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USPTO: 10 Millionth Patent Represents ‘Continuum of Human Accomplishment’

2018/06/22

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday issued its ten millionth patent, for a laser detection system.
The patent, called “Coherent ladar using intra-pixel quadrature detection”, was granted to technology and innovation company?Raytheon?and was invented by Raytheon principal engineering fellow Joseph Marron.
Bob Stembridge, marketing communications manager, IP and standards at?Clarivate Analytics, told?WIPR?that there was a 120-year wait between the first and the one millionth patent being issued.?Stembridge predicted that the grant of the 11 millionth patent may be expected in June 2021.
Matt Troyer, director of patent analytics at IP management software company?Anaqua, said that the USPTO had missed an opportunity.
Troyer had predicted that the ten millionth patent would relate to communications technology and be created by a female inventor.
Source: worldipreview

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