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UT Dallas Researchers Create Low-Cost ‘Artificial Muscles’ That Could Power the Future of Smart Clothing and Robotics

by | Jun 11, 2025
An earlier version of the technology was used in jackets worn by U.S. Olympic athletes in 2022. A new fabrication technique could make large-scale production feasible for adaptive clothing to self-powered sensors and wearable tech.
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Fort Worth’s AyuVis Gets FDA Fast‑Track Designation for Its Drug for Babies with a Chronic Lung Disease
by | Aug 23, 2024
Premature babies diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) face the risk of rehospitalization, delayed brain development, and respiratory problems throughout childhood. No FDA-approved therapies are available for BPD—which is why the new FDA designation for AyuVis's drug candidate, AVR-48, could lead to game-changing impact.
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Patented: Omnitrac’s Blockchain‑Based Hours‐of‐Service System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of August 29. Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 152 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's control channel for UE power saving, Avrio Genetics's chemosensory disorder trigger and management system, Brain Games' conducting a game including a computer-controlled player, Cisco's automating and extending path tracing through wireless links, Citibank's microservices anomaly detection, LightSpeed Technologies' light-based heat in an object, Meta's modifying a safety boundary for virtual reality systems, Nike's footwear heel structure, Omnitracs' blockchain-based hours-of-service system, Pratt Corrugated's tamper-evident box, Raytheon's object recognition and detection using reinforcement learning, Texas Institute of Science's hearing aid and method for use of same, and YUM Connect's automated beverage production system.
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Fort Worth’s AyuVis Is One Step Closer to Protecting Pre-Term Babies from a Leading Cause of Death

by | Mar 31, 2022
Fort Worth-based AyuVis just received its second patent in three months for its immunotherapy treatments that protect pre-term babies from a debilitating chronic lung disease that affects many pre-term infants on ventilators.

The startup's lead drug candidate—AVR-48—is scheduled for clinical trials this summer.
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Shavelogic razor startup funding
Dallas’ Shavelogic Hones Its Edge With $100 Million in New Growth Capital
by | Sep 17, 2021
The cutting-edge razor brand introduced a new shaving system last year, after a decade-plus of R&D, more than 150 global patents, and legal battles with Gillette. Now Shavelogic plans to expand innovation and market reach to upgrade the shave.
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Dallas’ BaCo Tech Patents Its Transaction-Based Workflow for CPA Firms
BaCo Tech gathers and manages all clients of a firm’s accounting records in a single location. As a 'conversion tool,' the technology takes an industry’s reactive workflow and turns it into a proactive workflow—offering more opportunities for advisory services. 
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PrimeVOX escude COVID-19
How Frisco-Based PrimeVox Uses AI to Increase Call Quality and Reliability
by | Nov 19, 2020
PrimeVOX Communications' now patented AI technology allows the telecommunications company to provide customers with crystal-clear calls and unbelievable reliability. Think of it like a GPS: The tech constantly runs calls through multiple data centers, moving them around when necessary, to maximize quality.
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Impact Ventures: Meet HVACIntel, an IoT Platform That Helps Contractors Manage HVAC Installations

by | Jul 21, 2020
HVACIntel hopes to disrupt the legacy industry with its patented IoT platform that monitors HVAC systems, proactively detects operational issues, and prevents failures.
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research
R&D: SMU Gets $5M From Templetons for Engineering Research, UTA Patents ‘Smart Cushion’
by | Sep 21, 2018
Also, you'll learn about an award-winning UNT professor and what his next study will entail. Here are some of the research projects underway in North Texas that could make lives better.
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Dallas Law Firm, Raytheon Share History with USPTO Patent No. 10 Million
by | Jun 22, 2018
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants a milestone patent for a device that improves laser detection and ranging.
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Dallas Marks World IP Day With Spotlight on Female Inventors
by | Apr 26, 2018
The gathering at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema featured a panel of local female inventors and a screening of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.
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infections

Discovery: How a Magnetic Field Can Help Pesky Infections, Cream Treating Persistent Pain & UTA Prof Gets His First Patent

by | Dec 22, 2017
Researchers all across North Texas are making discoveries and advances in their work. Here are some of their stories.
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Prism
Dallas Startup Pryzm Gets Patent on Digital Lens Technology
by | Nov 20, 2017
The patent covers an assembly that attaches to an image-capturing device such as a cellphone and allows for enhanced imaging.
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hail intensity
Plano Startup Gets Patent on Hail Intensity Data System
by | Nov 14, 2017
Dynamic Weather Solutions says its invention will offer insurance companies and others with access to previously unavailable hail intensity data.
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Norman
Patent No. PP028502: Just Call Me Norman
by | Oct 19, 2017
A “Blueberry plant named Norman,” is the only plant patent issued so far this year in DFW.
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