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Dallas Invents: 142 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 4

by | Feb 12, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Frito-Lay's potato chip that has more oil near its outer surfaces, American Leather's seat convertible to a bed, Capital One's authorized data sharing using smart contracts, Google's dynamic digital certificate updating, IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems, Raytheon's shadow mask generation using elevation data, and ROCA Medical's therapeutic treatment kit for allergies based on DNA profiles.
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Dallas Helps Tech Employment Rebound, CompTIA Analysis Shows
by | Feb 10, 2020
Dallas joins New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco among the cities showing the largest month-over-month growth in January tech job postings.
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7-Eleven Pilots Cashierless Concept Store at its Irving Headquarters
by | Feb 7, 2020
The test store uses a mix of algorithms and predictive technology to separate individual customers and their purchases from others.
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AI-Powered: Tricolor Reports $30M Investment for Affordable Car Loans
by | Feb 6, 2020
Tricolor uses an AI-powered model that takes into account nontraditional attributes for no-credit and low-income subprime auto loan customers.
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Meet the Future 50: Dave Copps, CEO and Co-founder of Worlds

With three successful exits from startups under his belt, and Worlds launching from stealth with $10 million in funding, Copps knows a thing or two about how to build a company. We also found out his "walk on" song is Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 28
by | Feb 5, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining the correct pronunciation of dictated words, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Fujitsu Limited's efficient message forwarding for distributed resource orchestration, Garrity Power Services' wireless headset, Lynntech's undersea vehicle and method for operating a reactor, Plano Molding's flexible wildlife feeder and closure, SecurityProfiling's real-time vulnerability monitoring, and Texas Instrument's crosstalk calibration for multi-channel systems.
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Mobile Delivery App Brings Food Straight to Your Seat
by | Feb 4, 2020
iJustOrder's mobile engagement and e-commerce platform allows event attendees to place orders, make in-app payments, and get orders delivered directly to them.
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Meet the Future 50: North Texas Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know
No matter which of our six buckets you look at—startup, enterprise, invention, education, innovation, or creative—you're sure to find leaders capable of disrupting industries, benefiting society, or changing the world.
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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 21

by | Jan 29, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's narrow band awareness for in-device coexistence, Capital One's ground plane detection for placement of AR objects, CareView Communications' method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Dell's time-based local authentication in an information handling system utilizing asymmetric cryptography, Genband's denial-of-service protection for IP telephony systems, Texas Instruments' data encoder for power line communications, and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' apparatus for picking products.
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The USPTO is Now Accepting National Medal of Technology and Innovation Nominations
by | Jan 27, 2020
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is accepting nominations until April 3.
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Follow the Money: DoctorLogic Raises $7M; Geoforce, TPG Growth Make Acquisitions
by | Jan 23, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Match Group, On the Road Lending, Oakview Capital, Sales Benchmark Index, TPG Capital, Mark Cuban, P10 Holdings, Cloudvisory, Metro Energy Savers, and Trudela Partners.
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Dallas Invents: 109 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 14
by | Jan 22, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's vehicle data sharing with interested parties. Dolby Laboratories Licensing's high contrast discrete input prism for image projectors, Doskocil Manufacturing's destruction-resistant pet toys, Mobile Equity's mobile payment station system and method, Motive Drilling Technologies' automated slide drilling, rewardStyle's location-based dynamic redirection of advertiser affiliate links for online advertising, and Texas Instruments' ultrasound color doppler imaging.
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Startup Funding: Who Got the Money in 2019

by | Jan 15, 2020
Regardless of what type of funding it is—seed, venture capital, angel, or corporate—here are 31 North Texas companies that successfully pulled in capital last year to back their ventures.
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Logistics Tech Firm Transplace Buys Cloud Platform Lanehub in Strategic Move
by | Jan 15, 2020
Both companies are expected to benefit from the deal, which gives their customers access to transportation tech and strategic management via their combined resources.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 7
by | Jan 15, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: IBM's continuous health care plan coordination between patient and patient care team, Luraco's portable and rechargeable drill system, Occidental Chemical Corporation's methods of making chlorinated hydrocarbons, Roka Sports' eyeglasses with interchangeable lenses, Tesla's power balancing in a multi-phase system, Texas Instruments' wireless power transmission with fractional timing resolution, Toyota's object detection system, and Verizon's radio access technology change reporting.
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Construction Kicks Off on High-Tech West End Square in Downtown Dallas
by | Jan 9, 2020
The new park is designed to incorporate evolving technologies in the West End, and is the second of four new parks planned for the city's urban center.
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