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Patented: IBM’s Simulated State of a Digital Twin as Password and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 24 with a total of 142 patents granted.
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Patented: Rapid Generation of Custom-Fit Garment Patterns From 3D Body Scans and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 17 with a total of 147 patents granted.
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Patented: Toyota’s Vehicle Heart Rate Detection Device and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 10 with a total of 180 patents granted.
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North Texas’ Topaz Labs Teams With NVIDIA to Cut the Cloud Out of Pro-Grade AI Image and Video Processing
by | Mar 5, 2026
Designed as foundational technology, the Emmy-winning company's new NeuroStream slashes computing demands by up to 95%, bringing large models to everyday desktops and Macs.
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Patented: Rivian’s Simultaneous Charging and Power Export, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 3 with a total of 103 patents granted.
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Houston’s Bot Auto Partners With Ryan on ‘Humanless’ Freight Runs Between Dallas and Houston
by | Feb 25, 2026
Founded in 2023 by the co-founder and former CTO of TuSimple, Bot Auto will soon be adding to a growing array of "trucker-out" 18-wheeler operations flowing in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth. Its competitors operating in North Texas include Aurora, Gatik, Torc Robotics, Kodiak Robotics, Waabi, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions.
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The Last Word: MagnifyAI Founder on His Company’s Evolution from ‘Execution Partner to Capital Allocator’
by | Feb 25, 2026
Andrew Sanderson launched the firms' venture arm today pairing capital with know-how for startups ready to scale.
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The Last Word: LFG Ventures’ Managing Partner on Tracking ‘Where Frontier Tech Is Really Moving’

by | Feb 24, 2026
The Dallas firm's weekly newsletter The Markup delivers insights on private markets and pre-IPO deals.
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Dallas-Based WATTER Named a BloombergNEF Pioneers Finalist
by | Feb 24, 2026
WATTER—a startup whose high-tech water heaters use wasted heat from compute devices to heat water in homes and businesses, while reducing demand on the grid—is one of 29 Pioneers finalists selected in this year's competition. Other finalists include Austin-based BASE Power, which expanded to Dallas last summer.
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Mark Cuban to Headline Convergence AI Dallas 2026
by | Feb 19, 2026
Leaders from Google, Palantir, Khan Academy, AECOM, and Fujitsu Intelligence join the March 30–31 Irving Convention Center lineup focused on enterprise AI.
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Texas A&M Launches New Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at the ‘Geographic Center’ of the Texas Triangle
by | Feb 19, 2026
The new center readies students for venture creation and business acquisition in an AI-driven economy. Texas A&M’s Mays Business School has tapped startup founder and former Merlyn for Education CEO Levi Belnap as executive director, building on last year's appointment of “the nation’s first dean of AI."
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Patented: Verily Life Sciences’ Intraocular Laser Projection System and Other North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 20 with a total of 104 patents granted.
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The Last Word: Inbenta CEO Melissa Solis on AI as the Great Equalizer
by | Feb 17, 2026
Inbenta CEO Melissa Solis—who built North Texas-based GIACT Systems from $300 to a $610M exit—talks AI deployment failures, customer culture, and who gets a seat at the table on the Women Disrupting Tech Podcast.
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Dallas Cybersecurity Startup Cydelphi Emerges from Stealth with $3M Seed Funding
by | Feb 12, 2026
In addition to the funding, led by Boston's Glasswing Ventures, Cydelphi debuted its patent-pending DFIR platform, which is custom-built to enable organizations to recover from catastrophic breaches "in days rather than months."
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$11B San Francisco Legal AI Startup Harvey To Open Dallas Office
by | Feb 12, 2026
Four years after launching, Harvey's meteoric growth has brought it to what the startup calls "one of the largest and most influential legal markets in the world." Named after Harvey Specter, a character on "Suits," the company has already been working with AT&T and leading law firms across Texas—along with other clients in more than 60 countries worldwide.
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