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Corey Clark, Ph.D. is the CTO of BALANCED Media | Technology. [Photo: Courtesy Corey Clark]
Local Startup Aims to Save Peoples’ Sight with Video Games
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.
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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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 26, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include.
Adobe's depicting humans in text-defined outfits, Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems' dual-mode spectral dimming lighting system, Bulletproof Property Management's digital camera zoom control facility, CareView Communications' documenting patient procedures, CommScope Technologies' small cell antenna and cable mounting guides, Rolls-Royce's turbine engine fleet wash management system, and Xtenti's modular and configurable spacecraft attachment and deployment assemblies.
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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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PocketECG IV monitor from MediLynx. [Image: MediLynx]
Plano-Based MediLynx Rolls Out PocketECG That Intelligently Monitors the Heart—Remotely
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 31, 2021
Read “who said what” in our roundup of quotable North Texans, including Perot Jain's Anurag Jain; EarthX's Trammell S. Crow; American Airlines' Doug Parker; and more.
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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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ICYMI 2021: The Q4 Archive
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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by Alex Edwards |
Dec 16, 2021
Travelers shopping at Hudson Nonstop stores inside Dallas Love Field Airport will be the first to try Amazon One, a contactless way to enter and pay for items using only the palm of your hand.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 16, 2021
Powered by the sun and the river's current, two Trinity River Waterwheels will be able to capture tons of floating pollution daily—keeping the waterway pristine as it flows through Fort Worth. The city council voted Tuesday to accept private donations to support the initiative. One official says the results will be "astonishing."
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Tech Titans innovation chair Andrew Olowu, CTO of Axxess, presents a $20K check for winning the Tech Titans Grand Challenge on edge computing to BALANCED | Media Technology’s CTO Dr. Corey Clark and CEO Robert M. Atkins. [Photo: Tech Titans]
McKinney-Based BALANCED Wins Tech Titans Award for Connecting Gamers and COVID Research Through Edge Computing
by David Seeley | Dec 10, 2021
BALANCED Media | Technology has won the second annual Grand Challenge competition for its edge computing solution. Gamers downloaded a small game. While they played, they were also processing data to help find COVID-fighting compounds.
Its HEWMEN crowd-computing platform
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![MP’s new magnetics facility in Fort Worth's AllianceTexas development will source materials from Mountain Pass, California and aims to help restore a fully integrated U.S. supply chain. [Rendering: MP Materials]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MP-Materials-Fort-Worth-Magnet-Manufacturing-Facility-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Dec 9, 2021
The new magnet manufacturing facility will be the headquarters for MP Magnetics, the company's growing magnetics division.
Production at the new facility could ultimately power 500,000 EV motors each year. MP, which entered a long-term supply agreement with General Motors for rare earth materials and parts, says manufacturing could begin in 2023.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 8, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Astrapi's communication devices, systems, software and methods employing symbol waveform hopping; BILT's enhanced information delivery during a customer support session; Digital Seat Media's location-based individualized content and mobile wallet offers; IBM's repetitive stress and compulsive anxiety prevention system; Luraco's massage chair with wireless charger, armrest sliding, hammering devices, and oxygen generation; Nanoscope Technologies' optogenetic modulation by multi-characteristic opsins for vision restoration and other applications; T-Mobile USA's streaming conversion; Tankbots' methods for performing tasks in a tank containing hazardous substances; Sherwin-Williams' method for determining coating requirements; and more.
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by Dave Moore |
Dec 7, 2021
Arlington's Cooper Street Smart Mobility Corridor uses "connected vehicle-to-everything" technologies to alert drivers to traffic light changes, nearby pedestrians and cyclists, approaching fire trucks, and more.
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