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Patents related to this work have been filed with The Research Foundation for the State University of New York.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024

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 good for 20 years after an application is filed.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2023

In 1861, though declining to extend the patent for the reaper, the Commissioner of Patents, D.P.

From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre