“It is the outsiders, the innovators and creative minds who found the startups and take on huge risks, while investing enormous time and money to bring the next step to the market…. But the patent ...

What motivates the world’s greatest inventors? How do they commercialize their groundbreaking technologies? There is so much to learn from geniuses like Dr. Gary Michelson, one of the most prolific ...

You know who I am thankful for this Thanksgiving season? Inventors. I have a huge amount of admiration for people who can see a problem and then come up with a solution, beginning with the wheel. I ...

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Inventors of LCDs, USB, nanotechnology, pyrosequencing, furniture doors and train wheels were recognised at the EPO European Inventor Award 2013 held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands this week. The ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by ...

There are certain inventors throughout history that we have all heard of, and these are people that have truly changed the world and made a huge difference to our lives. Without the genius if these ...

One of 50 rooms in the Colonial Revival mansion in Rochester, New York, where George Eastman lived for 27 years. Wikipedia It’s hard to predict where inspiration will strike, but studies have shown ...