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Plano-based Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America received a patent for an air mattress that automatically adjusts to compensate for uneven ground. [Photo: Adobe Stock]
Patented: Toyota’s Self-Leveling Air Mattress and 122 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Nov 11, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 nationally with 123 patents the week of Oct. 20. One went to Plano-based Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for an air mattress that adjusts itself to stay level.
by Sandra Engelland |
Nov 4, 2026
A $24 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, plus $4.8 million from other sources, will fund chip prototyping facilities, workforce training and startup commercialization across North Texas and southern Oklahoma.
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Five Irving inventors worked on a recent patent for Citibank that uses large language models to draft suspicious activity reports. [Image: Adobe Stock]
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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Unleashed Brands founder and CEO Michael Browning Jr. received a patent for the design of a tube slide the week of Aug. 25. [Illustration: Sources, USPTO Patent No. US0D1144710S; DI Studio]
Patented: Urban Air Founder’s Indoor Slide Designs and 175 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Sep 16, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 nationally with 177 patents the week of Aug. 25. Two of those went to Michael Browning Jr., who received design patents for two types of slides used at Urban Air locations.
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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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Textron Innovations Inc. won a patent in July for a tiltrotor aircraft that carries its rotor assemblies at the front and back of the fuselage rather than on the wingtips. The filing says the arrangement is more structurally efficient and creates less drag than a conventional setup. [Composite image: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12,679,535-B2, Fig. 1; DI Studio]
Patented: Textron’s Modular Tandem Tiltrotor and 176 More Inventions Across North Texas
by Dave Head | Aug 12, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of July 14 with a total of 177 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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by David Seeley |
Apr 29, 2026
Texas Instruments invented the world's first handheld electronic calculator prototype in 1967. This week, it launched a new graphing calculator "built to meet the demands of today's math classroom" and to grow with students from middle school algebra all the way through college and future STEM careers.
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