Frank Sprague, the engineer and inventor who is considered “The Father of Electric Traction,” is the subject of a new biography co-authored by William Middleton III, professor of ...

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 ...

More women around the world are patenting their inventions. That’s what the World Intellectual Property Organization reported earlier this year on World IP Day. Of the 243,500 international patent ...

Black women remain resilient and continue to offer creative, impactful inventions. Black women are innovators, coming up with great inventions that have transformed many sectors like health care and ...

Breakthrough inventions are most likely to emerge when knowledge categories are blurred. Research by Gianluca Carnabuci, ...

Necessity is the father of invention, but where is its mother? According to a new study published in Science, fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies ...

“In some countries, for inventions made by employees in the course of their employment, it is critical to ask (1) who owns the invention—the employer or employee?—and (2) Is an employee entitled to ...

Among the farmers, lawyers and career politicians on Capitol Hill, there’s also a smaller, more exclusive club: the inventors. A handful of lawmakers are responsible for contraptions as varied as a ...