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Finalists Announced for the 2019 Tech Titans Awards
by Lance Murray | Jul 9, 2019
The Tech Titans Awards recognize the elite in North Texas technology and highlight the innovators, adopters, and executors impacting the technology industry for the greater good.
![From left: Roger Taylor, manager of probation services for the Dallas County Juvenile Services Department; Byron Sanders, Big Thought President and CEO; U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, (D)-Dallas; and Ty Bledsoe, assistant vice president for external affairs at AT&T; Erin Offord, senior director of programs at Big Thought. [Photo: Rachel Walters]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/15-2Walters_BigThought-34BigThought_ATT-CreativeSolution-970-360x203.jpg)
by Lance Murray |
Jul 3, 2019
Creative Solutions works with young people who come to the nonprofit through the Dallas County juvenile system with the aim of bettering their lives and the community. The nonprofit has posted a new position—Opportunity Advisor—someone who will be a part of the young people’s future so they can “live their best, truest, most authentic life.”
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by Alex Edwards |
Jun 11, 2019
The newly announced collaboration intends to boost Uber’s plans to get a commercial rideshare service in the sky by 2023.
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by Lance Murray |
May 30, 2019
You'll also find news about AT&T, Mark Cuban, Group Island Spirit, CareView Communications, CG Environmental, RS2 Ventures, Vemuri Investment Partners, DGSE Cos. Inc., and ORIX Capital Partners in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas.
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North Texas Businesses Embrace Design Thinking To Tackle Their Challenges
by Dave Moore | May 15, 2019
Leaders from AT&T, BBVA Compass, Frito-Lay, Imaginuity, rewardStyle, and Toyota North America gathered at the Dallas Regional Chamber to discuss how they’re applying design thinking to advance their companies’ missions.
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by Quincy Preston |
May 14, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's dynamic employee security risk scoring, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Freeflight Acquisitions' autonomous anonymity system, IBM's video sentiment analysis tool for video messaging,Peloton Therapeutics' methods of treating pulmonary arterial hypertension, Siemens Healthcare's image-based tumor phenotyping with machine learning from synthetic data, and STMicroelectronics' zero standby power for powerline communication devices
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by Quincy Preston |
May 8, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Nvidia's sound-activated control system, Shavelogic's pivoting razors, YSEOP's techniques for automatic generation of natural language text, Shooting Simulator's method for marksmanship training, Wells Fargo's biometric electronic signature tokens, Advatect Diagnostics' compositions for detecting fungi and mycotoxins, Bell's avionics system for using a smartphone to input-output flight data, CareView Communications' system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Moneygram's methods for providing bail and bond services via a money transfer network, and HoboLoco's foot-operated video game and virtual reality controller.
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by Quincy Preston |
May 1, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Hammond Development's system for enabling a communication device to remotely execute an application, Amazon's technology for job processing using a public service network, University of Arkansas' new white wine grape plant named "Opportunity," Textron Innovations' takeoff/landing touchdown protection management system, Tuesday Morning's cookware lid with basting projections, Olaeris' battery status and failure detector, 3i AVI's computerized exchange network, and an unassigned patent for hair-cutting techniques for an automated hair-cutting system.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of April 9
by Quincy Preston | Apr 17, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros.
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by Quincy Preston |
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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by Quincy Preston |
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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by Lauren Hawkins |
Mar 29, 2019
HBO is partnering with AT&T and AR startup Magic Leap to celebrate the TV show's final season—and let fans attempt to take on a White Walker—through immersive technology.
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Dallas Invents: 97 Patents Granted for Week of March 12
by Quincy Preston | Mar 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Futurewei Technologies' foldable mobile device
• IBM's cognitive geofencing
• Lockheed Martin's aircraft laser detector
• Uniloc's pedestrian traffic monitoring and analysis
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![Platooning trucks create “road trains” where two or more trucks follow each other closely. Paccar’s platooning light fence system may communicate to passenger vehicles that trucks are traveling as a team to discourage cut-ins or cut-offs. [Illustration: Fig. 1, Patent No. 10220768 via USPTO. Background: Dallas Innovates.]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Patent-No.-10220768-via-USPTODI_background-360x203.png)
by Quincy Preston |
Mar 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Toyota's vehicle bumper damage indication
• Bell's aircraft with manned and unmanned flight modes
• University of Texas' methods for light-dependent gene regulation
• Conduent Business Services' system for optimizing passenger pick up
• Amazon's system for impairment issues of distributed hosts
• Paccar's platooning light fence system for trucks
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Avaya's method for securing account access by verifying account with email provider
• Asphalt Sciences' method of dissolving tire rubber
• Bell's aircraft with autonomous and remote flight control capabilities
• IBM's intelligent driving recommendation system
• Toyota's systems for locally aligning map data
• Verizon's wireless infrastructure with distributed fiber networks
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Armor Defense's system to detect and extract malicious instructions on a virtual machine
• American Airline's departure sequencing system that includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer
• IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems of a computer system
• SanDisk Technologies' flash card end of life prediction based on memory wear
• an unassigned patent for a pull tab simulating a cannabis leaf cutout
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