Helen Blanchard's zigzag sewing patent was a fundamental breakthrough which continues to be widely used, over 120-years after its invention In the 1800s, American women could not vote and many of them ...

Sources at Lenovo, Western Digital, BD and Pure Storage reveal the strategies that have worked best to increase representation of women on their companies’ patents A fascinating new exhibit run by ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Though only about one in five patents nationally has at least one female inventor attached, that figure is nearly 50% at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and "that really ...

A newly published study shows that patented biomedical inventions in the U.S. created by women are 35% more likely to benefit women’s health than biomedical inventions created by men, who tend to ...

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A new study by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has revealed an increase in the number of women participating in international patent filings. In the last 20 years, researchers ...

“I’m not surprised at what I’ve done. I’m only sorry I couldn’t have had as good a chance as a boy and have been put to my trade regularly.” Margaret Knight, 19 th Century American Inventor ...

Engineer Marian Croak (left) and ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath (right) are the first Black women to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in its nearly 50-year history. The National ...