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KidStrong began franchising in 2019 and now has 184 centers with more than 85,000 members across the U.S. and Canada. The company has another 320+ franchise locations in development across 33 states, making it one of the fastest-growing franchise brands in the country.
A newly patented IBM technology authenticates access to a system by using "a simulated state of a digital twin" to derive a password — in one example, using a vehicle's operational data such as its odometer reading. Mansfield inventor Jian Wu is named on the patent. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12561425-B2, Fig. 4; Aleksei Cheremisinov/istockphoto; DI Studio]