There were approximately 50,000 patents granted per year over this time period. For a total of 450,000.
It is unrealistic to have itemised them all here.
As of 2010, General Electric (GE) has 1,222 patents. Aside from this, they have filed 37, 268 patents in the US.
There were 173 executions in the US between 1970 and 1979.
64,000
Thomas Edison was granted 1093 US Patents - a record that has yet to be broken by a single individual. He also held a couple hundred foreign patents in the UK, France, and Germany. This goes without mentioning the 500-800 denied US applications he filed as well as other inventions he may never have had sought protection for.
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99,220, including utility patents, plant patents, design patents, and reissues.
You can search the US Patent Office's website for patents dating back to the mid 1970's. http://patft.uspto.gov/
The USPTO granted a total of 247,727 patents from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011, including Reissue Patents, Plant Patents, Design Patents, and Utility Patents.
ALL US patents expire within a timeframe.
U.S. patents are only effective in the United States, its territories, and its possessions
The US Patent Office issued 99,200 total patents from 1 January 1990 to 31 December 1990, including 9 reissue patents, 6 plant patents, 194 design patents, and 98,991 utility patents.
Kia Silverbrook. Silverbrook is listed as an inventor on 3123 issued US utility patents.