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DN and Blitzer are listed as inventors on US Patents 1177684, 11597715, and 11135207 licensed to Centaurus Therapeutics, Inc.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

Zorina Khan, author of “Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes and the Knowledge Economy,” said in an email that her research found “that prize systems tend to be arbitrary and inefficient.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Brown’s invention has been cited 36 times by other patent applicants, including as recently as 2013, according to Google Patents.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

Patents are one area where governments could be more aggressive about using their clout.

From New York Times • May 3, 2021

The model he then made is now in the museum of the Commissioner of Patents, London.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry