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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 1
by Quincy Preston | Mar 2, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: A9.COM's visual search with attribute manipulation, Astrapi's transmitting and receiving data using non-periodic functions, AT&T's time-spaced messaging for facilitating network communications, Bank of America's digital passport with verified data provenance, Hunt Energy Enterprise's distributed energy control, Toyota's traffic flow prediction and more.
by Dave Moore |
Feb 28, 2022
Jorge Varela has spent decades building startups in Silicon Valley, San Antonio, and even in Central America—his place of origin.
Now his efforts will center on North Texas' innovation economy.
“The shift from Silicon Valley and the East Coast to Texas and DFW is real,” Varela says.
“The shift from Silicon Valley and the East Coast to Texas and DFW is real,” Varela says.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 22, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Accenture's virtual objects in 3D environments, American Security Products' physical article exchange using a smart safe, Arm Ltd.'s tracking events of interest to mitigate attacks, Bank of America's interbot communication, BNSF's railroad virtual track block system, Capital One's payment card with removable insert and identification elements, Intellective AI's anomalous stationary object detection and reporting, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' code trigger telemedicine session, Siemens Healthcare's next-gen MRI spine evaluation, and Textron Innovations's stowable wing aircraft with dual, fuselage-mounted engines.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 16, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AiBUY's interactive product placement system, Amazon's computing management using multiple latency options, Astrapi's polynomial symbol waveforms, Robomart's one-tap/command grocery ordering via self-driving mini marts and seamless checkout-free tech, SpeedChain's systemized blockchain reconciliation in a hybrid distributed network ecosystem, Toyota's identifying changes in the condition of a transport, and Walmart Apollo's air-cooled ammonia refrigeration systems.
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AT&T's patent No. 11222308-B2 describes automated tool tracking for service technicians. [Image: paisan191/istockphoto]
Dallas Invents: 82 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 11
by Quincy Preston | Feb 9, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's automated equipment tracking for service technicians, Gemmy's wall lamp with lighting effect resembling peacock feather spreading, IBM's response collaboration among multiple artificial intelligence (AI) systems, Securus' virtual reality services within controlled-environment facility, State Farm's method for identifying locations with lifestyle preferences, Swirlds' distributed database that enables deletion of events, TI's power-efficient LIDAR, and Verizon's traffic monitoring systems and methods.
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by Dave Moore |
Feb 8, 2022
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin develops real-time digital intel, VR, and CGI to counter threats and keep people safe. One way the company accelerates new technologies and capabilities is through its Innovation Centers, the first of which opened in 2016 in Grand Prairie....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 7, 2022
McKinney-based BALANCED Media|Technology, SMU, and the Retina Foundation of the Southwest are collaborating to commercialize technology to fight age-related macular degeneration.
Using a crowdsourced video game, players help the team create new data sets out of captured retinal images, helping to lead to potential breakthroughs in detection and treatment.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 2, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alixa Rx’s Automated medication dispensing unit, American Airlines’ virtual automated real-time assistant, BMIC’s liquid applied roofing system with improved moisture barrier layer, The University of Texas’ collaborative distributed agent-based traffic light system and method of use, DJO’s wound healing electrode set, Flypsi’s telephone network system and method, Intellective AI’s alert volume normalization in a video surveillance system, KPMG’s converting table data into component parts, ModoPayments’ COIN operated digital payments hub, o9 Solutions’ plan modeling visualization, and USAA’s detecting items at a property.
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Dallas Invents: 71 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 21
by Quincy Preston | Jan 19, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's multi-camera image tracking on a global plane, Amazon's active safety systems for item sortation equipment, Brain Games' electronic all-in game, Fashion For Globe's searching and obtaining clothing designs while discouraging copying, IBM's data analytics and insights brokerage service, McAfee's detection and mitigation of fileless security threats, State Farm's facilitating real estate transactions by analyzing user-provided data, TazKai's real-time progressive examination preparation platform , TI's low-power wakeup pattern detection of multiple data streams, and UniWell's pharmaceutical compositions.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 13, 2022
Dallas Innovates and D CEO celebrated 78 honorees and revealed the winners of our third-annual Innovation Awards at an event held at The Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Here's a full list of winners and finalists.
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by Leslie Barker |
Jan 11, 2022
The newly patented mobile cardiac monitor from MediLynx can stream an entire, continuous ECG signal to a physician or monitoring center.
The signal is processed in the cloud "in near real-time by a super-deep convolutional neural network with over 100 layers."
The signal is processed in the cloud "in near real-time by a super-deep convolutional neural network with over 100 layers."
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![TI's new radar sensor gives automotive engineers more tools that can fuel vehicle innovation. [Source image: Texas Instruments]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/TI-radar-sensor_courtesy-360x203.jpg)
by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 4, 2022
Unveiled at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, the new sensor more accurately monitors blind spots and navigates turns and corners to help avoid collisions.
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Fort Worth's Zooz Bikes received patent No. D938313. [Image: USPTO]
Dallas Invents: 91 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 14
by Quincy Preston | Dec 29, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Air Distribution Technologies' variable air volume diffuser, Dell's apparatus for generation of a time-based one-time password for session encryption of sensor data gathered in low-performance and IoT environments, PD Golf's detecting lower body positions, movements, and sequence in golf swing training, Raytheon's bus monitoring system for detecting anomalies indicative of malfunctions or cyber-attacks, SmartDrive's autonomous vehicle operator performance tracking, UATP IP's wearable RFID device, and Zooz Bikes' electric bike.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 22, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's connection management service, Capital One's AR vehicle search assistance, Toyota's automated crowd sourcing of road environment information, USAA's anonymizing transaction information, Walgreen's window guard for cosmetic products, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 21, 2021
You’ve found Dallas Innovates’ archive of news briefs from October to December 2021.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 20, 2021
Co-founded by Cesar Millan and two IoT-pioneering brothers, the startup sells the Halo Collar—a dog collar that stores up to 20 GPS wireless smart fences, with dog-training tech built in. Founded in 2018, the company has raised around $25 million to date, mostly through this latest Series B.
According to Millan, "This funding will accelerate our mission of no more lost dogs, while at the same time, allow more dogs to follow, play, and explore every day."
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