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Six North Texas inventors worked on this new 7-Eleven patent. [Image: USPTO Patent #12749284, DI Studio]
Patented: 7-Eleven’s Item-Recognition Tech and 121 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Oct 21, 2026
Irving-based 7-Eleven received two patents tied to inventory tracking and computer vision, as North Texas ranked No. 10 among 250 U.S. metros for patent activity the week of Sept. 29.
Patented: Citi’s AI-Generated Suspicious Activity Reports and 105 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head |
Oct 14, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 nationally with 106 patents the week of Sept. 22. One went to Citibank for a system, developed largely by an Irving team, that uses large language models to draft the reports banks must file when they suspect financial crime.
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by Lauren Lawley Head |
Oct 8, 2026
The Dec. 11 event will feature more than two dozen speakers from companies such as Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar and Toyota North America. Organizers plan to make it an annual forum focusing on innovation strategy as the CInO role continues to grow.
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Patented: Lennox’s Machine-Learning Thermostat Scheduling and 105 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head |
Oct 7, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 nationally with 106 patents the week of Sept. 15. One went to Richardson-based Lennox for a thermostat that predicts when a home is occupied and adjusts based on how aggressively the user wants to save energy.
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ProtectMed received a patent for a radiation shield to protect healthcare workers. [Photo: Adobe Stock]
Patented: ProtectMed’s Breast and Thyroid Radiation Shield and 113 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Sep 23, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 nationally with 114 patents the week of Sept. 1. One went to Dallas-based ProtectMed for a shield that covers the parts of the body that standard lead aprons leave exposed.
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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 Quincy Preston |
Jun 9, 2026
Dallas holds 21 of the region's 49 Fortune 1000 headquarters, with the rest fanning out from Irving and Plano to Frisco and Fort Worth. "Growth is happening in every direction," Dallas Regional Chamber CEO Brad Cheves says.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 9, 2026
TI said its new single-chip solution is the industry's highest-cell-count battery monitor with an integrated EIS engine, bringing "predictive intelligence, comprehensive data, and real-time diagnostics" to battery monitoring in EVs—and in energy storage systems for AI data centers, as well.
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A Toyota patent is designed to detect whether a vehicle passenger is experiencing motion sickness by comparing vehicle movement with head movement measured by a radar sensor. The system then activates "mitigation control," according to the abstract. The inventors are John D. Harkleroad (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and Vasudeva S. Murthy (Ann Arbor, Michigan), with Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. in Plano as the assignee. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12589769, Fig. 4A; DI Studio]
Patented: Toyota’s Motion Sickness Mitigation and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Apr 29, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 31 with a total of 110 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 22, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 24 with a total of 171 patents granted.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 10, 2026
"TI invented the digital signal processor almost 50 years ago, laying the groundwork for today's edge AI processing," said Texas Instruments' Amichai Ron. "Now TI is leading the next phase of innovation by integrating the TinyEngine NPU across our entire microcontroller portfolio."
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by David Seeley |
Mar 5, 2026
By fusing camera and radar data, a new solution from Texas Instruments and NVIDIA improves humanoid robots' object detection, localization, and tracking while reducing false positives for confident, real-time decision-making, TI said.
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