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The future of logistics isn’t being built in Silicon Valley. It’s being built in Fort Worth.

Hillwood’s decades-long commitment to AllianceTexas—anchored by public-private partnerships, infrastructure investment, and a clear-eyed view of what next-generation supply chains would require—created the foundation for what’s happening today....

Augustus doesn’t have a bank yet. But it has already cleared one of banking’s toughest hurdles: preliminary approval for a national charter.

The Thiel-backed fintech is building what it calls the first clearing bank for the AI era—a bank organized around stablecoins, round-the-clock payments, and a future of machine-to-machine transactions....

Beyond Visa, other organizations with notable patents granted this week include:

• 7-Eleven’s system for identifying an item based on an amount of image information in an image of the item
• Amazon’s wireless charging of industrial equipment
• Apple’s physical activity user interfaces
• Bank of America’s method for verifying user authorization using zero-proof verification
• Capital One’s assessing computer code using machine learning
• Citigroup’s feature management for software deployment
• CryoDynamics’ cold therapy device and method
• Diodes’ audio speaker system using piezo diaphragm
• Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics’ tarsometatarsal joint arthrodesis tools and related methods for bunion correction
• JPMorgan Chase’s account matching based on partial profile data
• Nvidia’s PID control to address toggling of secondary flow controllers in datacenter cooling systems
• Qualcomm’s shared phase shifter radio architecture
• Sound Patrol’s personalized cover-voice music synthesis system
• Texas Instruments’ sparsified training of convolutional neural networks
• Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions’ self-checkout illumination system
• Toyota’s driver condition-based vehicle navigation
• The University of Texas System’s systems and methods to measure retinal perfusion
• Wells Fargo’s cloud security posture management

Dallas Invents is a look at U.S....