Invention

Meet the 13 Winners of Dallas Innovates’ and D CEO’s 2021 Innovation Awards

by | Jan 22, 2021
Here are the companies and leaders driving innovation in North Texas.
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Dallas Diagnostics Lab Partners With Baylor University for On-Site COVID-19 Testing Lab and Research Facility
by | Jan 21, 2021
Dallas-based My Labs Direct, which offers a 'hassle-free direct-pay alternative to lab testing,' will become the official research lab and COVID-19 testing partner for Baylor University. Baylor will open a molecular PCR lab at its Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative, allowing for three on-campus testing sites to open for operation.
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Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 5
by | Jan 20, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's scalable position tracking for large spaces, Adobe's AI for enhanced digital content and improved campaign design, American Airlines' method for optimally managing aircraft assets, Avegant Corp.'s relative position-based eye-tracking system, Bell Textron's multidirectional airspeed detection system, Bentley Motors' movement-based comfort adjustment, Siemens Healthcare's deep image-to-image network learning for medical image analysis, and Zinwave's multi-range communication system using RF and millimeter wave signals.
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Meet the Future 50: Dallas-Fort Worth Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know in 2021
These standouts—entrepreneurs, leaders, inventors, creatives, and educators—are disrupting industries, solving challenges, and making Dallas-Fort Worth (and beyond) a better place in a year like no other.
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Dallas Invents: 150 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 29

by | Jan 13, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's camera array for a scalable position tracking system, Avaya's selective communication event extraction, Cisco's active speaker naming in ICN-based real-time communication systems, Micronizing Technologies beneficiation of hydrocarbons from mineral matrices, Textron's foldable wings for UAS with a geared interface, Toyota's telepresence drones, USAA's digital identification system, and Vpay's merchant portal system.
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Plano-Based Fintech Uses Voice Authentication as Quick Means to Prove Identities
by | Jan 10, 2021
With an increase in call volumes during the pandemic, Illuma Labs' flagship product offers credit unions real-time voice authentication powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Dallas Innovates 2021: The Resilience Issue
The collective strength of the innovation ecosystem and intellectual capital in Dallas-Fort Worth is a force to be reckoned with.
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Dallas Invents: 86 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 22
by | Jan 6, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros.
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Dallas Invents: 85 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 15

by | Dec 30, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros.
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Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 8
by | Dec 23, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's method for populating a virtual shopping cart based on video of a customers shopping session at a physical store, AB Creations' vehicle disable black box, AT&T's automatic physical access to secure areas, Microsoft's optimized sign out for single account services, R2 Solutions' system for enhanced search term suggestion, SMU's additive manufacturing of active devices using dielectric, conductive, and magnetic materials, and Toyota's vehicle-based geo-fencing system.
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UT Dallas Computer Scientists Create Video Game Mechanism To Detect Cheating
by | Dec 22, 2020
Using popular video game Counter-Strike, researchers have created a cheat detection mechanism that can be used in a variety of games. The research is especially important as it has the potential to affect the near $1 billion esports industry.
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TWU Health Sciences Dean Patents a New Way to Predict Medical Conditions—by a Person’s Walk 
by | Dec 17, 2020
Christopher Ray, the dean of the College of Health Sciences at Texas Woman's University, received a patent for the ability to predict and prevent medical events and conditions based on a patient's gait.
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Dallas’ Hedera Hashgraph Powers a COVID-19 and STD Digital Testing App

by | Dec 15, 2020
Hedera Hashgraph and Safe Health Systems created the SAFE HealthCheck app, a health status verification platform that's anchored to your verified testing records.
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Toyota Motor North America Advances Fuel Cell Electric Tech on Heavy-Duty Truck Prototype
by | Dec 14, 2020
"This is an important step in the transition to emissions-free heavy-duty trucks," according to TMNA Research and Development's chief engineer Andrew Lund.
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HSC Invests $7M to Research Why African Americans Are at Greater Risk of Alzheimer’s
by | Dec 9, 2020
The University of North Texas Health Science Center is recruiting 1,000 African Americans from North Texas to participate in its HABLE study for Alzheimer’s research, which tends to focus solely on non-Latino whites.
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Dallas Invents: 128 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 24
by | Dec 9, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's desktop electronic device, Astrapi's devices employing polynomial symbol waveforms, Capital One's augmented reality navigation, CerSci Therapeutics' compounds for pain treatment, Dell's remote integrity assurance of a secured virtual environment, Intellective Ai's anomalous stationary object detection and reporting, Lintec of America's nanofiber yarn dispenser, Parkifi's parking sensor magnetometer calibration, and Spark Connected's wireless power transfer through low-e window.
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