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Todd Hopfinger, Lestin Kenton, Jr. What happened. On November 26, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new inventorship guidance (formally published on November 28) clarifying how ...

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In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that ...