Numbers and Charts
FedInvent Portfolio Patent Applications for Thursday, February 17, 2022
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Today's newsletter will be short and to the point. We recap the numbers and provide the charts showing the breakdown of Thursday's pre-grant patent applications that benefitted from taxpayer funding.
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Patent Applications By The Numbers
On Thursday, February 17, 2022, the US Patent Office published 6,838 pre-grant patent applications. One hundred thirty (130) benefitted from taxpayer funding. Here is how those patent applications break down.
One hundred twenty-four (124) patent applications have Government Interest Statements.
Nineteen (19) applications have an applicant or an assignee that is a government agency.
A federal department is the only assignee on ten patent applications.
The 130 new patents have 141 department-level funding citations.
These patents are the work of 405 inventors.
The 396 American inventors come from 37 states and the District of Columbia.
The nine (9) foreign inventors come from six (4) countries.
There are 82 patents (63%) where at least one assignee is a college or university, the HERD.
Six patent applications (6) resulted from the collaboration between two universities.
Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) received 19 patents.
One patent application is assigned a Y CPC symbol indicating that the invention may be useful in mitigating the impact of climate change.
There Bayh-is one Dole scofflaws this week, California Institute of Technology. The inventors work for the Jet Propulsion Lab.
The Big Three States
California held the number one position. Massachusetts is back in the number two slot. On Thursday, the third-place position went to Illinois.
California has 26 first-named inventors and 75 total inventors.
Massachusetts has 23 first-named inventors and 83 total inventors.
Illinois has eight (8) first-named inventors and 22 total inventors
Count By Department
The Health Complex
The Health Complex covers all of the patent applications received by the Department of Health and Human Services including the National Institutes of Health.
The Health Complex Year-To-Date
We'll be back later this week when the next group of taxpayer-funded patents is released. In the meantime, enjoy your week.
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The FedInvent Team
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