May 14, 2024, Weekly Patents Insights

Welcome to the 14th of May 2024: A glimpse at what’s new in weekly patents insights on recent patent grants that have been issued across various industries.

New weekly (May 14, 2024) USPTO Patents data have been added.

Patent Volume was 6,733 for the week, including 5,760 Utility, 963 Design, and 10 Plant Patents.

Most Prolific

Company	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd	101 patents
Patent Attorney	Fish & Richardson, P.C.	103 patents
City	Tokyo, JP	296 patents
Female Inventor	Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA	8 patents
Inventor	Tao Luo, San Diego, CA	17 patents

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Trivia

Since 1976, 5.5 Million Inventors have been granted a USPTO patent. What percent of Inventors have one patent?

a) 10%

b) 30%

c) 50%

d) 70%

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

Today in Patent History

On May 14, 1985, Transformers, a reconfigurable toy assembly.

Featured Inventor

John Sylvan is credited with creating the K-Cup coffee pod in the ’90s, an object that has made quite the presence within households around the world ever since. He left the company in 1997, selling his product ownership for $50,000.

Weekly Statistics

Top Inventors:

1. Tao Luo, 17 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
2. Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, 10 patents – Al-Ahsa, SA
3. Kapil Gulati, 9 patents – Belle Mead, NJ (US)
4. Antar Ahmed Abdelhamid Ahmed, 8 patents – Sohag, EG
5. Xiaoxia Zhang, 8 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
6. Peter S Gaal, 8 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
7. Yoshikazu Yamada, 7 patents – Tokyo, JP
8. Peng Lip Goh, 7 patents – Singapore, SG
9. Mostafa Khoshnevisan, 7 patents – San Diego, CA (US)

Top Universities:

1. King Faisal University – 23
2. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals – 12
3. Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University – 7
4. The Regents of the University of California – 7
5. President and Fellows of Harvard College – 6
6. Board of Regents, the University of Texas System – 4
7. Zhejiang University – 4
8. The Regents of the University of Michigan – 4
9. Korea University Research and Business Foundation – 4
10. Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. – 3

Top Cities in  Spain:

Please feel free to suggest any country/state/region here

1. Barcelona – 4
2. Madrid – 4
3. Altea – 3
4. Sant Cugat del Valles – 3
5. Elche – 2
6. Valladolid – 2

Top Cities in Washington (US):

1. Seattle – 67
2. Bellevue – 38
3. Redmond – 38
4. Bothell – 16
5. Kirkland – 15
6. Sammamish – 14
7. Woodinville – 10
8. Mercer Island – 10
9. Vancouver – 9
10. Issaquah – 9

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Suggestions

Technology Trends by Keyword

• covid – First mention 2020-07-09 in the patent-application 20200214649; Growth Rate: 251%; In all, there are 279 patents (1,034 patent-applications) with this keyword.
• psilocybin – First mention 2018-01-25 in the patent-application 20180021326; Growth Rate: 242%; In all, there are 35 (77 patent-applications) patents with this keyword.

• bitcoin – First mention 2015-07-30 in the patent-application 20150209678; In all, there are 113 (131 patent-applications) patents with this keyword.
• ethereum – First mention 2018-03-22 in the patent-application 20180082267; In all, there are 12 (32 patent-applications) patents with this keyword.
• cryptography – First mention 1983-08-16 in the patent 4399323; Growth Rate: 12%; In all, there are 1,399 patents with this keyword.
• blockchain network – First mention 2018-01-16 in the patent 9870508; Growth Rate: 21%; In all, there are 1,004 patents with this keyword.
• smart contract – First mention 2018-01-16 in the patent 9870508; Growth Rate: 25%; In all, there are 861 patents with this keyword.

• memory bit-cell – First mention 2015-09-08 in the patent 9129831; Growth Rate: 192%; In all, there are 59 patents with this keyword.
• semantic engine – First mention 2008-05-20 in the patent 7376645; Growth Rate: 192%; In all, there are 68 patents with this keyword.
• warehouse robot – First mention 2020-01-07 in the patent 10525604; Growth Rate: 188%; In all, there are 38 patents with this keyword.
• non-terrestrial network – First mention 2016-11-22 in the patent 9503956; Growth Rate: 139%; In all, there are 100 patents with this keyword.

_{Where Growth Rate – Compound Annual Growth Rate over a three-year period}

Trivia

The answer is:

c) 50%, see more details