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Introducing Crypto Fitness Gamification: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Tony G. from Lympo celebrate the U.S launch of Lympo, the nation's first blockchain fitness app, in partnership with the Dallas Mavericks, at the Dallas Mavericks' Lympo Practice Facility in Dallas, Texas on Friday, Nov. 16. [Photo: Peter Larsen]

ICYMI: Mavs x Lympo Blockchain Fitness App; Nokia, AT&T, Jaunt Augment Reality; Roger Wilco Announces ICO

by | Nov 17, 2018
From retail disruptors (Neighborhood Goods, Sam's Club, The Container Store) to kudos (UTD, The Trade Group, Deloitte's Technology Fast 500) to the weekly Top 10 (Mary Kay's 'R3'), here's your briefing on ideas and innovation in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 130 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 6
by | Nov 14, 2018
Patents were granted for USAA's water detection assembly, Texas Instruments' brownout response, Sensogram's wearable respiration rate monitoring system, Varidesk's design patent, and YSEOP's techniques for automatic generation of natural language text.
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ICYMI: Microsoft & Walmart Team on Dallas Cloud Factory, Health Wildcatters Pitch Day, StackPath Signs Cybersecurity Tech Accord
by | Nov 10, 2018
From business bytes (Mary Kay, Nexeon MedSystems, Children's Health) to impact (Paige Chenault is named Women of the World 'Mother of Invention') to the weekly Top 10 (JPMorgan Chase’s ‘Super Day’), here's your briefing on ideas and innovation in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 30
by | Nov 7, 2018
Patents were granted for Verizon's techniques for providing content recommendations, Toyota’s mist-generating apparatus, Kodiak Network’s VoIP denial-of-service protection mechanisms, and an unassigned wildfire alert system.
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Figures 37 and 38 from SanDisk's patent No. 10,110,805 show various embodiments of its head-mountable camera devices. [DI Composite. Source Images: USPTO]

Dallas Invents: 120 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 23

by | Oct 31, 2018
Patents were granted for SanDisk's head-mountable camera system, Intuit's script generation based on user actions, Verizon's targeted advertising, Gemmy's projection kaleidoscope, and Reata's methods to treat obesity.
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The Groove Jones team worked with the Dallas Mavericks CMO, Jerome Elenez on the development for the season opener.  The Mavs are the first team to “do something this big” with augmented reality, Elenez said in a Groove Jones blog post.
ICYMI: What’s New in Augmented Reality, Social Impact Making Headlines, Women in Tech, and What We’re Reading
by | Oct 27, 2018
From awards and accolades (Locavore, Health Wildcatters) to our weekly Top 10 (a tour of Facebook's Fort Worth data center) to our favorite read (ShangriLlama), here's your briefing on innovation, ideas, and impact in North Texas.
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Dallas flip-flop maker Hari Mari has a new patent for footwear with an enhanced toe post. [DI composite. Illustration source: USPTO.]
Dallas Invents: 155 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 16
by | Oct 24, 2018
Patents were granted for Verizon's auto suggestion in search, Hari Mari's footwear, Toyota's traffic signal indicator, Neu Robitics' drone, and Moneygram's emergency money transfer.
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ICYMI: Dallas VC Funding Report, Delivery Bots Are Coming, Infrastructure Week & What We’re Reading
by | Oct 20, 2018
From mobility mavens (YourDrive, Alto, Lyft) to our weekly Top 10 (data center markets), here's your briefing on the innovation, ideas, and impact driving business and culture in North Texas.
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ICYMI: AT&T Starts Streaming, Mavs Hire Breaks New Ground, TREC Gets $900K, and DFW Tops Rankings

by | Oct 13, 2018
From startups making headlines (Hypergiant) to our weekly Top 10 (The Green Future), here's your briefing on the innovation, ideas, and impact driving business and culture in North Texas.
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Follow the Money: Hail Merry Gets $1.08M, PostItPlayit Raises $1.59M, Celanese to Buy Polymer Maker
by | Oct 11, 2018
You'll also find news from AT&T, GridLiance High Plains and Kainos Capital. Here are notable funding and acquisition deals with North Texas ties.
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Dallas Invents: 92 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 2
by | Oct 10, 2018
Patents were granted for Apple's voltage regulator; Dell's distributed authorization; ROKA Sports' swimwear design & construction, iHeartMedia's listener survey tool; Shavelogic's razor tray; and more.
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A smart notification system can include a vehicle, a mobile communication device and a wearable processing device, according to a new patent granted to Toyota. An illustration from Toyota's patent No. 10,081,347 depicts a wearable processing device. [Fig. 3 via USPTO]
Dallas Invents: 69 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 25
by | Oct 3, 2018
Patents granted include FedEx's method to service an electronic device, Toyota's smart notification systems for wearable devices, Bank of America's RFID activation, and McAfee's detection of malicious thread suspension.
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A diagram from Capital One’s Patent No.10078921 shows an overview of an example implementation of the "placement of augmented reality objects using a bounding shape." [Source: Fig. 1A, Patent 10078921, USPTO]

Dallas Invents: 54 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 18

by | Sep 26, 2018
Patents granted include Capital One's placement of augmented reality objects using a bounding shape, Experian's method for providing an aggregation tool, Facebook's location-based content aggregation and distribution systems, Toyota's ray tracing for hidden obstacle detection, and Bell's storage modes for tiltrotor aircraft
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Design With a Big ‘D’: Meet 6 UX/UI Experts Delivering Solutions
by | Sep 24, 2018
The Dallas-Fort Worth region has no shortage of thought leaders who are helping create the solutions for some of today’s most popular products. From Ben Judy at 7-Eleven to Ron Dagdag at Thyssenkrupp Elevator, here are a few you need to know.
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AT&T Teams With Airstream to Launch ‘Smart’ RV
by | Sep 19, 2018
Connected camping: The iconic Airstream Silver Bullet gets smart, thanks to a new deal with AT&T.
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An illustration from Toyota's patent No. 10,074,281 for a method an apparatus for determining lane identification in a roadway. [Illustration via USPTO]
Dallas Invents: 70 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 11
Patents granted include Toyota's method and apparatus for determining lane identification in a roadway, Baylor Research Institute's fatty acid treatment for cardiac patients, and Apple's computer internal architecture.
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