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Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute , the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology , and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center .
Notable past and present Charles R. Drew University faculty members include Patricia Bath, an ophthalmologist and the first black female doctor to receive a medical patent, for inventing a laser treatment for cataracts [60] and Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a pioneer in addressing youth violence as a public health issue and the first woman ...
Patricia Bath: 1968 (Medicine) ophthalmologist; first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger: 1914 prominent Pittsburgh architect of the early 20th century David Blackwell: faculty, not alumnus first African American elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Beth A. Brown ...
In 2014, Espacenet, Patentscope and Depatisnet were the main multinational patent databases offered by patent authorities which are available to the public free of charge. [6] Chemical search was made available in 2016, allowing non-chemists to also search for chemical information. [2]
Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) is an online service provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to allow users to see the prosecution histories of United States patents and patent applications and obtain copies of documents filed therein. There are two services: Public PAIR, which allows the general public to ...
This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]
The Lens, formerly called Patent Lens, is a free searcheable online patent and scholarly literature database, provided by Cambia, an Australia-based non-profit organization. The Lens is an agglomeration database, that takes bibliometric data from other databases (such as Crossref, PubMed, Microsoft Academic and Open Alex) and combines them into ...