Patents Issued Statistics

US Patents

2011
Total patents granted 247,713

2010
Total patents granted : 244,341

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm

inventions - 2012

Collection will include items in news in 2012

Google's Virtual Reality Goggles
Lytro's Lightfield Camera
Mocrosoft Windows 8
Tweel

Inventions - Up to 1900

• 1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant  Article on artificial teeth http://www.noeliaanderson.com/123-artificial-teeth/

• 1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney

• 1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner
• 1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder

• 1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard
• 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens
• 1802: Gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler
• 1804: Locomotive: Richard Trevithick
• 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton
• 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton
• 1808: Band saw: William Newberry

• 1809: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy
• 1814: Steam Locomotive (Blücher): George Stephenson
• 1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy
• 1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling
• 1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
• 1816: The Bicycle

• 1817: Draisine or velocipede (two-wheeled): Karl Drais
• 1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster
• 1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday
• 1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon
• 1824: Portland cement: William Aspdin

• 1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
• 1826: Internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey
• 1827: Friction match: John Walker

• 1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding
• 1830: Stenotype on punched paper strip: Karl Drais
• 1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry
• 1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837)
• 1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick
• 1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Ányos Jedlik
• 1834: The Hansom cab is patented
• 1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system
• 1834: Refrigerator: Jacob Perkins
• 1834: Combine harvester: Hiram Moore
• 1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt
• 1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry
• 1835: Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay
• 1836: Sewing machine: Josef Madersberger

• 1837: US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport (February 25)
• 1837: Steel plow: John Deere
• 1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe
• 1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval
• 1837: Magnetic telegraph: Samuel Morse
• 1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)
• 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe
• 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear
• 1840: Artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig

• 1842 Superphosphate fertilizer: John Bennett Lawes
• 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long
• 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber
• 1843: Fax machine (kind of like a telegraph back then): Alexander Bain
• 1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson

• 1845: Pneumatic tire: Robert Thomson (inventor)
• 1846: Sewing machine (different model): Elias Howe
• 1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe

• 1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt
• 1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis
• 1849: Telephone: Antonio Meucci
• 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard
• 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis
• 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault

• 1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen
• 1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer
• 1856: Celluloid: Alexander Parkes

• 1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne
• 1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason
• 1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake
• 1859: Lead acid battery: Gaston Plante
• 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton
• 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer
• 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Giovanni Luppis

• 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson
• 1861: Siemens regenerative furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens
• 1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling
• 1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
• 1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard
• 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux

• 1865: Roller Coaster: LaMarcus Adna Thompson
• 1865: Barbed wire: Louis Jannin
• 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel
• 1868: Practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, with assistance from
• 1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse
• 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries

• 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers
• 1870: Magic Lantern projector: Henry R. Heyl
• 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison
• 1871: Cable car (railway): Andrew S. Hallidie
• 1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour
• 1873: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney
• 1873: Modern direct current electric motor: Zénobe Gramme
• 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field
• 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony
• 1875: Magazine (firearm): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
• 1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell
• 1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler
• 1876: Loudspeaker: Alexander Graham Bell

• 1877: Stapler: Henry R. Heyl
• 1877: Induction motor: Nikola Tesla  http://nraoetkc.blogspot.in/2012/07/induction-motor-invention-nikola-tesla.html
• 1877: Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison
• 1877: Microphone: Emile Berliner
• 1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes
• 1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss
• 1879: Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton
• 1879: Cash register: James Ritty
• 1880: Photophone: Alexander Graham Bell
• 1880: Roll film: George Eastman
• 1880: Safety razor: Kampfe Brothers
• 1880: Seismograph: John Milne

• 1881: Metal detector: Alexander Graham Bell
• 1882: Electric fan: Schuyler Skaats Wheeler
• 1883: two-phase (alternating current) induction motor: Nikola Tesla
• 1884: Linotype machine: Ottmar Mergenthaler
• 1884: Fountain pen: Lewis Waterman
• 1884: Punched card accounting: Herman Hollerith
• 1884: Trolley car, (electric): Frank Sprague, Charles Van Depoele

• 1885: Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine powered): Karl Benz, first automobile put into production
• 1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim
• 1885: Motorcycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
• 1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley
• 1885: Safety bicycle: John Kemp Starley
• 1886: Dishwasher: Josephine Cochrane
• 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler
• 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell
• 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston
• 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugène Kalt and August Muller
• 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner
• 1887: Ceiling fan: Philip Diehl
• 1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.)
• 1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman
• 1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud
• 1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?)
• 1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince
. 1888: Pneumatic Tyre: John Boyd Dunlop

• 1891: escalator: Jesse W. Reno
• 1891: Thermal cracking process: Vladimir Shukhov
• 1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson
• 1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson
• 1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives
• 1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service.

• 1893: Carburetor: Donát Bánki and János Csonka
• 1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla
• 1893: Radio: Nikola Tesla
• 1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose in Bengal
• 1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel
• 1895: Radiotelegraph: Guglielmo Marconi
• 1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat
• 1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno



Sources
sitemaker.umich.edu/annarborag/files/inventions_during_presidential_terms_1-24.doc

Invention time line
http://www.inventionreaction.com/invention-timeline/

Tweel - Tyre + Wheel - Invention from Michelin

Tweel is an integrated tyre and wheel combination that does not use air and promises performance beyond that of pneumatic tyres. It is developed by Michelin and is presently being used in low weight vehicles.



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YouTube Video uploaded by YouTube Partner AutomotiveTV
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How Tweel Works?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tweel-airless-tire.htm

More about Tweel from Michelin itself
http://www.michelintweel.com/

30 October 2012
Michelin began commercial sales of Tweel for Skid-Steer loaders

Pneumatic Tyres and Tubes - Product and Manufacturing Process - History

John Boyd Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon. His son was prescribed exercise on tricycle and to make it more comfortable, he developed a canvas tube filled with air and bonded together with liquid rubber. He patented the idea. In 1889, he persuaded a cycling sportsman to use his tyres and the championship was won that cyclist. The tyres became famous and popular. Dunlop sold his patent in 1896 for 3000 pounds.

http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/johndunlop.htm
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/pneumatictire.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/makhist10_prog10e.shtml


New Concept in Tyre Tweel
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Sony Watchman

Came to know about Sony Watch through a comment by a participant in Research Methodology, Review of Research in  Management class, October 2012. Then saw it listed as one of 100 all time great inventions, Times list.

What is Sony Watch Man - A portable TV. It is similar in concept to Sony Walkman.

Learn something more about it through a YouTube Video

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YouTube video uploaded by a YouTube Partner YourGeekNeeds
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Sony Watchman idea is still being pursued by some in the market place. TV broadcasters still are supporting a mobile TV product.
http://gigaom.com/video/broadcasters-hope-to-resurrect-the-sony-watchman/

Interesting Products and Brands

Automobile
Model T
Tata Nano
Steam Engine
Steam Locomotive


Amazon Kindle
Apple iPod
Audio Highway Listen Up
Bose Noise-Canceling Headphones
Diamond Rio PMP300
Genica GN803 Tavarua
Logitech Harmony
Mattel Electronics Football
MusicGremlin Wi-Fi MP3 Player
Nintendo Game Boy
Optical Media
Panasonic DVD-L10
Regency TR-1
Sony Discman D-50
Sony Walkman TPS-L2
Sony Watchman
TiVo
Zenith Space Command



Apple AirPort
Apple iPad
Apple PowerBook 100
Asus Eee PC 700
Commodore 64
Connectix QuickCam
DiskOnKey
Engelbart Mouse
Epson HX-20
GRiD Compass 1101
Hewlett-Packard HP-65
Iomega Zip Drive
LED
Lego Mindstorms 1.0
MicroSD
MITS Altair 8800
Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100
Texas Instruments SR-10




Apple iPhone
Ballpoint Pen
Bell 103
Bellsouth IBM Simon
BlackBerry 6210
Bluetooth Headset
Danger Hiptop, a.k.a. Sidekick
Fisher AG7 Space Pen
Motorola DynaTAC 8000x
Motorola Handie-Talkie HT 220 Slimline
Motorola PageWriter 2000
Motorola Razr V3
Motorola StarTac
Novatel Wireless MiFi
Olympus Zuiko Pearlcorder
Pager
Palm Pilot 1000
PhoneMate Model 400
Samsung Uproar
Sharp J-SH04
Speak & Spell
Lifestyle
Air Taser Model 34000
Casio G-Shock DW-5000C
The Clapper
Credit Card
Dyson Air Multiplier
Energizer Alkaline Batteries
Fuzzbuster
Hamilton Pulsar
Leatherman
Lithium-Ion Batteries
Magellan NAV 1000
Spot Personal Tracker
Velcro
Zippo
Cameras
Apple QuickTake 100
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Eye-Fi
Flip
Fujifilm Quick Snap Disposable Camera
Kodak EasyShare One
Kodak Instamatic 100
Nikon F
Pentax K1000
Polaroid SX-70
Sony Betamovie BMC-100P
Sony Mavica MVC-FD5

Black & Decker Cordless Electric Drill
Clock Radio
Dirt Devil Hand Vac
Electric Razor
iRobot Roomba
Modern-Day Can Opener
Power Strip
Smoke Detector

Breathalyzer
Broxodent Electric Toothbrush
Digital Thermometer
Hearing Aids
Heart-Rate Monitor
Jarvik 7
Pacemaker
Pedometer
SteriPEN

Apple Newton
Atari Lynx
Sony LIBRIé EBR-1000EP
Archos Gmini 400
Psion MC 400


http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2023689,00.html

Ball Point Pen - Product and Manufacturing Process History

29 October Engineering Knowledge History[1]

29 October 1945 - The first ball point pen in the U.S. went on sale at Gimbels Department Stores for $12.95.


The first successful sales of ballpoint pen happened on 29 October 1945. The day before, there was a full-page ad in the New York Times announcing the first sale of ballpoint pens in the United States. On the first day of sales, Gimbels sold the entire stock of 10,000 pens-at $12.50 each.

The pens were manufactured by a Chicago salesman named Milton Reynolds.  Reynolds had seen  a ball pen (Biro’s pen)  in a stores in Argentina and speculated on its popularity in America.  Many of the patents issued on ball pens had expired by then. So Reynolds developed his ball pen without any patent protection or support.  Reynolds made a  deal with Gimbels to sell ballpoint pens.  He set up a factory with 300 workers.

The subsequent demand was unprecedented. In the first three months,  two million pens were sold through 60,000 retail outlets in the United States and 37 foreign countries, for total revenues of $5.7 million, with a net income of $1.6 million.  Gimbel’s alone sold 100,000 pens[4].


The first patent for a ball point pen was issued to John Loud in 1988 (30 October 1988). See a discussion on the concept claimed in the patent. (http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/law_trends_news_practice_area_e_newsletter_home/business_slusky.html )

Manufacturing Process
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Ballpoint-Pen.html




1. http://nraombakc.blogspot.in/2012/10/29-october-knowledge-history-science.html
2. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/ballpen.htm
3. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa101697.htm
4.Robert Sobel, When Giants Stumble: Classic Business Blunders and How to Avoid Them, Prentice-Hall Press, 1999, p.p. viii-xi

3D Printing - Introduction and Videos

A Primer on 3D Printing
Ted Talk - Video Presentation

http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html


How 3D Printing Works?
http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/visualization_laboratory/equipment/3Dprinting/files/791_8914-3DPrintingWhitePaper.pdf

3D Printing Machines

MakerBot  MAKERBOT REPLICATOR™ 2
Desktop machine
http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html

See its demonstration in a 3D Printing YouTube Video

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Video uploaded by CNETTV - YouTube Partner
uploaded Jan 2012
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Engineering Science Lectures - Sonoma State University, USA

April 5th 2012: "Circuit Simulation for Computer-Aided Design"
Dr. David Root: Agilent Research Fellow, and
Dr. Radek Biernacki: Senior Member of Technical Staff,
both IEEE Fellows

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Software Engineering - Proofs and Tests - Specifications and Use Cases.

A fundamental duality of software engineering

http://bertrandmeyer.com/2012/10/14/a-fundamental-duality-of-software-engineering/

National Science + Engineering Competition UK 2012-13

For students in age group 11 - 18 years
The Competition is open for entries from March - October each year, through either Regional Fairs or Online Applications. For the year 2012-13 The chosen Finalists are invited to showcase their work to thousands of people at The Big Bang Fair in March 2013.

There are many benefits to entering the competition, including improving your communication skills and honing your science/engineering knowledge. There are a range of fantastic prizes, including 'once in a lifetime' experiences and cash prizes.

Entries are now open for the Online Application of the Competition - applications close on 31 October 2012.

http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/nsec.cfm

YouTube Video of the final presentations in March 2012 for the last year competition

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