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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 4WEB's implants having bone growth promoting agents contained within biodegradable materials
- Bear Robotics' method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a robot to load and unload a target object
- CVS Pharmacy's intelligent medication monitoring
- Hemanext's anaerobic blood storage containers
- JPMorgan Chase Bank's automated detection, elimination, and prevention of toxic combinations for personal information data
- Lennox Industries' peak demand response operation of HVAC systems
- Match Group's system and method for dynamically generating suggestions to facilitate conversations between remote users
- Seismic Software's document portion identification in a recorded video
- Texas Instruments' lookup table for non-linear systems
- Textron Innovations' heliport docking system
- Toyota's systems and methods for obstacle detection using a neural network model, depth maps, and segmentation maps
Patented: Game Changer Patch Co.’s Transdermal Patches for Hangover Minimization and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 26, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 21 with a total of 138 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 22, 2025
When thousands of soccer fans arrive in North Texas for the 2026 FIFA World Cup they may be looking to the sky as a way to get around Arlington and the rest of DFW via flying taxis....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 20, 2025
According to research by UTA's Philip Baiden, Americans aged 65 and older who experienced their parents divorcing as children were more likely to suffer a stroke compared to their peers—one in nine as compared to one in 15 for those whose parents did not divorce.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 14 with a total of 154 patents granted.
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UTD doctoral student Matthew Bergschneider and researchers found why lithium nickel oxide batteries fail and developed a potential fix for the promising battery material. [Photo: UT Dallas]
UT Dallas Researchers Solve Battery Puzzle That Could Extend Phone Life and EV Range
by Lance Murray | Feb 18, 2025
Lithium nickel oxide, a promising material for next-gen, longer-lasting batteries, keeps failing during charging. Now a UTD team says it's found a fix to make it viable for commercial use. The researchers plan to manufacture test batteries in their robotics lab before seeking industry partners to take them to market.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 17, 2025
Southern Methodist University biology researchers are uncovering how brain, heart, and lung connections may hold the key to preventing sudden death in epilepsy—while making a breakthrough discovery linking a missing brain protein to fatal seizures.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 15, 2025
Often cities can have a gap between healthcare opportunities and its unhoused population.
In Fort Worth a group of medical students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is helping to bridge that gap via the Street Medicine Student Coalition....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 14, 2025
A clinical trial led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas could help bring an experimental treatment for depression closer to approval from the U.S....
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 1A Smart Start's calculating a recidivism probability score for compliance-based ignition interlock device removal
- Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration with refillable medication dispensing devices
- Capital One's real-time dynamic conversational responses during conversational interactions using machine learning models
- Forcepoint Federal's security analytics system for performing a risk analysis operation taking into account social behavior peer grouping
- Lockheed Martin's plasma engine with leptonic energy source
- o9 Solutions' protocol buffer trie packing and streaming updates
- OxeFit's motorized pilates reformer
- Sabre's computer program product for reservations, inventory control, shopping, and booking with attribute-based pricing
- Verily Life Sciences' scene-adaptive image quality in surgical video
- Verizon's predictive modeling of energy consumption in a cellular network
Patented: American Airlines’ Virtual Measurement System for Baggage Management and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 7 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 12, 2025
Graduate online programs in education and nursing and bachelor’s online programs in business at Texas Woman’s University in Denton have been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as being among the nation’s best....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
What started as a ‘friendly conversation’ on the UNTHSC campus could lead to a breakthrough in treating glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness, affecting over 80 million people worldwide. With AI, the lab team can speed up the process of screening billions of virtual compounds to attack the problem.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
The University of Texas at Arlington’s reputation as a national leader in online education has received a tangible boost by earning major gains in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings. UTA’s College of Education’s online programs, for example, placed in the top 5% nationally.
UTA said its online master’s in education ranked 15th out of 313 institutions, and those programs tailored for military veterans and military-connected students jumped to No....
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AT&T's autonomous aerial vehicle projection zone selection
- Blue Yonder's price-demand elasticity as feature in machine learning model for demand forecasting
- BNSF Railway's multi-objective systems for optimally assigning train blocks at a railroad merchandise yard
- Gemini IP's universal core blockchain wallets for accelerated network additions
- Kepler GTL's systems for producing sustainable aviation fuel
- McKesson's methods for automated prescription preparation
- Meta Platforms' remote radio unit with reduced volume and increased thermal efficiency
- PrivacyChain's peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed data management system
- T-Mobile's machine learning monitoring of wireless network infrastructure application servers
- Toyota's knowledge transfer for early unsafe driving behavior recognition
- USAA's self-charging unmanned vehicle
- Verily Life Sciences' intraocular micro-display system with intelligent wireless power delivery
- Wells Fargo's systems for determining a next action based on entities and intents
Patented: USAA’s Detection Systems for Fake Voice Commands to Smart Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 5, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 31 with a total of 163 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
The strategy—which is used by companies to poach customers from competitors by offering targeted ads to consumers' mobile devices based on their physical location—may benefit advertisers more than their business clients, UT Dallas researchers contend.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 1, 2025
The study of data from past storms includes researchers from multiple universities as well as international partners from hurricane-prone regions including the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Costa Rica.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 30, 2025
The Dallas maternal-fetal medicine practice calls Samsung's Hera Z20—which uses advanced AI and other features to enhance diagnostic accuracy—a "pre-natal game changer for women's health."
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