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Apply Now: Opportunities for North Texas Innovators

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:00:06 +0000

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North Texas is a big place with plenty of opportunities. Here’s a curated roundup of contests and competitions; accelerator and recognition programs; and resource and grant opportunities for North Texas innovators.

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Patented: Making a Degradable Ice Straw and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:53:39 +0000

Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas.

Other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

Advanced Interventional Cardiovascular Solutions’ non-occluding balloon for cardiovascular drug delivery
Bank of America’s leveraging quantum entanglement for replicating data in multiple locations and twin tagging the data
BMIC’s roofing shingle having uniquely identifiable radio frequency-based tag
Dell Products’ use of reliability predictions for selection of data storage devices
Hedera Hashgraph’s methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network
IBM’s realtime identity attack detection and remediation
Lennox Industries’ system for detecting a refrigerant leak in an HVAC system using a subcooling temperature
Micro Focus’ identification of variants of artificial intelligence generated malware
NxGen Partners IP’s unified nonlinear modeling approach for machine learning and artificial intelligence (attractor-assisted AI)
Siemens Industry Software’s systems and methods for automatic detachment of support structures for 3D printed parts
Theatro Labs’ integrating verbal collaboration platforms with data collection and user context
Toyota Motor North America’s limiting battery degradation for a group of vehicles
Verily Life Sciences’ thin-film high-density sensing array, sub-scalp implantation tool and implant method
Wells Fargo’s systems for adversarial annotations

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Calendar: Not-to-Miss Events for Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:00:15 +0000

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North Texas is a big place, with plenty to do, see, hear, and watch. We scour the internet every week to find events and activities for you. As always, things may change at any time, so be sure to check the official website or registration page for the latest details.…

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The Last Word: HGP Intelligent Energy’s CEO on Repurposing Navy Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:41:46 +0000

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“We already know how to do this safely and at scale, and we’re fortunate to have a solid base of investors and partners who share that vision.”

Gregory Forero
CEO
HGP Intelligent Energy
…on the Texas-based company’s proposal to repurpose retired U.S.…

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Patented: Bank of America’s Quantum Reflection Access Credentialing and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:36:31 +0000

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Beyond Bank of America, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

AtomBeam Technologies’ system for persistent cognitive machines using a digital thought architecture
Capital One Services’ provisioning a vehicle experience according to an authentication of a driver for the vehicle experience
Creo Ingredients’ cannabinoid synthase variants and methods for their use
Dell Products’ artificial intelligence-based techniques for automated visual data searching using edge devices
IBM’s generating hybrid quantum-classical neural network architectures
Mag and Bio Dynamics’ hydrogel-based biomedical devices for therapeutic hydrogen treatment of skin and tissues
NoiseAware’s system for generating an alert based on noise
RedCritter’s AI-assisted classroom management with real-time observations, monitoring, and intervention
Siemens’ systems for reducing carbon dioxide emissions using trusted on-demand distributed manufacturing
Toyota’s methods for controlling vehicle settings and/or functions using steering device finger tapping
USAA’s drone-based mud softening treatment device

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Patented: Gemma Robotics’ Automated Makeup Application System and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:34:48 +0000

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Beyond NY-based Gemma Robotics, which has U.S. operations in Dallas and Austin, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

7-Eleven’s anomaly detection and controlling operations of fuel dispensing terminal during operations
AIM Design’s locker with air conditioning system in hinge bar
Bank of America’s monitoring, forecasting, and detecting compromised communications using quantum computing and artificial intelligence
Celanese EVA Performance Polymers’ implantable device for sustained release of a macromolecular drug compound
The University of Texas System’s 3D image analysis platform for neurological conditions
Copart’s undercarriage imaging rover
LeadsOnline’s forensic criminal investigation subject interaction filtering tool for digital interaction data
Nacuity Pharmaceuticals and The Johns Hopkins University’s treatment of retinitis pigmentosa with n-acetylcysteine amide
Paws Forward’s automatic animal feeding system for presenting and securing food pods
Salesforce’s improved application program interface management in a cloud-computing environment
Toyota’s detecting impaired decision-making pedestrians
Waymo’s pick-up and drop-off signals for managing double-parking obstruction
Zelus Wallet’s automated transactions across multiple blockchains with cryptocurrency swaps

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Patented: Island Technology’s Kernel-Based Protection of Computer Processes and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:10:16 +0000

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Beyond Dallas-based Island Technology, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

Alcon’s systems for using machine learning to predict contact lens compatibility
Bestow’s event sourcing
Botsitter’s remote monitoring of vegetation
Flash Seats’ paperless venue entry and location-based services
Ford Global Technologies’ automatic onboard validation of a newly trained vehicle machine learning model
GAD Research’s proof of play blockchain mining
Garner Development Services’ motorized surf board
Intellective AI’s cognitive neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system for multi-sensor data fusion
KPMG’s system for implementing a multimodal assistant using large language models
Kubota Corporation’s audio signaling system and method for autonomous vehicles
Monolithic 3D’s semiconductor device and structure with metal layers and memory cells
Orthofix US’s methods for remote measurement of cervical range of motion
SightGlass Vision’s ophthalmic lenses with light scattering for treating myopia
Spark Biomedical’s delivery of non-penetrating electrical neurostimulation therapy
Toyota’s artificial muscle lightweight seat massager and haptic response chair
Verily Life Sciences’ intraocular system for transmitting data and power optically to an implant
Worlds Enterprises’ methods for automatically clustering similar objects in images

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

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:29:23 +0000

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Beyond Dallas-based Nanoscope Therapeutics, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

4MindsAI’s multimodal data fusion for cybersecurity applications
Bank of America’s private data-less card device enabled for augmented reality display of data
o9 Solutions’ dynamic memoryless demand-supply pegging
OxeFit’s fitness equipment with tap control
Retractable Technologies’ dosage verification system and method for safety syringe
SteriCUBE Surgical Systems’ mobile sterilization apparatus and method for using the same
Topgolf’s golf ball identification apparatus and system
Toyota’s systems for cooling an electric aircraft
Toyota Connected’s ranking carbon footprints of vehicles to determine driving behavior modifications
USAA’s monitoring systems for personal safety
Verily Life Sciences’ determining diaper loading using color detection or activity state
Yokogawa Electric’s rail-mounted robot inspection system

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CPRIT Awards Grants to 15 Dallas-Fort Worth Researchers in Latest Funding Round

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:43:14 +0000

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The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved 15 grants in November totaling nearly $18.4 million for North Texas researchers and institutions in its latest funding round, part of a statewide investment of almost $154 million announced Nov. 19.

UT Southwestern Medical Center dominated the region’s awards with 13 grants spanning recruitment, prevention, and research.

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Patented: Tango Networks’ Automatic Driver Identification Based on Driving Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:05:27 +0000

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Beyond Frisco-based Tango Networks, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

Airbus DS Government Solutions’ container for shipping a satellite terminal
ARKH’s smart ring
Dell Products’ data center monitoring and management operation including a data tag management operation
Elbit Systems’ image-intensified and color sensor camera
FPT USA’s anomalous sound detection
Frontier Communications Holdings’ method for identifying and highlighting available fibers in a fiber distribution hub
Lockheed Martin’s additive manufacture of complex intermetallic and ceramic structures
Microsoft’s peer virtual machine monitoring and auto-healing system
Raytheon’s additively manufactured thermal energy storage units
swipejobs’ employment-related browsing and matching application, method and system
T-Mobile USA’s user plane function configured to prioritize using a preferred internet protocol to establish a connection between user device and host server
Verily Life Sciences’ continuous detection and monitoring of heart arrhythmia using both wearable sensors and cloud-resident analyses
XGS Energy’s high thermal coefficient grout compositions

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Patented: Allstate’s Accident Re-Creation Using Augmented Reality and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:06:44 +0000

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Beyond Allstate, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

Arkh Litho Holdings’ interacting with a smart device using a pointing controller
IBM’s biometric-based distress detection and delivery of assistance
Lockheed Martin’s rotor control for a convertible aircraft
Paws Forward’s automatic animal feeding system for self-disposing of used food pods
Raytheon Company’s high power MMW synthesizer with truly continuous ultra-wide bandwidth tuning range
State Farm’s deep learning image processing method for determining vehicle damage
Toyota’s wheeled luggage item with integrated personal mobility capability
Valid Systems’ instant funds availability risk assessment and real-time fraud alert system and method
Verily Life Sciences’ health monitoring watch
Walmart Apollo’s selecting an image from a group of images of a retail product storage area
Webber’s overhang structure and construction method for a bridge overhang

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Patented: Verily Life Sciences’ AI Prediction of Prostate Cancer Outcomes and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:08:35 +0000

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Beyond Alphabet’s precision-health unit, Verily Life Sciences, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

- Advanced Carpet Recycling’s carpet waste composite
- AT&T’s intelligent traffic switch between networks
- Beclinx USA’s use of localized broadcast signals to modify mobile application behavior
- BNSF Railway Company’s remote engine speed control
- Defense Diagnostic’s analyte detection apparatus for detecting the presence of substances like fentanyl in various materials
- Hedera Hashgraph’s methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network
- Motive Drilling Technologies’ computer vision drilling systems for oilfield operations
- Musarubra US’s distributed malware detection system and submission workflow thereof
- Onto Innovation’s deep learning model in high-mix semiconductor manufacturing
- Spectral MD’s machine learning systems for assessment, healing prediction, and treatment of wounds
- State Farm’s cascading adaptive timeline generation and solving
- T-Mobile Innovations’ network-aware optimal route detection for autonomous applications
- Texas Instruments’ memory sharing for machine learning processing
- Toyota Connected North America’s in-cabin occupant age determination
- USAA’s emergency deployment of a drone-based flood control system
- Verizon’s methods for recording and updating data in a database
- Walgreen’s system for supply chain of pharmaceuticals and other goods

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The Last Word: DRC CEO Dale Petrosky On What Makes a Great Career

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:58:09 +0000

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“If you work really hard every day, and you’re kind every day—and I mean every day—then you’re going to have a great career, because not everybody can.”

Dale Petroskey
President and CEO
Dallas Regional Chamber

… on his advice to young leaders, via the Dallas Business Journal.…

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Patented: Fluor Corp.’s Offshore System for Growing and Harvesting Seaweed, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:37:42 +0000

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Beyond Fluor Technologies, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

4MindsAI’s custom loss functions for training models for cybersecurity applications
Apple’s user interfaces to track medications
Bank of America’s system for classifying suspicious text message content
Celanese’s process for producing functionalized porous composites
Cisco’s synchronicity for virtual reality/augmented reality interactive sessions in wireless networks
Communications Test Design’s apparatus and methods for automatically removing data of mobile devices
Form Bio’s generating a provenance record for processing information in accordance with a computational workflow
IBM’s combined classical/quantum predictor evaluation with model accuracy adjustment
Micro Focus’ identification of malicious programs using thread patterns and related data
Monosol’s degradable materials and packaging made from same
No-dium’s device for ion capture
Signet Health’s identifying outlier data and generating corrective action
Southern Methodist University’s resonant coupler systems and methods for implants
Texas Instruments’ below vehicle rendering for surround view systems
Textron Innovations’ electric tiltrator aircraft with fixed motors
Zumedia’s sensor enhanced wall covering

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Last Call: Nominate for the Dallas Innovates 2026 AI 75 by Dec. 19

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:29:07 +0000

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Dallas-Fort Worth is charting its own path in artificial intelligence. From applied AI to research and engineering advances, our region leads in advancing real-world solutions. Behind every breakthrough and solution are the people making it happen.

For the third year, Dallas Innovates, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, will spotlight 75 people leading AI innovation in North Texas.…

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Patented: Monolithic 3D’s Multilayer Semiconductor Device Production Method and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:32:07 +0000

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Beyond Monolithic 3D, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

7-Eleven’s action detection during image tracking
Auradine’s overclocking system for digital currency mining and method of operation
Capital One Services’ system for detecting unmanaged resources in cloud-based data warehousing system
Edgeverve Systems’ method for extracting information based on user interactions performed on a screen of a computing system
HighLevel’s spam blocking using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework
Intellective AI’s adaptive anomaly context description
Micron Technology’s selective cache line memory encryption
PlentyofFish Media’s systems for balancing device notification
Si-Bone’s implants for spinal fixation
STMicroelectronics’ high dose implantation for ultrathin semiconductor-on-insulator substrates
The University of Texas System’s systems for analyzing brain lesions with longitudinal 3D MRI data
Textron Innovations’ unmanned rotorcraft with dual cargo doors
Toyota’s lane change assist for inexperienced driver
Verizon’s identification of anomalous telecommunication service usage

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Patented: Supernal’s Vertical Take-Off and Landing Craft Systems, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:19:03 +0000

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Beyond Hyundai Motor Group’s Supernal, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

7-Eleven’s anomaly detection and controlling fuel dispensing operations using fuel volume determinations
Advanced Neuromodulation Systems’ temporal interference spinal cord stimulation
Bank of America’s intelligent cash handling
BNSF Railway’s drone-based automated yard check
EnLiSense’s multi-modal and multiplexed electrochemical detection and reporting of environmental contaminants
International Business Machines’ omnichannel virtual assistant using artificial intelligence
Lockheed Martin’s all-purpose foreign object debris detection and retrieval device
Planttagg’s system and method for horticulture viability prediction and display
SCA Promotions’ system for providing a double chance lottery game with a trifecta option
State Farm’s augmented reality system to provide recommendation to repair or replace an existing device to improve home score
The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System’s methods and apparatus for applying tumor treating fields combined with personalized ultra-fractionated stereotactic adaptive radiotherapy
Toyota’s methods to determine awakening lead time for waking up sleeping driver
USAA’s biometric-based transmission of embedded data
Verily Life Sciences’ comprehensive wearable vital signs monitor
Zimperium’s malicious website detection using certificate classifier

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The Last Word: Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker On Film Becoming the City’s Next Great Industry

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:16:56 +0000

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“We believe that film is truly the next great industry in Fort Worth.”

Mayor Mattie Parker
City of Fort Worth
…at her State of the City address last week, via NBC DFW

Fort Worth’s film economy is ready for its close-up.…

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Patented: SightGlass Vision’s Lenses to Reduce Myopia Progression and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:17:45 +0000

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Beyond Dallas-based SightGlass Vision, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

Advanced Neuromodulation Systems’ implantable medical device (IMD) with code path metrics
ARKH’s spatially aware computing hub and environment
Bank of America’s multifactor authentication via bifurcated passcode and non-fungible token
Capital One Services’ “jailed” environment restricting programmatic access to multi-tenant data
Dr Pepper/Seven Up’s bottle
Halliburton Energy Services’ robotic system for continuous circulation for a drilling operation
Kubota’s riding mower
Microsoft Technology Licensing’s lobby chat with external anonymous guests
Northrop Grumman’s spacecraft servicing devices and related assemblies, systems, and methods
The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security’s pseudo narcotic training device
Toyota’s systems and methods for active road surface maintenance with cloud-based mobility digital twin
USAA’s static structure with laser system for neutralizing embers
Verizon’s systems and methods for dynamic asset tokens on a distributed ledger

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The Last Word: ENO8 Founder on Why Abe Lincoln Had the Best AI Advice

Dallas Innovates | Staff Report — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:07:12 +0000

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“One of the most accurate quotes I’ve heard about AI comes from the 19th century and concerns logging. Seriously.”

Jeff Francis
Founder
ENO8
…on the power of preparation in the age of AI—and solid advice from Abe Lincoln, via LinkedIn.…

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