patents

     

A patent is a set of exclusive rights grante by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.

Trivia about patents

  • The U.S. government gets over 100,000 requests a year for these documents that protect inventors
  • As of 2004, Shunpei Yamakazi of Semiconductor Energy Labs of Japan held more of these than anyone else, 3,245