Invention

Fatal Yeast: Carrollton Startup MycoDART Steps Up to Fight Infections in Hospitalized Patients

by | Apr 30, 2019
MycoDART, which was named one of Health Wildcatter's six startup healthcare accelerators, has a new test that may have cracked the code on Candida auris, a type of yeast that can cause severe sickness in hospitalized patients.
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Next-Gen Electric Motor Maker Linear Labs Powers Up Mobility with Global Partnership
by | Apr 29, 2019
Fort Worth-based Linear Labs has partnered with Abtery, a Nordic startup that aims to "disturb conventional transportation" in fields from marine solutions to electric airplanes.
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Discovery: UTSW Leads Charge Against Resistant Pathogens; UTA Students Design Training Aid for Wheelchair Athletes
by | Apr 26, 2019
You’ll also find out how the names of two University of North Texas students will forever be linked with their discovery of a chemical bond in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Dallas Animal Services’ App Rakes in $200K Investment at Innovation Showdown
by | Apr 25, 2019
Once the potentially life-saving been refined, DAS plans to share it with shelters nationwide to take a bite out of the number of animals euthanized each year.
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Dallas Invents: 115 Patents Granted for Week of April 16

by | Apr 24, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's augmented reality visual Wi-Fi signal, Bank of America's autonomous software containers, Genband's method for blocking notification messages during screen sharing, Linear Labs' brushless electric motor/generator, Sabre's tokenized data security, Phazr's window-installed wireless communications device, Conduent's method for video-based detection of drive-offs and walk-offs
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Discovery: UTA Prof Gets $300K to Study Mycobacteria; UTSW Team Studies Liver Cancer Treatment
by | Apr 18, 2019
You’ll also find out about a Southern Methodist University grad student who is one of the recipients of the Naitonal Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowhip Program in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Project Pachinko: Van’s Kitchen Invests Millions in Tech to Perfect Egg Rolls
by | Apr 17, 2019
This Dallas-based manufacturing company hopes to improve its productivity from the inside out.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of April 9
by | Apr 17, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. 
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‘Math Will No Longer Protect Your Data’: VaultChain Wants to Make Data Impossible for Hackers to Reassemble

by | Apr 11, 2019
Encryption that would normally take millions of years to crack could be done in seconds with a quantum computer, according to Doug Peckover. His solution is a “quantum-computer safe” technology that secures data.
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of April 2
by | Apr 10, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Velos Media's device for decoding a video bitstream; Apple's cylindrical compact computing system; State Farm's detection of anomalous computer behavior; Texas Instruments' estimation of time to collision in a computer vision system; USAA's monitoring systems and methods for personal safety; Toyota's smart necklace with stereo vision and onboard processing; and Watchguard's system for peer-to-peer operation of multiple recording devices
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Discovery: UNT Prof Joins Drone Safety Research Effort; UTA Studies Cardiovascular Disease-Depression Link
by | Apr 5, 2019
You’ll also find out about how a research project at Children’s Medical Center’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern is studying the effects of somatic mutations in healthy cells in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Emerging Tech: Meet the Women Driving DARQ Power in Dallas
by | Apr 4, 2019
Hear from the women leading innovation in distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, and extended reality (VR/AR), and quantum computing in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of March 26

by | Apr 3, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Google's proximity payment system environment response; Omnitrac's management of movable objects; Raytheon's methods for acquiring, launching, and guiding missiles to multiple targets; Samsung's techniques for millimeter-wave mobile communication; Slocum Geophysics' airborne geophysical exploration;; and more.
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Discovery: Neuro Rehab VR Teams Up With Schools for Robotic Glove; UTD Explores Roots of Chronic Pain
by | Mar 29, 2019
You'll also find out about Caris Life Sciences' data that shows a novel pathway to treating Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 87 Patents Granted for Week of March 19
by | Mar 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Capital One's asset tracking systems US Concrete's concrete with a reduced surface drying time Toyota's integrated truck bed washing system MoneyGram's promotion generation engine for a money transfer system McAfee's system for calculating an object's trust level Dr Pepper/Seven Up's sweet taste improving compositions
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Special Edition:
North Texas Innovators Look Back on #SXSW2019
by | Mar 23, 2019
In this week's rundown on ideas and innovation in North Texas, we caught up with local leaders to recap their experience at this year's SXSW.
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