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First African-American female physician to receive a patent for a medical invention; inventions relate to cataract surgery and include the Laserphaco Probe, which revolutionized the industry in the 1980s, and an ultrasound technique for treatment [19] [20] [21] Beard, Andrew: 1849–1921
List of Indian inventions and discoveries; List of Indonesian inventions and discoveries; List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilisation; List of inventions named after people; List of inventors killed by their own invention; Timeline of Irish inventions and discoveries; List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
Only utility patents (or the international equivalent) are listed, as a utility patent is a patent for an invention. Not all patents are for inventions. Other patent types include: design patents for the ornamental design of an object; plant patents for plant varieties; and reissue patents, where a
The earliest patent resembling the modern Segway PT, U.S. patent #6,357,544, was filed on May 27, 1994 and issued to Dean Kamen on December 30, 1997. [12] Kamen introduced his invention to the public in 2001. [13] 1994 Quantum-cascade laser. A quantum cascade laser is a sliver of semiconductor material about the size of a tick.
Rebecca "Becky" Schroeder (born 1962) is an American inventor and one of the youngest females to be granted a U.S. patent at the age of 12. [1] At the age of 10, she conceived the idea of a luminescent backing sheet that would enable writing in the dark. This innovation led to her receiving U.S. Patent 3,832,556 on August 27, 1974. [2]
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The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.