Autodesk, maker of CAD programs AutoCAD, 3DS Max and Maya, has announced a new addition to its family of products: Autodesk Inventor Fusion. It is an amazing “prosumer” extension to their line and you ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it is creating a new proceeding designed to ensure the first person to file a patent application is actually the true ...

A San Antonio inventor is getting his 15 minutes of fame Friday night as he make's an appearance on the ABC TV show "Shark Tank." Inventor Mark Sullivan was chosen from over 24,000 applicants to pitch ...

In September 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law. Under one of the most important provisions of the AIA, the longstanding first-to-invent patent system will be replaced ...

Lifetime Brands, Inc. will host its first-annual Inventor Open House on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at the company’s headquarters in Garden City, NY, just outside New York City and only 20 miles from both ...

Autodesk's official release of Inventor Fusion has arrived on the Mac App Store, after several months as a technology preview. Inventor Fusion is software that enables advanced 3D mechanical design.

MOSHAV AHITUV, Israel — A bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard has the potential to change transportation habits from the world’s most congested cities to the poorest reaches of Africa, its ...

Rob Cordery spends much of his time thinking up ways to prevent forgery. Take the markings that are stamped near the top of a letter or package. Those markings contain specific information including ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector of commerce worldwide, has ...

In my experience, inventors aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. These people need to find each other, and can jointly make a ...

When Apple forced its mobile software leader Scott Forstall out of the company, it pushed out the most prolific inventor at the company, as measured by recent patent filings. Forstall's name is on 166 ...