The Women Inventors’ Rate — the share of inventors who are women — is a paltry 13%, according to the U.S. Patent & Trade Office. Most of the time, the dearth of women inventors in the United States is ...

The advance by women in this respect was particularly marked in 1925, as is shown by the number of applications for patents ...

A new study by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has revealed an increase in the number of women participating in international patent filings. In the last 20 years, researchers ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Though only about one in five patents nationally has at least one female inventor attached, that figure is nearly 50% at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and "that really ...

A company that aims to leverage artificial intelligence to diagnose conditions, like strep throat, won Johns Hopkins‘ “Pitch It On!” competition on Tuesday. Now in its second year, the contest, which ...

Ambition is ageless and here to prove it are three young women who represent thousands of young inventors. They have big ideas that could help solve some serious and some not-so-serious problems.

Women have been innovators throughout history, but their role in the field of invention has been, to a great extent, unacknowledged or uncredited. Often their ideas were claimed by men, frequently ...

“If you had to name an inventor, would it be a woman?” This is the challenge question that visitors to the in-person and online photographic display, “Picturing Women Inventors” face. On-site at the ...

Aug 30, 2023, 9:41am EDT Updated: Sep 29, 2023, 1:02am EDT Getty Images (AzmanJaka) Some problems lie in the Ph.D. process, a new study found. Female doctoral students in STEM fields are less likely ...

In Microsoft's video, young girls are asked to name inventors. The usual suspects come up – Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell – but when they’re asked to rattle off some women ...