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Northwestern Engineering’s Zdeněk Bažant and Omar Farha have been named 2025 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors ...

The Federal government is accelerating AI‑enabled innovation by launching the Genesis Mission, a sweeping national initiative ...

USPTO issues new guidelines on patenting AI-assisted inventions, reaffirming that only humans can be legal inventors.

Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations from ...

New USPTO rules confirm that AI can support the invention process, but only humans can legally claim inventorship under U.S. patent law.

Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.) To assemble our list of 2021’s Best Inventions, we solicited ...

As we prepare for celebrating America's Independence tomorrow, it's worth taking a few minutes to think about the men and women who helped fight for American Independence and to build this nation. In ...