This is unchanged from the week before. Patents included a conductive cooling for small form-factor pluggable (sfp) fiber optic transceivers.
The earliest patent filed which was granted in the week ending Aug. 15 belonged to Washington State University who filed in Feb. 24, 2017.
The number of approved patents in the U.S. grew steadily from roughly 225,000 in 2009 to more than 285,000 in 2019. The number of patents approved suffered a slight downturn in 2020.
Gene Quinn with IPWatchdog said the system underneath patents have become unwieldy, specifically for medical innovations.
Patents granted in Pullman in the week ending Aug. 15
| Applicant Name | Filing Date | Granted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | 03/21/2019 | 08/10/2021 |
| Washington State University | 02/24/2017 | 08/10/2021 |
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