George Washinton Carver was a black American. He invented peanut butter.
Elijah McCoy had 57 patents, but since race is not noted on patent applications, there may well be others who have surpassed him.
A leadholder-type pencil that the company called the "Stop Gauge" Pencil. There were 2 patents in 1879: number 213,569, issued on March 25, and number 215,521, issued on May 20. Both were issued to Joseph Hoffman.
1093! - The largest number held by any one person at that time. Today, there are dozens of companies that get more than that number of patents issued in the USA in a single year. Many of Edison' patents were invalid because he stole the ideas, including all of his so-called "light bulb patents", which were stripped by the patent office in 1893.
There are a considerable number of patents issued for extending the life of light bulbs; the first appears to be Ole Nillson's "Lamp Life Extender," number 4229680, issued in 1980. Improvements, however, started before the 1890s, well before Edison was stripped of all of his stolen light-bulb patents in 1893.
Thomas Edison was a well respected scientist with over 1000 patents, exact number would be 1093
The first of Patricia Bath's four patents related to the Laserphaco Probe was Number 4744360, issued May 17, 1988.
US Patents are issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Their home page list two search engines. One that lets you search for patents that have been issued, and one that lets you search for patents whose applications are pending. http://patft.uspto.gov/ A number of Patent related web sites provide links to Patent Offices in other countries. Try http://www.irossco.com/patentsearching.htm as one example. Please note that many individuals or companies register their patents with the USPTO in addition to multiple jurisdictions to gain "global coverage".
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The majority of issued SMAs are written for use by accounting practitioners. This perspective is consistent with the fact that the greatest number of statements issued to date have been in the Practices and Techniques category.
A patent number will not identify the object but only some feature that was new and different enough for a company to get exclusive rights to use it after obtaining a patent. Patent numbers are issued chronologically and you can easily determine the EARLIEST year something could have been manufactured using that patent number. The uspto.gov website has lists and databases to help with that, or similar lists for patents issued in other countries. A patented invention may have been used on several models by that company and it could have sold the right to use this feature to other companies, so the same number could be on hundreds of thousands of items manufactured after the patent was issued. Many companies are still using patents issued in the 1890's on items made today. Of all the things marked on an item, the patent number is probably the least useful to identify the model or manufacturer. Now, if it were a SERIAL number and you can tell us what manufacturer's name and model number are on the item, someone may be able to give you a year of manufacture.
how do i find out if i have been issued a ptan number.
Which number is greatest?0.0990.2920.3810.413
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