Invention

Preventing Heatstroke Deaths: Plano-Based Toyota Uses 4D Radar to Detect Passengers Who’ve Been Left Behind

by | May 31, 2022
In 2021 alone, 23 kids in the U.S. died of heatstroke after being left in hot cars. Now a team from Plano-based Toyota Connected North America has developed new tech that uses millimeter-wave, high-resolution 4D imaging radar to detect passengers who've been left behind in a vehicle.

When that happens, a long list of alerts from car honks to flashing lights to texts and smart home device messages could lead to the biggest impact of all: saving a child's life.
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Dallas Invents: 121 Patents Granted for Week of April 26
by | May 25, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Capital One's auto-recovery for software system, Caris' next-gen molecular profiling, Nice Ltd.'s automated scheduling assistant for a workforce management system, University of Minnesota and Smithsonian Institution's cryopreservation compositions and methods involving nanowarming, State Farm's dynamic auto insurance policy quote creation based on tracked user data, and more.
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From right: DRC's Jorge Varela (far right) moderated a panel of industry experts including biotech C-level executive Hua Tu, Health Wildcatters CEO and co-founder Hubert Zajicek, and LH Capital Director Matt Crommett.
‘From a Trickle to a Waterfall’: How Biotech’s Flow is Growing in DFW
by | May 24, 2022
"It takes time" to establish a track record, Jorge Varela says, and the region is starting to see a series of biotech successes and spinoffs that will elevate the region's profile as a biotech hub.

According to a panel of experts at Urban Land Institute's 2022 spring meeting, here are factors drawing biotech to DFW.
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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of April 19
by | May 18, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Amera IoT's apparatus for creating and using quantum resistant keys, AT&T's dynamic edge computations for 6G or other next generation network, BNSF's remote device monitoring, Capital One's automated teller machine to issue a secured bank card, General Electric's efficient hands-free electric vehicle charger for autonomous vehicles in uncontrolled environments, University of Texas System's organ specific delivery of nucleic acids, Water Now's purification system with a centrifugal system and a frictional heater system, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 124 Patents Granted for Week of April 12

by | May 10, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's three-lens intraocular lens system, Berg's treatment of cancer by continuous infusion of coenzyme Q10, BLH Ecology Concepts' process to produce nanoparticles, CubicPV's perovskite material processing, IBM's prototype creation based on analytics and 3D printing, Lintec of America's manufacturing of artificial muscle actuators, QORVO's packages for advanced antenna systems, and USAA's autonomous vehicle control system.
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Dallas Invents: 138 Patents Granted for Week of April 5
by | May 4, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's custom rack for scalable position tracking system, Bank of America's robotics process automation macro bot, CB Geotex's method of maintaining soil strength and stability, Golabs' self-balancing vehicle, K2M's expandable spinal implants, Match Group's matching users based on selections made by third parties, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 142 Patents Granted for Week of March 29
by | Apr 27, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's media content distribution system, Bank of America's AR dynamic authentication for electronic transactions, DJO's personalized image-based guidance for energy-based therapeutic devices, Ed Tucker Distributor's starting device for a motorcycle, Huawei's wireless battery charging with improved efficiency, and PACCAR's methods for providing augmented reality support for vehicle service operations.
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of March 22
by | Apr 20, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. 1A Smart Start's wearable transdermal alcohol sensor device; Agarik Sas' method for scheduling computer tasks; and Botsitter's remote monitoring, care, and maintenance of animals.
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Dallas Invents: 91 Patents Granted for Week of March 15

by | Apr 13, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's tracking positions using a scalable position tracking system, Accenture's self-managed intelligent elastic cloud stack, and TMGCore's robotics employed in processes and systems for liquid immersion cooling, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 123 Patents Granted for Week of March 8
by | Apr 5, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Advanced Custom Engineered Systems Equipment Co. apparatus for monitoring waste removal, Amera loT's apparatus for imprinting private key on IoT, Bank of America's network security system for rogue devices, Baylor Research Institute's nucleic acids encoding anti-CD40 antibodies, D4D Technologies' intra-oral scanning device with active delete of unwanted scanned items, Halliburton's autonomous tractor using counter flow-driven propulsion, IBM's electronic messaging display optimization, Lenovo's presentation of AR content based on identification of trigger accompanying video content, Toyota's creating a valuable video clip using metadata flagging, and Wells Fargo Bank's ATM bill pay.
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Big D Can Be Davos for the Brain Economy
Brain health is at the forefront of an economy that's increasingly knowledge intensive. With innovation spanning precision diagnostics and treatment matching to economic policies and innovative investment models, there's a "golden opportunity" to lead the brain health revolution.

"Dallas is uniquely positioned to lead the way for the state, the country, and the world," according to these science, policy, and finance experts.
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ICYMI 2022: The Q1 Archive
TIAA is moving to The Star in Frisco, PeopleFun names a female CEO, DIFF readies for its first-ever spring preview of films, and more.
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Fort Worth’s AyuVis Is One Step Closer to Protecting Pre-Term Babies from a Leading Cause of Death

by | Mar 31, 2022
Fort Worth-based AyuVis just received its second patent in three months for its immunotherapy treatments that protect pre-term babies from a debilitating chronic lung disease that affects many pre-term infants on ventilators.

The startup's lead drug candidate—AVR-48—is scheduled for clinical trials this summer.
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Dallas Invents: 119 Patents Granted for Week of March 1
by | Mar 29, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baxter International's home renal therapy machine, Capital One's techniques to deploy an application as a cloud computing service, Digital Seat Media's digital record verification, Frito-Lay's heat seal jaws with asymmetric teeth, Kyndryl's enhanced multi-workspace chatbot, Neurolens' integrated progressive lens simulator, Poly-America's scented drawstring bag, RO5's automated pharmaceutical research utilizing context workspaces, Sortera Alloys' identifying coins from scrap, Texas Instruments' system-on-chip for smoke alarm, and Toyota's health advisory alert systems.
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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 22
by | Mar 23, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Amazon's item identification based on receipt image, Apple's cylindrical desktop electronic device, Lennox Industries' carbon dioxide cooling system with subcooling, Linear Labs' multi-tunnel electric motor/generator, Match Group's method for matching using location information, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 119 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 15
by | Mar 16, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ArchAngel Fire Systems' suppression of fire growth, Auris Health's axial motion drive for a robotic medical system, Bank of America's real-time authenticated obfuscation of electronic data, UT Systems' wireless tissue stimulation devices, C-Bond Systems' compositions for strengthening glass, Crown Holdings Management's cowboy hat with interior head protection, Kyndryl's autonomous vehicle detection, Textron Innovations' takeoff power boost, and Toyota's driver swapping.
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