Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's prioritized network based on service and user device, Honda's applied artificial intelligence for natural language processing automotive reporting system, IBM's augment politeness in question answer systems, Liberty Peak Ventures' funding a radio frequency device transaction, Mitogrow's vitamin-hormone horticultural product, and Texas Instruments' bluetooth data forwarding.
James Klein has been president of Qorvo’s Richardson-headquartered Infrastructure and Defense Products since 2015. The IDP business, with its three North Texas facilities, manufactures nearly 80 million semiconductors each week, the company said in a news release last year. [Photo: Qorvo]