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Discovery: UT Southwestern Finds Coronavirus Vulnerabilties, CPRIT Awards North Texans $21M for Cancer Research

by | Feb 21, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll read about a study led by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington that could lead to better treatment for osteoporosis, and the Center for BrainHealth seeking pilot phase participants.
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Dallas Invents: 117 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 11
by | Feb 19, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AiBUY's dynamic binding of supplemental content to video, Samsung's method for 360-degree video navigation, Daifuku Co.'s automatic tire loader/unloader, DFB's treatment of skin malignancies using nanoparticles of taxanes, and Toyota's assessment of human driving performance using autonomous vehicles.
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Dallas Aerospace Startup FusionFlight Takes Off With Fully Autonomous Drone
by | Feb 18, 2020
FusionFlight, which received a $50,000 seed investment in 2016, has built and tested "the world's smallest and most powerful jet-powered drone with vertical take-off and landing capabilities."
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Discovery: UTD Creates Virtual Reality ‘Patients’ for Med Students, UTA Professor Leads Upgrade of Large Hadron Collider
by | Feb 14, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out abut a University of North Texas professor researching how very young children see their world through photography.
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Dallas Invents: 142 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 4

by | Feb 12, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Frito-Lay's potato chip that has more oil near its outer surfaces, American Leather's seat convertible to a bed, Capital One's authorized data sharing using smart contracts, Google's dynamic digital certificate updating, IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems, Raytheon's shadow mask generation using elevation data, and ROCA Medical's therapeutic treatment kit for allergies based on DNA profiles.
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Trend Micro Spin-Out Cysiv Gets $26M to Scale Its Cloud-based Cybersecurity Platform
by | Feb 11, 2020
The Series A funding will help the Security Operations Center-as-a-Service provider address the challenges enterprises currently face in protecting their data.
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Discovery: UNT Prof Puts Virtual Chem Lab Inside Supercomputer and UTA Studies Groundwater Contamination
by | Feb 7, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out how a team at UT Dallas is repurposing an old MRI contrast agent to eliminate the need for using heavy metals.
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Worlds Raises $10M in Series A Funding as Dave Copps’ AI Startup Launches From Stealth
by | Feb 6, 2020
The startup, spun out of Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, plans to use the funding to power its "first-of-its-kind" Extended Reality environment, which can be used to build AI-models to give businesses and organizations a new way to view their physical world.
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Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in January
by | Feb 3, 2020
Take a look back on the stories that grabbed our readers' attention last month.
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Meet the Future 50: North Texas Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know
No matter which of our six buckets you look at—startup, enterprise, invention, education, innovation, or creative—you're sure to find leaders capable of disrupting industries, benefiting society, or changing the world.
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Discovery: UTSW Scientists Use AI to Improve Radiation Therapy, UTD Prof Gets $2.7M in Grants for Protein Research
by | Jan 31, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out about DART receiving a federal grant to help in the fight against human trafficking.
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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 21

by | Jan 29, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's narrow band awareness for in-device coexistence, Capital One's ground plane detection for placement of AR objects, CareView Communications' method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Dell's time-based local authentication in an information handling system utilizing asymmetric cryptography, Genband's denial-of-service protection for IP telephony systems, Texas Instruments' data encoder for power line communications, and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' apparatus for picking products.
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North Texas Corporate Innovators Set the Stage for Disruption
by | Jan 28, 2020
From public-safety blimps to revolutionary data centers, North Texas’ giants invented technology in 2019 to make our world a little bit better.
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The Sinclair, the ‘World’s First All-Digital Hotel,’ Opens in Downtown Fort Worth
by | Jan 27, 2020
The Sinclair, Autograph Collection celebrated its grand opening last week with a Roaring Twenties party, and Intel hosted a drone show in its honor. The firework-like display featured 500 drones that shifted between themed scenes (and had passersby wondering what was going on in the sky).
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These Are the 7 Trends That Could Shape Our Future
by | Jan 27, 2020
Anurag Jain of Dallas' Perot Jain says there are seven societal trends ripe with investment opportunity, where tiny disruptors can change industries. Here are the trends, along with North Texas companies that play in each space.
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