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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 29

by | Nov 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's crowd location-based analytics for transactions, Bank of America's data transmission authentication and self-destruction, Evergaze's apparatus for improving, augmenting or enhancing vision, Futurewei Technologies' automatic identity detection, Imagine Communications' splicing media files, IBM's cognitive parking guidance, Lone Star IP Holdings' small smart weapon, and Oldcastle Building Envelope's demountable wall system.
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Paul Quinn College Students Participate in Interactive ‘Quinnite Build’ to Ease Digital Divide in Neighborhoods
by | Nov 4, 2019
Capital One mentors help college students develop real-world businesses to bring technology to underserved communities.
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Discovery: UTSW Teams Up on Cystic Fibrosis Breakthrough; TCU Prof’s Book Examines Birth Control’s Effects on Women
by | Nov 1, 2019
Also in this weekly roundup of research and development news, you’ll find out how $500,000 in grants is helping a UTA research team study bridges’ effects on stream ecology and safety during floods.
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Dallas Invents: 126 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 22
by | Oct 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: University of Washington's cough detecting methods and devices for detecting coughs, Advanced Micro Devices' temperature-aware task scheduling and proactive power management, Cyber adAPT's cyber threat attenuation using multi-source threat data analysism, DFB Soria's delivery of drug nanoparticles , Ecotomic Group's furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production, Raytheon Company's detection system for detecting changes to circuitry, Retina Foundation of the Southwest's two-layer ocular implant, and Accudata Technologies' system for providing additional information to called parties.
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Discovery: Agrilife Expansion Focuses on Food and Water, UTA Gets a $2.3M Grant for Composites

by | Oct 24, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out why an important computing society recognized a UNT associate dean for her scientific contributions.
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Dallas Invents: 143 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 15
by | Oct 23, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bell Helicopter Textron's anti-ice system for thermally fragile materials, Amazon Technologies' trust management in an electronic environment, Bank of America's synthesized voice authentication engine,K2M's expandable spinal implants, Lyft's apparatus for managing conference calls, Raytheon's LADAR data upsampling, UT, Texas AM System's 3D printing of regenerative bone healing scaffolds for rapid fracture healing, The Parking Genius' parking sensors capable of determining direction and speed of vehicle, and VPay's virtual payment card fraud detection.
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Discovery: UTSW Bird Research Finding How Human Communication Works; UT Dallas Uses $4M NSF Grant for Cybersecurity Training
by | Oct 18, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out how UTA is using water fleas to study infertility.
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STEM, STEAM, STREAM: “In Dallas, the Ingredients are Here.”
Dallas-Fort Worth has the pieces—educators, nonprofits, corporations, technology, and the will—to be known as a hub for innovation and technology, our panel agrees. But, to attract and prepare the next generation of world-class talent, we need action. "Hopefully, we're all beginning to push this boulder up the hill, together," Drexell Owusu says. Read the final installment of our series.
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Atos Launches Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Lab in Irving

by | Oct 15, 2019
The new Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence lab—the only one in North America—is Atos' 'fourth and final' lab in its global network. It joins AI labs in London, Paris, and Munich.
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Beyond Smart Cities: Dallas Ranks High in Global Cities’ AI Readiness Index
by | Oct 11, 2019
Dallas is third in the nation among large cities that rank for urban AI resilience and readiness in the rise of the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution,' according to The Oliver Wyman Forum.
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Discovery: UTD Research Finds a Cool Twist; UNT Prof Works to Improve Knee Surgery Outcomes
by | Oct 11, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news on how a consortium led by UT Arlington is developing ways to reduce unsafe uses of medications.
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STEM, STEAM, STREAM: ‘The World Doesn’t Work Without Technology Anymore, Nothing Does.’
STEM is cool, our experts agree. And it's important. The challenge is translating that to students. Part Two of our series explores the state of STEM, STEAM, and STREAM education in Dallas-Fort Worth and the actions we need to take.
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Toyota's patent granted for a Smart necklace for social awareness for people with impaired vision or on the autism spectrum.

Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 1

by | Oct 9, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's smart necklace for social awareness, Apple's adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity for wireless devices, Arch Holdings' method for media destruction using a kiosk, AT&T's system for grouping users to different speed tiers for wireless communication, Bank of America's electronic security keys for data security based on quantum particle states, Capital One's vehicle location system, SMU's method for privacy preserving disclosure of a shared, identity-linked secret, and Wells Fargo Bank's biometric electronic signature tokens.
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Reimagine Communities Summit: How Human-Centered Design and Digitalization Drive Innovation
by | Oct 8, 2019
Get our full recap of Capital One's fourth annual Reimagine Communities Summit, which provided a platform for conversations around development in the digital age.
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Lantern Pharma Teams Up with National Cancer Institute to Predict Drug Effectiveness on Tumors
by | Oct 7, 2019
This alum of Dallas startup accelerator Health Wildcatters is working with the National Cancer Institute's Developmental Therapeutics Branch on precision research and treatments.
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