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  • The brain-inspired design could lower the energy and compute costs behind AI training requirements, an increasingly urgent challenge for enterprises.

  • The federal ARPA-E award adds to the Dallas-based company’s momentum as it advances next-generation battery materials and builds out new power tech for AI data centers....

  • The investment strengthens UTA’s pipeline for high-demand engineering talent and supports research on AI-enabled safety systems for nuclear plants.

  • The pilot will test Last Energy’s 5-megawatt PWR-5 design at Texas A&M–RELLIS while the company advances a plan for 30 commercial microreactors in Haskell County nort...

  • Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 11 with a total of 128 patents granted.

Steve Miff, left, and Mirna Abyad Baloul, right [Courtesy photos]

How One Dallas-Fort Worth Healthcare Innovator Is Scaling ‘AI on Top of AI’

by | Apr 9, 2026
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation CEO Steve Miff shares approach to transparency in its prediction models.
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Patented: Badge Inc.’s Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Apr 8, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 10 with a total of 155 patents granted.
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Patented: Topgolf’s Golf Ball With Electrical Components—and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Apr 1, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 3 with a total of 102 patents granted.
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Calendar: Not-to-Miss Events for Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth
by | Mar 31, 2026
North Texas has plenty to see, hear, and watch. Here are our editors' picks. Plus, you'll find more selections to "save the date."
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A newly patented IBM technology authenticates access to a system by using "a simulated state of a digital twin" to derive a password — in one example, using a vehicle's operational data such as its odometer reading. Mansfield inventor Jian Wu is named on the patent. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12561425-B2, Fig. 4; Aleksei Cheremisinov/istockphoto; DI Studio]

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

by | Mar 25, 2026
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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The Last Word: Micron VP On Why Richardson Students Are ‘a Direct Part of Our Industry’s Future’
by | Mar 18, 2026
A $96,500 Micron Foundation grant is bringing robotics, coding and AI-ready tools to Richardson ISD elementary classrooms.
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Patented: Rapid Generation of Custom-Fit Garment Patterns From 3D Body Scans and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Mar 18, 2026
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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French Researcher Joining UTSW Is Among Recipients of Up to $25M Cancer Grand Challenges Award
by | Mar 11, 2026
The Cancer Grand Challenges initiative, co-founded in 2020 by the National Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK, provides funding over approximately five years to interdisciplinary teams addressing some of the most complex research questions surrounding cancer.
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