Revolutionary inventions from the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs like insulin and everyday innovations like Band-Aids, sliced bread, and the polygraph.

What are the arguments against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to patent inventions? Following initial surveys of the issue, in our last piece we examined the arguments in favor of machine ...

An inventor from Akron, Ohio, has developed Vendi Sports, a vending machine designed to provide convenient access to sporting ...

The publisher of America’s first fashion magazine, Lady’s Book, who gushed: “Next to the plough, [the sewing machine] is ...

All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output ...

In the patent grant proceedings for two European Patent Applications, the EPO has ruled that an AI machine cannot be named as an inventor in a Patent Application. Doing so does not comply with the ...

A number of countries have now issued decisions on whether a patent can be granted to Dr. Stephen Thaler for an invention made by a machine named DABUS. In response to a request by the United Kingdom ...

"I thought there could be a better way to collect and dispose of trash, dead animals, and other debris from roadsides and highways," said an inventor, from Pembroke, N.C., "so I invented the ROADSIDE ...

Early efforts -- Elements of a successful machine -- The "Sewing-Machine Combination" -- Less expensive machines -- Appendixes: Notes on the development and commercial use of the sewing machine -- ...

"As a farmer, I thought there could be a better way dig into soil, lift rocks, and crush them into small bits for remixing with the soil," said an inventor, from Mora, Minn., "so I invented the EZ ...

There’s a strong case to be made for allowing machines to invent other machines. We recently examined the logic and legality behind the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) gaining the ability to ...