Invention

Ericsson’s Lewisville 5G Smart Factory Rolls Out First Product

by | Mar 12, 2020
Ericsson’s first smart factory in the U.S., based in Lewisville, is now operational with the production of 5G base stations to enable smooth, fast, and cost-effective 5G deployments.
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Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of March 3
by | Mar 11, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's autonomous driving systems using aerial vehicles, Amazon's camera-level image processing, Futurewei's noise cancellation system, Intuit's lean parsing (a natural language processing system), Knightscope's autonomous data machines and systems, Philip Morris's emulsified flavorants in tobacco-derived lipids, SMU's method for machine learning and classifying data, and Walmart's automated vehicle loading.
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The Innovation Ecosystem: Dallas-Fort Worth is a Big Place. It’s Also Remarkably Well Connected
Here’s where to meet the like-minded to talk tech and start stuff in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Discovery: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? UTSW May Have Found a Way
by | Mar 6, 2020
Plus, you'll also read out about a University of North Texas professor developing technology that could better diagnose cancer in our weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Raytheon and the National Science Foundation Collab to Detect Near-Earth Asteroids

by | Mar 4, 2020
Dusty asteroids in space are hard to detect. Raytheon's McKinney-headquartered Space and Airborne Systems has entered an R&D agreement to combine radio astronomy and radar techniques to solve that problem.
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Dallas Invents: 136 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 25
by | Mar 4, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's intraocular lens injector, Advanced Cooling Therapy's methods for core body temperature management, Curio's RFID disruption device, RealPage's system for refining cognitive insights, The Secant Group's hyperthermia targeting for cancer therapy, The Snoring Center's uvula excision device, Abbott Laboratories' diagnostic analyzer, and Toyota's transportation support for users needing mobility assistance.
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Unicorns Can Happen Here. Why Dallas-Fort Worth is Fertile Ground for Tech Startups
Dallas-Fort Worth's strength in diverse industry hotspots such as fintech, AI, and life sciences make it a seedbed for billion-dollar players to emerge.
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Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in February
by | Mar 2, 2020
Take a look back on the stories that grabbed our readers' attention last month.
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Dialectic Therapeutics Plans to Further Cancer Drug Research Using $3M Seed Award

by | Feb 26, 2020
Using innovative new technologies and targeted therapies, the Dallas biotech startup aims to help patients with cancer, give them hope, and prolong their lives.
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Dallas Invents: 138 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 18
by | Feb 26, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: HS Labs' water detection assembly, Bank of America's blockchain-based unexpected data detection, Frito-Lay's potato cultivar, Toyota's vehicle seat assembly for physical exercise, ZixCorp's secure transmission system with upgraded encryption strength, and unassigned underwater wings for providing lift to boats.
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Bio-Rad Laboratories Acquires Fort Worth’s Exact Diagnostics
by | Feb 24, 2020
Quality check: Based at the UNT Health Science Center, Exact Diagnostics produces and sells samples of viruses that labs can use to test their own equipment.
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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 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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Will That Antidepressant Help? UT Southwestern Scientists Create AI Computer to Predict What Works
by | Feb 13, 2020
Up to two-thirds of depression patients do not respond to their first treatment. That's why UTSW researchers are working to eliminate antidepressant trial and error based on a patient’s brain activity.
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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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