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A Skydio X10 drone takes flight. The Dallas Police Department is using the drones for its Drone as First Responder program, which launched on May 20. [Photo: Skydio]
The Last Word: On Dallas’ New Drone as First Responder Program
by David Seeley | May 27, 2026
Last week, the Dallas Police Department launched its new Drone as First Responder program with eight remotely piloted drones based at Dallas Fire-Rescue stations across the city. Operated out of the DPD's Fusion/Real Time Crime Center, the Skydio X10 drones from San Mateo, California-based Skydio are designed to respond to calls for service in a two-mile radius from their base stations.
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Electric mobility is about more than battery range now. As EVs become part of everyday life, people want the experience to feel simple and reassuring, whether they are finding a charger, checking their vehicle status, making a payment, or getting help when they need it....
White Castle—a 105-year-old Ohio-based chain known for selling burgers “by the sack”—has announced plans to open its first-ever Texas location at Grandscape in The Colony.
On June 2, White Castle will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the location at 4520 Destination Drive— complete with spatula shovels and a ceremonial “sprinkling of the onions” on the future grill site....
“Even during our training, our pilots were able to clear three holding calls in an hour with one drone.”
Daniel Comeaux
Dallas Police Chief
.…on the city’s recently launched Drone as First Responder Program....
Beyond JPMorgan Chase, other organizations with notable patents granted this week include:
- 7-Eleven’s space search reduction in identifying items from images via item height
- Bank of America’s system for generating on-demand single-use biometric authentication credentials
- BMIC’s roofing materials with asphalt shingle waste
- Frito-Lay’s vegetable-containing snack product
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- KPMG’s automated system and method for analyzing and auditing financial data
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- McAfee’s methods and apparatus for malware classification through convolutional neural networks using raw bytes
- McKesson’s supply chain analytics using visualizations and standardization constructs
- Monolithic 3D’s 3D semiconductor device and structure with metal layers and a power delivery path
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- Schneider Electric Buildings Americas’ distributed people counting system and methods
- TRETE’s secure identifier integration
- USAA’s flight path optimization for aerial-based damage assessment
- USC’s fasting mimicking diet
- Verizon’s automated cleaning of mobile user devices
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