technology

ParkHub Acquires Connecticut-based Competitor and Plans to Open New Markets

by | Dec 10, 2019
ParkHub also expects to consolidate its parking tech with Wireless Carpark and expand its client set.
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 26
by | Dec 4, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Grizzly Home's tornado-proof housing, American Airlines' demand forecasting, Avodah Labs'automated sign language translation and communication, Capital One's techniques to leverage machine learning for SEO, Olaeris' landing guidance for remotely operated aerial vehicles, Refocus Group's scleral prosthesis for treating presbyopia and other eye disorders, Swirlds' apparatus for efficiently implementing a fast-copyable database, and Toyota's system and method for Braille assistance.
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NTT Data Services to Acquire Fast-Growing Austin-Based IT Firm
by | Dec 3, 2019
NTT Data says the acquisition will enhance what it delivers in Amazon Web Services, DevOps, and Agile development capabilities.
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An illustration from Toyota’s newly granted patent for a physical assistive robotic system. [Image: USPTO, Patent No. 10478365]
Dallas Invents: 180 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 19
by | Nov 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's physical assistive robotic systems, Audatex North America's VIN-based insurance claim system, Bank of America's holistic data transmission throughout an enterprise, Novartis' curvature-changing, accommodative intraocular lens, Capital One's methods for co-browsing, and iMed Technology's antiseptic swab with activation button.
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DI People: RoboKind, rewardStyle, Jacobs, and Idea Grove Make Leadership Announcements

by | Nov 19, 2019
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves by companies in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Medecision, Magna5, the Panther Island project, Frost Bank, RAVE Restaurant Group, HollyFrontier, and Gateway First Bank.
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Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 5
by | Nov 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Century Interactive's dynamic protection of personal information in audio recordings, Epsilon Data Management's social media instant win method and system, General Electric's system for data processing in a vehicle group, NEC's method for capturing images used in facial recognition, and Toyota's electronic and physical storage for shared vehicles.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 29
by | Nov 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's crowd location-based analytics for transactions, Bank of America's data transmission authentication and self-destruction, Evergaze's apparatus for improving, augmenting or enhancing vision, Futurewei Technologies' automatic identity detection, Imagine Communications' splicing media files, IBM's cognitive parking guidance, Lone Star IP Holdings' small smart weapon, and Oldcastle Building Envelope's demountable wall system.
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Dallas Invents: 126 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 22
by | Oct 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: University of Washington's cough detecting methods and devices for detecting coughs, Advanced Micro Devices' temperature-aware task scheduling and proactive power management, Cyber adAPT's cyber threat attenuation using multi-source threat data analysism, DFB Soria's delivery of drug nanoparticles , Ecotomic Group's furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production, Raytheon Company's detection system for detecting changes to circuitry, Retina Foundation of the Southwest's two-layer ocular implant, and Accudata Technologies' system for providing additional information to called parties.
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Audatex North America's predictive estimate for a damaged vehicle

Dallas Invents: 164 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 8

by | Oct 16, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Audatex North America's predictive estimate for a damaged vehicle , Your Command's apparatus for electronically searching for an item, University of Texas' kit for external fixators for bone realignment, LapKing Holdings' method of tracking a vehicle's course, Capital One's social home buying system, Excentus Corporation's system of influencing customer behavior, Flashscan3D's biometric image sensor with spoofing detection, BlackBerry Limited's provisioning of emergency numbers, Tango's identification of a vehicle driver based on driving behavior, 1A Smart Start's automated calibration station for ignition interlock devices, and Bank of America Corporation's "Message spinning engine" to create or manage a queue.
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Kibo Monetate
Cloud Commerce Provider Kibo Acquiring AI-Powered Monetate Platform
by | Oct 10, 2019
Dallas-headquartered Kibo plans to invest heavily in personalization capabilities to stay ahead of its competitors.
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Toyota's patent granted for a Smart necklace for social awareness for people with impaired vision or on the autism spectrum.
Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 1
by | Oct 9, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's smart necklace for social awareness, Apple's adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity for wireless devices, Arch Holdings' method for media destruction using a kiosk, AT&T's system for grouping users to different speed tiers for wireless communication, Bank of America's electronic security keys for data security based on quantum particle states, Capital One's vehicle location system, SMU's method for privacy preserving disclosure of a shared, identity-linked secret, and Wells Fargo Bank's biometric electronic signature tokens.
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Apogee Semiconductor picked as NASA partner. The Artemis program: NASA’s “Tipping Point” technology funding is part of the space agency’s push to land humans on the moon by 2024. [Image: Screenshot/NASA.gov]
To the Moon: NASA Awards North Texas Firm $2M for ‘Tipping Point’ Technology
by | Oct 7, 2019
Apogee Semiconductor's technology could help enable the space agency’s exploration of the Moon—and beyond. It's one of 14 U.S. companies picked in the fourth round of NASA's 'Tipping Point' partner program.
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Big Four Mobile Carriers to Unveil ‘ZenKey’ Tech to Rid Us of Passwords

by | Oct 2, 2019
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint are collaborating on ZenKey, a new way to verify and authenticate who's using your mobile device.
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Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 24
by | Oct 2, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: teleCalm's telephone system for impaired individuals, AiBUY's interactive product placement system, Allied Bioscience's composition to form self decontaminating surface, Capital One Services' method for an ATM to issue a secured bank card, Flex-a-Rock Holdings' latex-based formulations for coating and sculpting applications, rewardStyle's methods for screenshot linking, Tella Firma's expendable fluid drive actuators for foundation lifting, Tesla's solar photovoltaic power conditioning units, TRV Dispense's soft food and beverage dispenser, and Wells Fargo Banks' methods for processing nuances in natural language.
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Private Investors Find Polte’s Location Platform for $12.5M Investment
by | Oct 1, 2019
With its patented alternative to GPS, Polte leverages widely available 4G and 5G networks to help manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of goods effectively track and manage millions of assets.
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Corgan and TMGcore Team Up to Downsize Data Centers
by | Sep 26, 2019
The companies will unveil conceptual designs for the new data centers—intended to be a tenth of the traditional sizing—in November to show off the "groundbreaking technology."
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