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Patents granted include GXI Holdings, LLC’s easy-to-use lawnmower with larger blades.

Dallas Invents: 97 Patents Granted for Week of June 5

Patents granted include GXI Holdings, LLC’s easy-to-use lawnmower with larger blades; Amazon’s thermal managing system for computing devices; Hulu’s video selecting system via diversity and relevance; and Jack Ten Suited’s new electronic card game apparatus.
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IBMs patent No. 9984550
Dallas Invents: 91 Patents Granted for Week of May 29
Patents granted include IBM’s smart garment that can communicate to a receiver “at least one parameter” away; Bottle Rocket’s new interactive video viewing experience; Fossil’s design for a device that monitors activity; and Omnitrac’s advanced warning system for vehicles on the road.
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An illustration from Micro-Gaming Ventures’ patent No. 9978218 depicts a method and system for micro-betting. The wager(s) can be managed and controlled remote from electronically placing the micro-bet(s) during a round of micro-betting, according to the patent documents. [Via USPTO]
Dallas Invents: 79 Patents Granted for Week of May 22
Patents granted include Micro-Gaming Ventures’ system for micro-betting, Toyota’s device for traffic light detection, Syntilla Medical’s implantable head-mounted neurostimulation system for head pain, and IBM’s caller identity-based security.
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An illustration from Nuvectra Corporation’s patent No. 9974108 shows paired communication between an implanted medical device and an external control device. [via USPTO]
Dallas Invents: 85 Patents Granted for Week of May 15
Patents granted include Nuvectra Corporation’s paired communication between an implanted medical device and an external control device, Toyota’s method for making an object appear transparent, and NewVoiceMedia’s workflow triggering that uses real-time analytics for intelligent sales engagement.
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Humphreys & Partners Shows Its Uber Elevate Skyport Vision

by | May 11, 2018
In a series of architecture plans, renderings, and ideas, HPA offered its vision for the design of the UberAIR skyport platform that will be the launch and landing sites for the air taxi service.
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Toyota Patent No. 9958275, Illustration USPTO
Dallas Invents: 74 Patents Granted for Week of May 1
Patents granted include Toyota’s system for wearable smart device communications, Tesla Laboratories’ method for creation of unique identification for use in gathering survey data from a mobile device at a live event, and Match.com’s matching process system.
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A patent was granted to Joshua RD Technologies Interactive helmet system and method interactive helmet system and method for reducing brain injuries may provide a helmet and at least one inflatable air pouch. The at least one inflatable air pouch may remain in an active position and may pressurize or further inflate in response to an impact with a surface. Over a predetermined time period, the at least one inflatable air pouch may not depressurize and may instantly pressurize or further inflate. The at least one inflatable air pouch may have an air pouch pressure that increases to a higher pressure and may protect users from brain injury at high impact forces.
Dallas Invents: 79 Patents Granted for Week of April 24
Patents granted include Joshua RD Technologies’ interactive helmet system, ShopSavvy’s storage medium for payment of online purchases via a portable computing device, Baylor University’s nutraceutical with an oxygen-enabled composition and USAA’s home area recommender.
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Dallas Invents: 74 Patents Granted for Week of April 17
Patents granted include Apple's desktop consumer electronic device, IBM's cognitive geofencing, Mentalix's robotic document feeder, and McAfee's digital heritage notary.
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Dallas Invents: 73 Patents Granted for Week of April 3

Patents granted include Amazon's quality control for video encoders on mobile devices, Capital One's method for expedited large file processing, and The Nielsen Company's methods to recruit audience measurement panelists.
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Patents this week were granted to Fujitsu, Nike, AT&T, Bell Helicopter, Frito-Lay, Cisco, SMU, and Endostim.
Dallas Invents: 82 Patents Granted for Week of March 27
by | Apr 4, 2018
Patents granted include Endostim’s laparoscopic lead implantation method, Halliburton’s degradable balls for use in subterranean applications, Varidesk’s adjustable desk platform, and New York Air Brake’s train speed profiling system.
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Bell, Boeing Expect Big Lift From Delivery Drones
by | Jan 26, 2018
The aviation industry giants appear to be all in on developing drones that can carry cargo for many miles.
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Breaking the Mold: North Texas Companies to Keep On Your Innovation Radar
by | Jan 10, 2018
More than a dozen companies operate innovation labs, test centers, or teams in North Texas — add these to your watch list.
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Peterbilt Partners in Developing Driverless Truck Technology

by | Jul 26, 2017
Technology drives the truck on open highways, but a human driver takes over in city traffic.
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Smart Cities Summit: The World as We Will Come to Know it
by | May 17, 2017
Experts at the summit made their predictions for what is coming by 2025 at the Visionaries Roundtable.
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Bell FCX-001 Concept Takes a Whirl at the Future
by | Mar 9, 2017
The Bell FCX-001 — with virtual reality controls for the pilot — is a futuristic look at what helicopter aircraft could look like.
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