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Million Dollar Milestones: Dallas-based Qentelli Keeps Growing

by | Jun 19, 2019
The continuous delivery software startup has bagged Southwest Airlines and YPO Dallas as clients, and now aims to move into "digital twin" in the next few months.
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Dallas Invents: 163 Patents Granted for Week of June 11
by | Jun 19, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: IBM's management of cookie data, AMI Investments' remote monitoring of water distribution systems, Bank of America's data security and risk ranking tool, Daltile's glazed porcelain roof tile, Ilumi's LED lighting device, The Nielsen Company's apparatus to monitor mobile internet activity, and Toyota's personalized active safety systems.
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Take a Closer Look at DreamHack Dallas 2019 with DHD Films’ Gigapixel Photos
by | Jun 14, 2019
DHD Films is giving viewers a 360-degree tour of DreamHack Dallas with DHD GIGA, a 4-billion-pixel capture that lets viewers get up close and personal with attendees.
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Dallas Invents: 124 Patents Granted for Week of June 4
by | Jun 12, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Knightscope's autonomous parking monitor, Service King's auto repair systems including 3D printed parts, Siemens intelligent 3D printer, Johnson & Johnson's pupil-only photochromic contact lenses, Bank of America's authorization of a user in a virtual reality environment, ATT's distributed forwarding service, Freeflight Acquisition's quick-mount detachable antenna, and Imagine Communications' distributed ledger platform.
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Dallas’ Entertainment Giant Dave & Buster’s Unveils a New Virtual Playground

by | Jun 4, 2019
The entertainment company's "free-roaming" VR experience uses no wires, allowing players to run, duck, and jump to defeat their competition. 
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Dallas Invents: 123 Patents Granted for Week of May 21
by | May 29, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Amazon's mitigation of distributed denial-of-service attacks, American Vehicular Sciences' in-vehicle signage for displaying data about road signs, IBM's collaborative shopping across multiple channels using shared virtual carts, nMetric's bus stop systems, The Parking Genius' user validation system, Vivify's virtual rehabilitation system, Breghtway Construction Solutions' insulating panel for stucco exterior
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of May 14
by | May 22, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Novartis' multifocal diffractive ophthalmic lens, Refocus Group's scleral prosthesis for treating presbyopia and other eye disorders, Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV, New York Air Brake's train emission control system, ID Technology's in-line label applicator, Avodah Lab's visual sign language translation training, Toyota's distracted driver notification system, Linear Labs' magnetic motor, and an unassigned system for using AI for routing electric vehicles.
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How One Dallas Company is Changing the VR Game with Foot-Operated Controller Patent

by | May 10, 2019
HoboLoco's name is a mashup of "hoverboard" and "locomotion." The startup combines both of these concepts to create its own unique gaming experience.
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Dallas Invents: 118 Patents Granted for Week of April 30
by | 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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Dallas Invents: 136 Patents Granted for Week of April 23
by | 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: 115 Patents Granted for Week of April 16
by | Apr 24, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's augmented reality visual Wi-Fi signal, Bank of America's autonomous software containers, Genband's method for blocking notification messages during screen sharing, Linear Labs' brushless electric motor/generator, Sabre's tokenized data security, Phazr's window-installed wireless communications device, Conduent's method for video-based detection of drive-offs and walk-offs
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of April 2

by | 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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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of March 26
by | 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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Dallas Invents: 87 Patents Granted for Week of March 19
by | 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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Dallas Invents: 97 Patents Granted for Week of March 12
by | 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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