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Ameriflight has received FAA approval to operate a nationwide drone delivery service using Matternet M2 drones.[Photo: Business Wire]
Ameriflight Makes Aviation History With FAA Approval for Large-Scale Drone Delivery Service in the U.S.
by David Seeley | May 31, 2023
Dallas-based Ameriflight plans to operate the Matternet M2 drone for commercial delivery—focusing on health care and e-commerce deliveries to customers in dense urban and suburban environments across the country. The approval will enable what Ameriflight calls "the first fully operational, large-scale drone operation in the United States."
by David Seeley |
Dec 15, 2022
You may hear a buzz in the air soon within a mile of 11 Dallas-area Walmart stores, but it's not the sound of an early electric Santa sleigh. It's another sign that commercial drones are becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. The big-box giant has expanded its drone delivery partnership with DroneUp into Texas.
For a $3.99 delivery fee, customers within a mile of each store can order packages and see them drop gently to their yard or driveway on the same day.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 29, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses.
The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 1, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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Prime Air: Drone Deliveries Get Closer With Amazon Trial
by Alex Edwards and Jeff Bounds | Jun 6, 2019
It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope—it's just your Amazon order. "Within months," Amazon expects to start using drones to deliver packages. With two giant fulfillment centers announced in Dallas-Fort Worth last year, could the delivery drones be next?
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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 Quincy Preston |
Mar 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
Capital One's asset tracking systems
US Concrete's concrete with a reduced surface drying time
Toyota's integrated truck bed washing system
MoneyGram's promotion generation engine for a money transfer system
McAfee's system for calculating an object's trust level
Dr Pepper/Seven Up's sweet taste improving compositions
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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.]
Dallas Invents: 148 Patents Granted for Week of March 5
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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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Groupchatter's wireless group alerting or messaging
• Match Group's profile matching
• Toyota's methods for adjusting vehicle parameters according to merging lanes
• Verizon and Redbox's system for a media-on-demand-based programming channel
• TXU Energy's analyzed energy usage and home automation
• An unassigned patent for an alarm that could prevent a passenger from being left in a vehicle
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