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Left: A sensor constantly monitors a patient's skin for hydration. Right: Engineering students at the R&D Expo at UNT [Photos: Chloe Nguyen/UNT]

From Trash Bots to Skin Sensors: UNT Engineering Students Build for Real-World Impact

by | Jun 6, 2025
At the University of North Texas' annual Research and Design Expo, students tackled challenges in projects from public parks to public health—with innovations in biomedical tech, infrastructure, and sustainability.
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Dallas’ Signify Bio Launches With Oversubscribed $15M Financing, Partnership With UT Southwestern
by | Jun 5, 2025
Co-founded by Chief Scientific Advisor Daniel J. Siegwart of UT Southwestern and CEO RA Session II, Signify Bio said it harnesses the human body for the production of in situ protein therapeutics. The round was led by Actium Group with participation from the Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund, Danaher Ventures LLC, Eli Lilly and Company, and BrightEdge, the American Cancer Society's VC arm.
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Tarleton State’s New Rural Research Hub Earns TEXO Design Honor
by | Jun 5, 2025
Tarleton’s Stephenville facility—shared with Texas A&M AgriLife—aims to boost rural research, innovation, and small business. Not yet a year old, it’s earning statewide recognition.
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UTD Team’s Discovery Could Boost Solid-State Battery Performance in EVs, Phones, Military Drones
by | Jun 4, 2025
The UT Dallas team found that mixing small particles between two solid electrolytes can generate an effect called a “space charge layer"—an accumulation of electric charge at the interface between the two materials, making it easier for ions to move across the interface.
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June Young Park, assistant professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington [Photos: UTA]

UTA’s New Wheelchair-Mounted Smart Tech Gathers Real-World Data to Guide Inclusive Building Design

by | Jun 3, 2025
Backed by a National Science Foundation grant, the project’s key innovation is WHEELCOM—a device that captures wheelchair movement data to help engineers design smarter, more inclusive buildings.
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Illustration of the human gastrointestinal tract, highlighting the stomach and intestines — representing AnX Robotica’s FDA-cleared MotiliCap and MotiliScan system for non-invasive GI motility monitoring.
Plano’s AnX Robotica Wins FDA Clearance for Next-Gen GI Motility System, Aims to Fill the SmartPill ‘Void’
by | May 29, 2025
The MotiliCap capsule system offers a non-invasive, high-tech way to assess how the gastrointestinal tract is functioning — giving clinicians advanced insights into digestive health and movement.
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Irving’s Caris Life Sciences Files for IPO, Backed by AI-Driven Precision Oncology Platform
by | May 28, 2025
With $1.86 billion raised since 2018 and recent product launches, the North Texas life science company founded in 2008 is preparing for a public debut on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, following a $168 million growth capital round in April.
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T-Mobile USA has received a newly granted patent for "Autonomous Delivery to a Dynamic Location," invented by Prosper-based Sathyaraj Kolandasamy. The patent describes a system that enables an autonomous vehicle to update its delivery destination in real time by tracking the changing location of a user's wireless device—allowing items to be delivered even as the recipient moves. [Source image: USPTO Patent #12282888, Fig. 1; background by DI Studio]
Patented: T-Mobile’s Autonomous Delivery to Dynamic Locations and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | May 28, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 22 with a total of 110 patents granted.
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The same concept behind dental implants is helping amputees walk again. UT Southwestern surgeons used titanium implants to anchor Scott Bryson’s prosthetic limb.

This UT Southwestern Surgery Gave a North Texas Amputee a New Way to Walk—And a Promise to Keep

by | May 25, 2025
The Dallas-based medical center is one of just two in Texas offering osseointegration, a revolutionary implant technique that gives amputees better control, comfort—and for 50-year-old Scott Bryson, the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle.
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A newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" has been assigned to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Southern Methodist University, the patent outlines a system that enables distributed energy resources to be traded peer-to-peer across a power network
Patented: UT System, SMU Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | May 21, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 15 with a total of 84 patents granted.
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Patented: Apple’s Dynamic Network Hardware Activation System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | May 14, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 8 with a total of 132 patents granted.
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A slide showing Tremedics' award-winning technology for treating narrowed aortas in children (left). Their special dissolving stent (right) opens blocked blood vessels and then disappears as the child grows, eliminating the need for repeated surgeries and potentially helping thousands of the 40,000 U.S. babies born with heart defects annually. [Image source: Tremedics]

A slide showing Tremedics' award-winning technology for treating aortic narrowing in children (left). The company's special dissolving stent (right) aims to open restricted blood vessels and then disappear as the child grows, eliminating the need for repeated surgeries and potentially helping thousands of the 40,000 U.S. babies born with heart defects annually. [Image source: Tremedics]

Fort Worth’s Tremedics Wins $25K Healthcare Award at MassChallenge RESOLVE ’25 in Boston

by | May 12, 2025
Tre Welch, Tremedics Medical Devices Inc., Leon Jacobson, Ted Price, Nerveli Inc., Sarah Iselin, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, TechFW, MassChallenge, ClearLeaf, Feathery, Algas Organics, Coastal Protection Solutions
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Plano-based inventor Swaminathan Balasubramanian has received a newly granted patent for an "Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot." The patent describes a robot with a non-inverted pendulum body and articulated leg system designed to move like a humanoid, carry heavy loads, and minimize joint strain using a self-compensating mass structure. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12263899, left to right: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 4; DI Studio background]
Patented: ‘Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | May 7, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 1 with a total of 111 patents granted.
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Twin Chemistry Students Win First Prize at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
by | May 6, 2025
Ikeda and Orikeda Trashi took home $12,000 in the Big Idea student competition for Biodelivera, a platform that delivers cancer therapy directly to tumors. In the alumni track, the top prize went to Brice Sokolowski for his sweat-evaporating Vaucluse Backpack Ventilation Gear.
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UT Arlington Reports $59M National Economic Impact From Research Activity
by | May 5, 2025
University of Texas at Arlington reported its projects contributed $59 million to the national economy last year, an increase of 39% from 2023, according to a new report from the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS).
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