New USPTO Study Finds Women’s Participation in Patenting Associated With Substantial Economic Value

Excerpt:  “The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) shared a new article published in the journal,  Nature Biotechnology.  The article, titled, ‘Discovering value: Women’s participation in university and commercial artificial intelligence (AI) invention,’  uses the AI Patent Dataset and information on inventors’ genders available via PatentsView to study women’s participation in the AI innovation ecosystem. The article shows that women’s participation in patenting—both in AI and other technologies—is growing and associated with more diverse teams and patents with higher economic value.”