Invention

Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 8

by | Sep 23, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 1974 Productions' delivering music content to a smart phone, 7-Eleven's tracking positions using a scalable position tracking system, Amazon's multi-channel order management, Flowserve's permanent magnet submersible motor, SMU's imaging hidden objects, and Toyota's vehicle-to-vehicle sensor data sharing.
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Winfield Place in Downtown Fort Worth Is for Sale—and Its Innovation Lies in the Elevator
by | Sep 22, 2020
A 1919 freight elevator turned moving glass conference room brings the 101-year-old building into the future.
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At the Fourth Annual iC3 Life Science Summit at UT Arlington on Oct. 10, 2017 recipient Lyda Hill will present the award. To register for the summit, visit www.bionorthtx.org. [Illustration: bestbrk/istockphoto]
Bio North Texas Shifts iC3 Life Sciences Summit to Virtual Event
by | Sep 22, 2020
Networking—always a highlight of the biotech event— is still a cornerstone thanks to a new virtual conference platform, its organizers said.
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Calling All Innovators: Pediatric Hospitals Seek Solutions for Healthcare Pain Points Through KidsX Accelerator
by | Sep 17, 2020
Over 30 pediatric hospitals including Dallas' Children's Health have come together through an accelerator program called KidsX. Startups are invited to apply to help these hospitals solve pain points through Oct. 7.
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Mission Critical: How an Irving-Based IoT Company Tracks Medical Equipment With a New 20-Mile Beacon

by | Sep 15, 2020
Apptricity says the bluetooth beacon can be "the difference between life and death." Healthcare professionals can track medical equipment to limit misplacement and cross contamination, as well as collect data for contact tracing.
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COVID Killer: This Newly Launched Dallas Company Brings UVC Tech to Consumers
by | Sep 14, 2020
PureBeam says it can completely eliminate germs on surfaces or in the air without leaving a residue—a gamechanger when it comes to areas contaminated by coronavirus.
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Hubert Zajicek Health Wildcatters
Health Wildcatters Adds Nine New Startups to Its Portfolio
by | Sep 10, 2020
The new cohort brings the number of startups under Health Wildcatter's umbrella to 77, according to CEO Hubert Zajicek.
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Plano’s Enseo Faces the Pandemic With New Patents and Touchless Tech
by | Sep 10, 2020
The Plano-based firm has been issued a batch of patents in 2020 related to touchless technology designed to help hotel customers and associates during the pandemic and beyond.
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Dallas Invents: 150 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 25

by | Sep 9, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Textron Innovations' autonomous package delivery aircraft, Interstate Battery's battery ecosystem, American Airline's demand class remapping for airline seat bookings, NIKE's ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear, ADT's portable system for managing events, Global Tel*Link's product ordering and delivery for inmates, R2 Solutions' targeted sidebar advertising, Ortloff Engineers' hydrocarbon gas processing, and Oceus Networks' mobile cellular networks
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Military Innovation Experts Discuss Future Advancements, Ideating, and Defense Innovation
by | Sep 8, 2020
James Rabuck and Alexander Goldberg explained how the Texas Military Department Joint Innovation Unit, aka the TMDx, brings together the military and private sectors to bridge the gap from brainstorming to implementation for defense advancement during a Dallas Startup Week discussion.
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Top 10 Dallas Innovates August 2020
Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in August
Rising to the top of the list: How the private charitable foundation of Dallas Mavericks Owner and “Shark” Mark Cuban partnered up with tech companies to bring an "AI Bootcamp" to underserved DFW students. Here's our roundup of the Top 10.
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 18
by | Sep 2, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's approach for traffic overhead and UE mobility tradeoff, Audatex North America's mobile system for generating a damaged vehicle insurance estimate, Capital One's database image matching using machine learning with output estimation, Flowserve's near field RF powered electronic valve actuator, Ingar's management of aerial drone parcel transfers, IBM's location-aware trust-based P2P currency exchange, Lennox's intelligent defrost control method, and Oceus's mobile cellular networks.
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NTT Data Pushes Dallas-Fort Worth Startups to Enter Open Innovation Contest

by | Sep 1, 2020
CTO Kris Fitzgerald thinks of Dallas as having "pragmatic innovation." NTT DATA wants to tap into that.
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APS named Ice Robotics' high tech cleaner "Whiz." [Photo: Ice Robotics]
This DFW Commercial Cleaner Wants to Disrupt an Industry with Robotics, Green Clean, and Purpose
$25,000 to disinfect an office building? Toxic chemicals sprayed in a daycare? Thomas Holland, founder of APEX Property Services, has heard all the complaints about janitorial services. Now he intends to shake up the status quo. His company—a certified B Corp—is one of a limited number of preferred partners that can apply Allied BioScience's SurfaceWise2, the first antiviral surface coating approved by the EPA last week.
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Dallas Invents: 122 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 11
by | Aug 26, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Accenture's rendering virtual objects in 3D environments, AirWay Technologies' apparatus for improved breathing, Amazon's parallelized forensic analysis using cloud-based servers, Oceus Networks' secure network enrollment, REWARDSTYLE's screenshot linking, VPay's payment card reconciliation, and Toyota's agreement acceptance for vehicle platooning.
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CerSci
Dallas-based Biotech CerSci Acquired by ACADIA Pharmaceutical in $52.5M Deal
by | Aug 25, 2020
CerSci shareholders could net another $887 million in milestones and tiered royalties. The clinical-stage startup, which launched in 2015, is developing a new generation of non-opioid meds to treat acute and chronic pain.
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