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Jacobs Signs a $29M Cybersecurity Support Contract With the USPTO

by | Apr 6, 2020
Dallas-based Jacobs will support all systems in the enterprise IT environment for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Health Tech: Dallas-based American Heart Association Awards $14M in Research Grants for Heart, Brain, and COVID-19 Innovation
by | Apr 5, 2020
Four teams awarded the grants will create the AHA's tenth 'Strategically Focused Research Network.' The collaboration will center on heath technologies and innovation.
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‘3 Parts Hope, 2 Parts Capital Preservation’: How Dallas-based LinedanceAI is Building the Next Data Frontier from Human Movement Now
by | Apr 3, 2020
Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, LinedanceAI continues to innovate. Its machine‑learning platform can analyze a human body’s joint-level movement (in real time) for use in sports, healthcare, security, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 143 Patents Granted for Week of March 24
by | Mar 31, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Avodah's visual language interpretation system and user interface, CapSen Robotics' 3-D scanner with detector pose identification, Cardpool's gift card exchange kiosks and methods of use, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings' portable dialysis machine, and The Patent Well's UV LED disinfecting floor mat.
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Dallas Biopharma ReCode Therapeutics Gets $80M Series A Investment for Lung Disease Drugs

by | Mar 27, 2020
The investment from multiple sources, including local early-stage investor Hunt Technology Ventures, is the largest funding round by a startup this year in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Discovery: HSC Opens COVID-19 Test Site for Tarrant County First Responders
by | Mar 27, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also read about four UTA faculty members being honored by the National Academy of Inventors as Senior Members.
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Smart Electric Motor Maker Linear Labs Benefits from Supply Chain Independence
by | Mar 26, 2020
The unique attributes of Linear Labs' Hunstable Electric Turbine sets the Fort Worth company apart from other manufacturers of electric motors dependent upon materials sourced from specific regions.
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Dallas’ Unique Software Development is 3D Printing Respirators for the COVID-19 Shortage
by | Mar 26, 2020
For healthcare workers locally and nationally, the software development company is producing as many as 400 respirators a day—pro bono—with its 20 in-house printers. And, the design can be sanitized, allowing a common surgical mask to be reused 6-10 times.
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The North Texas Fashion Industry is Making Medical Masks Amid Shortages to Fight COVID-19

by | Mar 24, 2020
We spoke with six locals in fashion who are all facing the coronavirus pandemic head-on by sewing, importing, sourcing, or donating medical masks.
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Dallas Native’s Everlywell Releases First At-Home COVID-19 Test Rollout
by | Mar 24, 2020
Everlywell is the first U.S. company to offer at-home COVID-19 tests, which people can order online starting on March 23.
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Discovery: UTSW Studies Existing Drugs to Fight COVID-19, UTA Researches Economic Abuse
by | Mar 20, 2020
Check out our weekly roundup on research and development activities by North Texas organizations to stay up-to-date on the important work.
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Get Growing: Dallas’ Gardenuity and Alto Will Deliver a Garden to Your Door

by | Mar 20, 2020
During a time of COVID-19 social distancing, these local startups wanted a way for the North Texas community to grow together—literally.
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Dallas Invents: 104 Patents Granted for Week of March 10
by | Mar 18, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Linear Labs's method and apparatus for power generation, ATT Mobility's adaptive rate of congestion indicator to enhance intelligent traffic steering, Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, D4D Technologies'dental CAD/CAM application with real-time detail highlighting on 3D models, Geodynamics' preventing downhole airlock device and method, Good Sportsman Marketing's reconfigurable hunting blind, Rain Bird's volumetric budget-based irrigation control, Siemens Healthcare's deep learning-based bone removal in computed tomography angiography, and Swipejobs' job matching application, method, and system.
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Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Mobile Solution for Providers to Screen and Monitor Patients Remotely
by | Mar 16, 2020
The Plano-based remote patient monitoring startup is now offering providers a no-cost solution for low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms simply by answering a series of questions.
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HSC Researchers Make Stem Cell Discovery That Could Help Fight Coronavirus
by | Mar 16, 2020
A professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center is collaborating with an international team to test whether stem cells can combat COVID-19 pneumonia.
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