drone delivery

Sky-High Launch: Walmart Unveils U.S.’s Largest Retail Drone Delivery Network With Dallas-Fort Worth Expansion
by | Jan 10, 2024
Powered by Wing and Zipline, Walmart's drone delivery expansion is set to reach up to 75% of residents in Dallas-Fort Worth. Its DFW footprint encompasses more than 30 local areas and sets a new benchmark for retail drone services in a single U.S. market.
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Irish Drone Delivery Startup Manna Launches in U.S. with ‘Trick-or-Treat’ Deliveries North of Fort Worth
by | Oct 31, 2023
Dublin-based Manna Drone Delivery is kicking off its U.S. commercial operations from the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone in Fort Worth. For now, it's delivering food and beverages (and yes, candy) from national and local retailers to only one North Texas neighborhood: Pecan Square by Hillwood Communities in Northlake.
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Ameriflight Makes Aviation History With FAA Approval for Large-Scale Drone Delivery Service in the U.S.
by | May 31, 2023
Dallas-based Ameriflight plans to operate the Matternet M2 drone for commercial delivery—focusing on health care and e-commerce deliveries to customers in dense urban and suburban environments across the country. The approval will enable what Ameriflight calls "the first fully operational, large-scale drone operation in the United States."
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Flytrex and Brinker Are About to Drop Wings by Drone Into DFW Back Yards

by | Mar 29, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses. The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.
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He Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft to the Moon—Now His Flytrex Drones Will Deliver Burgers to DFW Back Yards
by | Feb 1, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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Alphabet Startup and Walgreens Drone Delivery Service Takes Wing in Dallas-Fort Worth
by | Oct 20, 2021
Frisco and Little Elm are the first cities to get a new drone delivery service from Wing, a sister company of Google, and Walgreens. The partners will operate on-demand air deliveries that bring essential items straight to your door.
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Prime Air: Drone Deliveries Get Closer With Amazon Trial
by | Jun 6, 2019
It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope—it's just your Amazon order. "Within months," Amazon expects to start using drones to deliver packages. With two giant fulfillment centers announced in Dallas-Fort Worth last year, could the delivery drones be next?
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Dallas Invents: 118 Patents Granted for Week of April 30

by | May 8, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Nvidia's sound-activated control system, Shavelogic's pivoting razors, YSEOP's techniques for automatic generation of natural language text, Shooting Simulator's  method for marksmanship training, Wells Fargo's biometric electronic signature tokens, Advatect Diagnostics' compositions for detecting fungi and mycotoxins, Bell's avionics system for using a smartphone to input-output flight data, CareView Communications'  system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Moneygram's methods for providing bail and bond services via a money transfer network, and HoboLoco's foot-operated video game and virtual reality controller.
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Dallas Invents: 136 Patents Granted for Week of April 23
by | May 1, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Hammond Development's system for enabling a communication device to remotely execute an application, Amazon's technology for job processing using a public service network, University of Arkansas' new white wine grape plant named "Opportunity," Textron Innovations' takeoff/landing touchdown protection management system, Tuesday Morning's cookware lid with basting projections, Olaeris' battery status and failure detector, 3i AVI's computerized exchange network, and an unassigned patent for hair-cutting techniques for an automated hair-cutting system.
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Dallas Invents: 115 Patents Granted for Week of April 16
by | Apr 24, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's augmented reality visual Wi-Fi signal, Bank of America's autonomous software containers, Genband's method for blocking notification messages during screen sharing, Linear Labs' brushless electric motor/generator, Sabre's tokenized data security, Phazr's window-installed wireless communications device, Conduent's method for video-based detection of drive-offs and walk-offs
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of April 9
by | Apr 17, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. 
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of March 26

by | Apr 3, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Google's proximity payment system environment response; Omnitrac's management of movable objects; Raytheon's methods for acquiring, launching, and guiding missiles to multiple targets; Samsung's techniques for millimeter-wave mobile communication; Slocum Geophysics' airborne geophysical exploration;; and more.
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Dallas Invents: 87 Patents Granted for Week of March 19
by | Mar 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Capital One's asset tracking systems US Concrete's concrete with a reduced surface drying time Toyota's integrated truck bed washing system MoneyGram's promotion generation engine for a money transfer system McAfee's system for calculating an object's trust level Dr Pepper/Seven Up's sweet taste improving compositions
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Dallas Invents: 97 Patents Granted for Week of March 12
by | Mar 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Futurewei Technologies' foldable mobile device • IBM's cognitive geofencing • Lockheed Martin's aircraft laser detector • Uniloc's pedestrian traffic monitoring and analysis
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Platooning trucks create “road trains” where two or more trucks follow each other closely. Paccar’s platooning light fence system may communicate to passenger vehicles that trucks are traveling as a team to discourage cut-ins or cut-offs. [Illustration: Fig. 1, Patent No. 10220768 via USPTO. Background: Dallas Innovates.]
Dallas Invents: 148 Patents Granted for Week of March 5
by | Mar 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Toyota's vehicle bumper damage indication • Bell's aircraft with manned and unmanned flight modes • University of Texas' methods for light-dependent gene regulation • Conduent Business Services' system for optimizing passenger pick up • Amazon's system for impairment issues of distributed hosts • Paccar's platooning light fence system for trucks
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