April 30, 2024, Weekly Patents Insights

Welcome to the 30th of April 2024: A glimpse at what’s new in weekly patents insights on recent patent grants that have been issued across various industries.

New weekly (Apr 30, 2024) USPTO Patents data have been added.

Trivia

1. What was the first patented invention in the United States, and who was the inventor?

2. In what year was the first computer patent issued, and what was the invention?

_{Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.}

Today in Patent History

On April 30, 1796, Samuel Lee Jr. of Windham, Connecticut, received a Letters Patent for his composition of bilious pills — a patent medicine that eventually became known as “Dr. Lee’s Windham Bilious Pills.” Lee’s patent was the first American patent for a pill of any kind as well as the first in its patent class.

Inventor Stories

Weekly Statistics

Top Inventors:

1. Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, 32 patents – Al-Ahsa, SA
2. Mai Mostafa Khalaf Ali, 31 patents – Al-Ahsa, SA
3. Antar Ahmed Abdelhamid Ahmed, 22 patents – Sohag, EG
4. Emilia Ciardi, 15 patents – Lavena Ponte Tresa, IT
5. Jorgen Johnson, 15 patents – Las Vegas, NV (US)
6. Allan Snippen, 15 patents – Reno, NV (US)
7. Matthew Tarbox, 15 patents – Reno, NV (US)
8. Tamer Uz, 15 patents – Reno, NV (US)
9. Amer A. Amer, 14 patents – Sohag, EG
10. Tao Luo, 14 patents – San Diego, CA (US)

Top Universities:

1. King Faisal University – 46  
2. The Regents of the University of California – 9  
3. Board of Regents of the University of Texas System – 8  
4. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – 6  
5. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals – 5  
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 5  
7. President and Fellows of Harvard College – 4  
8. Zhejiang University – 4
9. Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University – 4  
10. Tsinghua University – 4

Top Cities in Austria:

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1. Vienna – 14
2. Graz – 4
3. Villach – 4
4. Linz – 3
5. Innsbruck – 2
6. Roßleithen – 2
7. Dornbirn – 2
8. Klagenfurt – 2

Top Cities in Michigan (US):

1. Ann Arbor – 17
2. Novi – 14
3. Holland – 10
4. Troy – 9
5. Canton – 9
6. Zeeland – 7
7. Birmingham – 6
8. Traverse City – 6
9. Detroit – 6
10. Rochester Hills – 6
11. Bloomfield Hills – 6
12. Northville – 6

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Trivia

The answer is:

1. The first U.S. patent was granted to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for an improvement in the making of Potash.

2. The first computer patent was issued in 1946 for the ENIAC, which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.