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Unleashed Brands founder and CEO Michael Browning Jr. received a patent for the design of a tube slide the week of Aug. 25. [Illustration: Sources, USPTO Patent No. US0D1144710S; DI Studio]
Patented: Urban Air Founder’s Indoor Slide Designs and 175 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Sep 16, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 nationally with 177 patents the week of Aug. 25. Two of those went to Michael Browning Jr., who received design patents for two types of slides used at Urban Air locations.
Patented: Nanoscope Instruments’ Low-Vision Function Test and 134 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head |
Sep 2, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 among 250 U.S. metros in patent production for the week of Aug. 11, with 135 patents granted to inventors and companies across the region.
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Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children now has a patent for a suture anchor that a surgeon can loosen after surgery with a magnet held outside the patient’s body. [Composite illustration: Sources, USPTO Patent #12685525-B2; DI Studio]
Patented: Scottish Rite’s Magnetically Released Suture Anchor and 108 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Aug 19, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of July 21 with a total of 109 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 10, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 19 with a total of 129 patents granted.
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A newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" has been awarded to inventors Dallas-based Jianhui Wang and Ahmad Fayez Taha, Shen Wang (both based in San Antonio). Assigned to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Southern Methodist University, the patent outlines a system that enables distributed energy resources to be traded peer-to-peer across a power network, using forecasts and optimal power flow to schedule delivery. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12278491, Fig. 1; background by Nadya So/iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AT&T's facilitation of dynamic edge computations for 6G or other next generation network
- CareView Communications' smart monitoring safety and quality of life system using sensors
- Coinbase's systems for generating secure, encrypted communications using multi-party computations in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications
- Hera Health Solutions' bioerodible drug delivery implants
- HG Partners' continuous-wave radar system for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals in saltwater environments
- o9 Solutions' hierarchical tournament-based machine learning predictions
- Skyhigh Security's systems, methods, and media for monitoring cloud configuration settings
- Tenfold Technologies' anti-pathogen composition
- Toyota's lithium metal nitrides as lithium super-ionic conductors
- Verily Life Sciences' triggering virtual clinical exams
Patented: UT System, SMU Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 21, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 15 with a total of 84 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 29, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 24 with a total of 133 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 20, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 5, with a total of 85 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 30, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 15, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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AT&T Intellectual Property has been granted U.S. patent #12095813 for a system that detects homoglyph attacks, invented by Antoine Diffloth, Natalie Gilbert, and Sundaresan Manoharan. The system uses convolutional and siamese neural networks to identify malicious domain name variations, where visually similar characters from different alphabets (like 'O' vs. '0' or 'l' vs. 'I') are used to deceive users. This helps businesses safeguard their protected domain names from cyber threats. [Source image: Dragon Claws / iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- American Security Products' physical exchange using a safe
- Bank of America's data processing by a self-correcting, deep neural network integrated within a memory resource
- The University of Texas System's controlling prosthetic devices by gestures and other modalities
- Care View Communications' monitoring a fall state of a patient while minimizing false alarms
- Comcast Cable Communications' dynamic virtual element positioning in an augmented reality environment
- Fluid Dynamic Sciences' fast feature recognition and mesh generation in structural design
- GEMMY Industries' firework lighting device
- Intellective AI’s alert directives and focused alert directives in a behavioral recognition system
- KoiReader Technologies' edge computing device and system for vehicle, container, railcar, trailer, and driver verification
- Legacy Ventures' clot retrieval system
- Marvell Asia's system and method for bitcoin mining with reduced power
- Mary Kay’s delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin
- Ryder Integrated Logistics' vehicle fleet control systems and methods
- SightGlass Vision's methods and devices for reducing myopia in children
- The Nielsen Company's methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history
- Walmart Apollo's systems for detecting and tracking humans in captured images
Patented: AT&T’s Homoglyph Attack Detection and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 2, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 24, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 11, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 27, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
May 17, 2024
Rhiannon D’Agostin and Adam Rehm have joined Norton Rose Fulbright as partners, and counsel Zack Cleary has joined the global law firm's IP practice as well.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 8, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 16, 2024. 109 patents granted include: Arkestro’s electronic third-party negotiation automation system and tool, Baylor Research Institute’s compositions for treating autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, Boston Scientific Neuromodulation’s neuroinflammation treatments with parameters controlled using biomarkers, and Global Tel*Link Corporation’s mobile correctional facility robots.
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