This is three more than the week before. Patents included an optical character recognition (ocr) and coded data for legacy instrument data transfer.
The earliest patent filed which was granted in the week ending Aug. 22 belonged to Hach Company who filed in Oct. 26, 2015.
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 Loveland in the week ending Aug. 22
Applicant Name | Filing Date | Granted Date |
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Hach Company | 10/26/2015 | 08/17/2021 |
John Karspeck | 03/19/2018 | 08/17/2021 |
Novum Patent Holdco, LLC | 12/30/2019 | 08/17/2021 |