U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Report Where are U.S. Women Patentees? Assessing Three Decades of Growth

Excerpt:  “The United States Patent and Trademark Office today released a new report, titled ‘Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth.’ The report examines women’s patenting by U.S. counties from 1990 through 2019. It identifies counties with the most women-patentees by technology field and assesses three decades of growth. The report delves deeper into the characteristics of those county economic environments to identify factors correlated with women’s participation in patenting. Over the 30-year period from 1990 through 2019, women inventors patented in 411 new counties, an increase of 32% in the number of counties where women patent.”