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Follow the Money: OncoNano Series A Funding Reaches $35.4M; ECi Acquires UK Software Reseller

by | Jul 18, 2019
You’ll find news about more than $6.4B in deals. Trive Capital, Cresco Capital Partners, Prologis, WatchGuard, Rent-A-Center, Comstock Resources, Covey Park Energy, Interstate Restoration, and Temperature Control Systems also are included in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas.
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Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
UTA Fires Up Heat Shield Research with New Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
by | Jul 17, 2019
The wind tunnel will be used for research funded by $1.5 million in grants from the Office of Naval Research. Speed creates heat-producing friction, and the funding will go toward studying shields to protect hypersonic vehicles.
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of July 9
by | Jul 17, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 15 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's autonomous vehicle routing based on chaos assessment, FutureWei Technologies' predictive routing for mobility, Paragon Furniture's modular desk systems, Phazr's multifaceted radio base station, Red River Tea Co.'s still beverage brewing, John Almeida's unassigned virus-immune computer system, Wynright's perception-based robotic manipulation for an automated truck unloader, and ZixCorp Systems' secure electronic mail system
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Meet the Innovators: Xiaolin Lu, R&D Manager of Texas Instruments
The majority of Lu's career has been at TI. Now, she spends her time at Kilby Labs—which touches every area of TI—to turn projects into products.
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Dallas Invents: 143 Patents Granted for Week of July 2

by | Jul 10, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Honda Motor Cos. method of identifying a user of a charging station, Ilumi Solutions wireless control device,  Match Group's display screen with a graphical user interface of an electronic device,   Taylor Made's golf club with unique mass properties,  The Big O's personal item management apparatus,  Texas A&M's new variety of Zoysiagrass, DALZ 0102.
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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of June 25
by | Jul 3, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Barferno's real-time patron-activity information system, CPG Technologies' wired and wireless power distribution coexistence, Apple Inc.'s user equipment location on a wireless transmission system, Facebook's location-based content aggregation and distribution, PayPal's management based on user tolerance for waiting in line, and Sensogram Technologies' non-invasive wearable blood pressure monitoring system.
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A Baker’s Dozen: Dallas Innovates’ Most Popular Stories So Far This Year
by | Jul 2, 2019
We're halfway through 2019. Let's take a look back on the stories that have grabbed our readers' attention the most.
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Medicine on Wheels: DPC Healthcare Launches Texas’ First Primary Care Mobile Clinic
by | Jul 2, 2019
DPC Healthcare—the first membership-based, direct primary care practice in Dallas-Fort Worth—aims to improve the health and wellness of the workforce by bringing the clinic to you.
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near Southside

Discovery: UTA Team Leads Fort Worth Medical Innovation District Planning, UNT Economist Tapped as Fellow

by | Jun 28, 2019
In this roundup of research and development in North Texas, you'll also read about a prestigious summer research program sending a UT Dallas senior 'across the pond.'
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Patents
Dallas Invents: 101 Patents Granted for Week of June 18
by | Jun 26, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's access control using device location tracking and blockchain, Dolby Laboratories' control of light spreading with blurring element in projector systems, FedEx's method for removing customer personal information from an electronic device, Halliburton's subterranean monitoring using enhanced video, SoftLayer's portable and flexible deployment of servers, and The Parking Genius' sensors using magnetic signature recognition.
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‘The Future of Police Training’: SURVIVR Uses Virtual Reality to Prep Officers for the Real World
by | Jun 25, 2019
Founded by a recent UTD grad, VR training startup SURVIVR is working to change how law enforcement trains its officers, while cutting costs and saving lives along the way.
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DocSynk funding AI

Discovery: UTA Prof Pursues Novel ALS Research, Legislature Gives UNT $10M for New Manufacturing Tech Center

by | Jun 21, 2019
You'll also find out about two UT Dallas undergraduates who have received prestigious Goldwater Scholarships in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 163 Patents Granted for Week of June 11
by | Jun 19, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: IBM's management of cookie data, AMI Investments' remote monitoring of water distribution systems, Bank of America's data security and risk ranking tool, Daltile's glazed porcelain roof tile, Ilumi's LED lighting device, The Nielsen Company's apparatus to monitor mobile internet activity, and Toyota's personalized active safety systems.
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The Seeker: Meet the ‘World’s First Robotic Quarterback’
by | Jun 18, 2019
A new Dallas-based startup, Monarc, has created a patented football robot that uses wearable technology and IoT to throw perfect passes, every time. Here's how it works.
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