signal from gyroscope data, OmniMax USA's smart desk and chair, Pavestone's random linear paving slab, SanDisk's vertical mapping and computing for deep neural networks in non-volatile memory, and Toyota's ramp merging assistance.
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HackDFW Returns for 2022 to Connect Tech Talent to Companies
by | Aug 17, 2022
The Dallas Regional Chamber's talent-attraction arm — Say Yes to Dallas — powers the event. 

A roster of company sponsors expands career opportunities for HackDFW participants, says DRC's Duane Dankesreiter. “Last year we gave over 600 resumes to participating companies."
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Medicine Delivered in Plant Seeds? UNT Researchers Get $1.4M Grant for a First-of-Its-Kind Study
by | Aug 17, 2022
The University of North Texas BioDiscovery Institute's $1.4 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation is seeding research in sustainable medicine—literally.

“What we're thinking long-term is that if plants can store medicines in seeds, you eat the seeds, and the medicine is already contained. You don't have all these factories, you don't need any chemicals—it's just there and available,” said UNT lead researcher Elizabeth Skellam.
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of August 2
by | Aug 17, 2022

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros.

Patents granted include:
• 7-Eleven's vector-based object re-identification during image tracking
Amazon's multi-factor message-based authentication for network resources
Blue Yonder Group's sentient optimization for continuous supply chain management
BMIC's methods of forming an adhesive composition from asphalt shingle waste powder
Cali-Curl's hair curling system
Gradalis' methods for treating cancers
McAfee's methods and apparatus to deconflict malware or content remediation
NCH Corporation's system method and composition for incubating spores for use in aquaculture agriculture wastewater and environmental remediation applications
vSpatial's devices and methods for creating a collaborative virtual session

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The Last Word: Wired’s Steven Levy on How Tech Is Changing Us, and Why There’s No Stopping Innovation

Levy has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A founding writer at Wired, he's widely considered to be the premier tech journalist in the U.S. He’s covered the digital revolution since the early 1980s, reporting every major trend and profiling its key figures. Today, as a keynote speaker on the closing day of Dallas Startup Week, he took stock of how we got here—and what's next. 
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Dallas Invents: 127 Patents Granted for Week of July 19
by | Aug 10, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: State Farm's Autonomous Vehicle Insurance Based Upon Usage, Oracle's Detection Of Malware In Documents, Amazon's Flexible Container Chutes For Sortation Systems, Samsung's Mesh Compression, Polte's Network Architecture And Methods For Location Services, and more.
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Dallas Philanthropist Lyda Hill Is One of Five Winners of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
by | Aug 4, 2022
Dallas' Lyda Hill has been named one of five recipients of the 2022 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. She shares the philanthropic spotlight with four other "forces for positive change," including country music legend Dolly Parton.

An early donor of the research that led to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Hill believes that "science is the answer"—and has chosen to donate the entirety of her estate to philanthropy and scientific research. 
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Dallas Invents: 144 Patents Granted for Week of July 12
by | Aug 3, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AIM Designs' locker with reclining seat and roll-up door, Parkhub's system for monitoring arrival of a vehicle at a given location and associated methods, Rettrobands' flat tire safety insert, Strong Products Group's connector for raceway, Toyota's visualizing and modeling thermomechanical stress using photoluminescence, Linear Labs' brushed electric motor/generator, Boot Royalty's comfort system for boots, Caterpillar's drill head position determination system, and more.
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