Invention

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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Smart City Boost: Agency Adds Broadband to its Transportation Solutions Toolkit
by | Apr 13, 2022

Most anyone who has been commuting to work over the past two years has likely noticed a decrease in traffic.

Brookings Institution noted that metro traffic congestion was cut in half after COVID-19 hit in 2020, attributing it largely to employees working virtually from home, and more flexible work schedules (though government stay-at-home orders figured prominently as well)....

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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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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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EVERY LAST WORD 2022: The Q1 Archive
These quotable North Texans inspire, inform, motivate, or simply make us laugh.
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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: 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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Dallas Invents: 85 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 8
by | Mar 9, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's scalable position tracking system for tracking position in large spaces, Conduent Business Services' video-based automated detection of double-parking violations, Facebook Technologies' modifying a safety boundary for virtual reality systems, Magic Leap's object interactivity in virtual space, TI's protecting memory against unauthorized access, Toyota's sensor cleaning system and sensor cleaning method for vehicle, and Wells Fargo's processing nuances in natural language.
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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 1
by | 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.
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Dallas Invents: 99 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 25

by | 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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Dallas Invents: 81 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 18
by | 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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TMGcore CEO Sees Trend in ‘Born in Liquid’ Servers
by | Feb 15, 2022
TMGcore is innovating high-performance computing with its sustainable commercial immersion cooling solutions. "Servers two years from now will only be immersion compatible,” CEO John-David Enright says.
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Dallas Invents: 82 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 11
by | 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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