Inventing a new product feels amazing. You start to envision people using your invention. You imagine it being sold on store shelves, maybe even TV. You’ve never seen anything like it, you think. Why ...

Consider all of the innovations that went into something as simple as your breakfast: the flakes of cereal in your bowl, the ceramic burr grinder that macerated your coffee beans, the toaster that ...

For years, Big Tech has tried to cast itself as the victim of an unfair patent system, claiming that startups and smaller ...

Invention is rarely a straight line from idea to end product. More often, it is a circuitous route that involves iteration and failure. For inventors, however, finding solutions to societal problems ...

Larissa Behrendt receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Ian J. McNiven receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sean Ulm receives funding from the Australian Research ...

If you had to name an inventor, would it be a woman? Like their male counterparts, women inventors represent all segments of American society, but their stories are often overlooked or undervalued.

Brigham Young University was just ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the nation for most issued patents. But the new ranking from the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) isn’t the story for ...