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Patented: Nanoscope Therapeutics’ Optogenetic Vision Restoration and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 4 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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UT Dallas Team Builds Neuromorphic Computer That Could Cut AI Training Costs
by | Nov 24, 2025
The brain-inspired design could lower the energy and compute costs behind AI training requirements, an increasingly urgent challenge for enterprises.
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How a Dallas Nonprofit Is Launching Girls Into STEM
From oil spill experiments to AI-powered avatars, GEMS Camp gives girls hands-on experiences that build skills and a path to STEM. The camp, founded by a former teacher, has reached more than 1,300 participants—and 85% have pursued science, technology, engineering, or math in college.
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AT&T, Southwest, TI & More: BlackRock Launches ETF for Investing in Texas Companies
by | Jun 24, 2025
With "Y'all Street" gaining momentum by the day, now there's a way to buy into nearly 200 Texas companies with a single ETF. And dozens of North Texas companies are included in TEXN, BlackRock's new exchange-traded fund.
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Texas Instruments Foundation Awards $1M Grant to North Texas Food Bank

by | Jun 11, 2025
TI's award is in support of the food bank's new five-year strategic initiative, Fulfilling Futures, which aims to close "critical meal gaps" among other key goals. The foundation has awarded over $6 million to the food bank since 2018.
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TI Launches New Radar Sensor, Lidar Laser Driver to Advance Automotive Safety
by | Apr 22, 2025
"Semiconductor innovation delivers the reliability, precision, integration, and affordability automakers need to increase vehicle autonomy across their entire fleet," said Texas Instruments' Andreas Schaefer.
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NVIDIA To Manufacture AI Supercomputers in North Texas as Part of Half‑Trillion-Dollar Push
by | Apr 15, 2025
NVIDIA's Taiwan-based manufacturing partners, including Wistron in North Texas and Foxconn in Houston, will build plants to produce the first NVIDIA AI supercomputers ever to be built entirely in the U.S. The goal: powering a new generation of AI data centers while "hardening supply chain resilience."
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11 North Texas Companies Make Fortune’s 2025 ‘Most Innovative’ List
by | Mar 27, 2025
The 11 North Texas companies who helped define "what innovation looks like in 2025" were led by AT&T at No. 37, followed among the top 100 by Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and McKesson.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 4WEB's implants having bone growth promoting agents contained within biodegradable materials
  • Bear Robotics' method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a robot to load and unload a target object
  • CVS Pharmacy's intelligent medication monitoring
  • Hemanext's anaerobic blood storage containers
  • JPMorgan Chase Bank's automated detection, elimination, and prevention of toxic combinations for personal information data
  • Lennox Industries' peak demand response operation of HVAC systems
  • Match Group's system and method for dynamically generating suggestions to facilitate conversations between remote users
  • Seismic Software's document portion identification in a recorded video
  • Texas Instruments' lookup table for non-linear systems
  • Textron Innovations' heliport docking system
  • Toyota's systems and methods for obstacle detection using a neural network model, depth maps, and segmentation maps


Patented: Game Changer Patch Co.’s Transdermal Patches for Hangover Minimization and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 21 with a total of 138 patents granted.
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Dallas-Based TI Debuts Radar Sensor, Audio Processors to Enhance ‘In-Cabin Automotive Experiences’
by | Jan 7, 2025
Texas Instruments said the edge AI capabilities of its new radar sensor help improve automotive safety, while its next-gen microcontroller units and processors elevate driving via "more immersive audio." All are being debuted this week at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.
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East Meets West: Investors, Businesspeople from Japan & Taiwan Take Economic Tour of Texas
by | Dec 3, 2024
The five-day Best of Texas Bus Tour included DFW stops at NTT Data, Toyota Motor North America, and GlobalWafers—with time out for longhorn-riding portraits along the way.
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How Partnering With UTD Capstone Programs Is a Strategic Advantage for Forward-Thinking Companies
by | Nov 14, 2024
Companies are leveraging UTD student talent to tackle real world business projects—from engineering to data science to management. And many are finding their next great hires in the process. Apply now to secure your own project for Spring 2025.
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Texas Instruments Gets Up to $1.6B in Federal CHIPS Funding for Semiconductor Plants in North Texas and Utah

by | Aug 16, 2024
The funding from the U.S. Commerce Department will support the construction of two semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in Sherman, 40 miles north of Dallas—part of TI's $30 billion, four "fab" project in the city. It will also support the buildout of another TI fab plant in Lehi, Utah.
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TI Rolls Out 90% Smaller Controller for ‘Epic’ 4K UHD Displays for Gaming, Entertainment, & AR Glasses
by | Aug 6, 2024
Designed for future, more compact video and gaming projectors—and augmented reality glasses—the new controller will enable "the smallest, fastest, and lowest-power 4K ultra-high-definition projectors ever," TI says. Instead of needing a giant HDTV on the wall, you'll just need the wall.
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Texas Instruments Launches New Magnetic Packaging Tech for Power Modules, Doubling Power Density
by | Jul 16, 2024
Dallas-based TI says the innovation uses proprietary, newly engineered material and has been "nearly a decade in the making." Jeff Morroni of TI's Kilby Labs added that designers "turn to power modules to save on time, complexity, size and component count, but these benefits have required a compromise on performance—until now."
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Texas Instruments Adds Rice University President to Its Board
by | Feb 23, 2024
Reginald DesRoches has been the president of Rice University in Houston since 2022 and a professor of engineering there since 2017.
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