Invention

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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#killQWERTY: Here’s Why Plano’s CharaChorder Reinvented the Keyboard (Hint: To Keep Up With Your Brain)

by | Aug 20, 2020
With two new investments and a $2.5M evaluation, the startup plans to ship an input device that can better match the speed of the human brain in December.

CharaChorder thinks it's positioned as one of the leading consumer electronics startups in Texas.
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Southlake BioTech Startup Gets $10M Grant from CPRIT for Technology That ‘Lights Up’ Cancer
by | Aug 20, 2020
OncoNano Medicine, a spinout of University of Texas Southwestern, uses pH as a biomarker to detect metastatic cancer. Its technology, which visualizes a tumor, could be a gamechanger.
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Dallas Invents: 144 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 4
by | Aug 19, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bell's personal air vehicle with ducted fans, Cambium Learning's tags for unlocking digital content, Capital One's vehicle recommendations by user-valued features, StacyC's convertible motorized running cycle, USAA's indoor drone flight awareness system, and Walmart's workflow coordinator.
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West End Downtown Dallas
DDI Foundation Donates $300K for West End Park Water Feature That Changes With the Weather
by | Aug 18, 2020
The interactive water table will bubble, mist, or be still as it reacts to Dallas weather. West End Square is slated for completion in early 2021.
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Smart Tech Partners: North Texas‑Based Polte and Teltech Bring Asset Tracking Solutions to IoT Marketplace

by | Aug 13, 2020
The Native American and woman-owned Teltech Group has launched a virtual IoT marketplace for Polte-powered real-time tracking solutions. Last month, Frisco-based Teltech announced a new lease for a 200,000 square-foot industrial space in Flower Mound, where it will consolidate operations.
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of July 28
by | Aug 12, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AiBUY's peer-assisted shopping, Bone Solutions' implant of osteostimulative material, Dell's proximity-based authorization for encryption and decryption services, Intellective AI's logical sensor generation in a behavioral recognition system, Lintec of America's nanofiber fabric, Luminator Holding's monitoring a signage system of a transit vehicle, and USAA's voice synthesis for virtual agents.
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Align Capital Acquires Transportation Tech Company to Speed Scale, Mobility Solutions
by | Aug 10, 2020
Richardson-based Electronic Transaction Consultants, a toll tech leader that processes billions of transactions each year, plans to extend into markets where mobility-as-a-service and intelligent transportation systems merge.
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MassChallenge Texas: Meet the Summer Cohort
by | Aug 6, 2020
In a new limited series, Dallas Innovates is highlighting the local startups in MassChallenge Texas' latest cohort, which aims to make the state "the best in the world to start and scale a business."
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