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Independent Inventors By State By Year
All Patent Types Report
December 2006
JANUARY 1977 -- DECEMBER 2006

COUNTS DISTRIBUTED BY CALENDAR YEAR OF GRANT

Independent Inventors By State By Year
All Patent Types Report
December 2006
Patents Granted: 1977 - 2006
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


Description of the Report

An independent inventor (also called an individual inventor), for purposes of this report, is a person whose patent, at the time of grant, has ownership that is unassigned or assigned to an individual (i.e., ownership of the patent is not assigned to an organization).

The counts in this table represent the number of times inventors from particular states are named on unassigned patents or on patents assigned to individuals. If a patent has more than one inventor, each inventor is counted according to his or her state of residence at the time of patent grant. If an inventor has more than one patent, he or she is counted once for each patent.

This report counts the number of times inventors from particular states are named on documents of the following type(s):
utility patents (i.e., 'patents for invention'), design patents, plant patents, reissue patents, statutory invention registrations, defensive publications
granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during the period JANUARY 1977 -- DECEMBER 2006. Counts of patent grants are broken out by calendar year.

The source of the data used for this report is the TAF database maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


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Number of Independent Inventors, as Distributed by Year of Grant of Patent(s) Received
Breakout by U.S. State

The counts in this report represent the number of times inventors from particular states are named on unassigned patents or on patents assigned to individuals. If the patent has more than one inventor, each inventor is counted according to his or her state of residence at the time of patent grant. If an inventor has more than one patent he or she is counted once for each patent.
Counted patents are broken out by calendar year and are those granted: JANUARY 1977 -- DECEMBER 2006
State Code State Name PRE_1990 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Total
AL ALABAMA 1257 160 174 133 142 150 160 183 160 206 237 209 246 207 213 171 148 168 4324
AK ALASKA 227 27 44 39 52 43 30 52 52 65 60 42 48 47 41 37 39 41 986
AZ ARIZONA 3468 364 407 387 377 393 445 413 417 569 491 526 500 472 463 425 357 418 10892
AR ARKANSAS 697 98 96 76 78 97 93 103 87 83 112 102 110 96 100 80 81 93 2282
CA CALIFORNIA 34625 3363 3812 3774 3784 3833 3991 4437 4160 5325 5264 5215 5062 4828 4819 4306 3556 4635 108789
CO COLORADO 3199 377 386 452 472 474 445 538 438 564 541 540 487 517 449 418 325 425 11047
CT CONNECTICUT 3377 379 436 354 414 405 406 362 346 528 523 438 444 372 398 298 253 424 10157
DE DELAWARE 361 41 50 38 57 49 58 72 40 46 53 53 65 67 59 63 60 54 1286
FL FLORIDA 9111 1047 1109 1170 1144 1199 1305 1447 1404 1719 1749 1725 1590 1466 1575 1452 1233 1379 32824
GA GEORGIA 2384 324 329 342 374 375 401 426 353 537 507 522 548 473 424 359 366 440 9484
HI HAWAII 475 83 71 61 87 73 64 70 76 70 70 76 87 51 54 52 45 69 1634
ID IDAHO 795 124 98 107 105 113 108 112 125 113 162 173 163 149 159 122 87 151 2966
IL ILLINOIS 8744 772 861 794 893 840 998 973 870 1206 1083 1110 978 896 859 767 670 785 24099
IN INDIANA 2918 256 297 245 266 269 284 310 290 343 384 430 353 336 346 282 234 279 8122
IA IOWA 1654 140 153 162 134 160 162 128 150 226 197 173 191 124 134 128 112 141 4269
KS KANSAS 1518 148 151 160 124 156 128 150 141 161 210 201 155 171 175 145 118 115 4127
KY KENTUCKY 1062 106 146 110 102 135 146 124 129 151 161 133 151 141 141 114 85 101 3238
LA LOUISIANA 2210 274 264 280 282 243 244 283 260 341 334 381 344 317 252 229 196 201 6935
ME MAINE 485 51 40 74 83 89 88 69 53 76 74 82 70 70 53 50 48 56 1611
MD MARYLAND 3704 305 367 423 387 428 463 429 485 545 550 482 468 416 363 351 280 365 10811
MA MASSACHUSETTS 5233 512 496 532 584 601 615 660 663 870 793 832 733 691 748 561 467 634 16225
MI MICHIGAN 7827 776 855 807 801 904 839 845 741 893 1038 974 882 868 802 717 611 699 21879
MN MINNESOTA 3738 425 468 435 421 399 436 428 461 655 474 592 538 514 569 468 382 537 11940
MS MISSISSIPPI 548 87 77 88 100 112 75 92 99 102 141 107 102 84 88 77 57 48 2084
MO MISSOURI 2541 269 301 315 249 308 313 313 393 441 416 403 344 420 325 239 262 226 8078
MT MONTANA 702 76 86 101 100 73 120 108 83 110 94 105 87 88 53 54 58 55 2153
NE NEBRASKA 1040 93 96 107 104 117 113 86 90 104 92 113 97 82 106 80 85 81 2686
NV NEVADA 972 98 170 133 156 166 161 172 161 245 279 307 293 252 275 200 215 225 4480
NH NEW HAMPSHIRE 741 122 103 111 104 148 154 164 135 131 165 150 147 121 135 123 108 118 2980
NJ NEW JERSEY 7374 616 704 668 797 739 713 836 839 1122 1024 943 868 730 734 740 602 679 20728
NM NEW MEXICO 884 83 94 126 134 117 130 122 126 121 139 135 135 120 103 105 69 97 2840
NY NEW YORK 14661 1489 1520 1375 1520 1504 1608 1628 1456 1979 1802 1773 1585 1555 1358 1349 1116 1251 40529
NC NORTH CAROLINA 2672 290 366 316 367 375 387 428 461 489 520 547 583 526 498 451 330 358 9964
ND NORTH DAKOTA 396 32 41 45 50 48 47 49 37 42 47 57 61 49 25 33 39 39 1137
OH OHIO 6750 645 680 684 664 692 708 669 672 844 936 814 791 791 772 667 545 673 18997
OK OKLAHOMA 2451 296 280 280 294 243 230 228 192 206 196 225 195 193 203 152 125 171 6160
OR OREGON 2900 299 299 257 332 281 315 352 312 384 384 366 421 392 336 332 280 326 8568
PA PENNSYLVANIA 6903 725 711 721 780 849 794 890 776 1163 1091 1011 900 840 804 708 581 718 20965
RI RHODE ISLAND 684 57 85 83 90 86 87 95 105 91 81 82 65 62 81 63 65 80 2042
SC SOUTH CAROLINA 1286 153 156 215 195 199 161 217 156 261 236 246 236 237 198 195 169 196 4712
SD SOUTH DAKOTA 299 33 26 35 44 37 36 27 41 32 47 50 47 43 33 38 31 39 938
TN TENNESSEE 1873 228 239 264 245 221 231 274 252 337 373 327 292 296 281 257 181 253 6424
TX TEXAS 9460 1119 1175 1142 1164 1244 1265 1370 1163 1564 1572 1608 1490 1314 1239 1144 1050 1168 31251
UT UTAH 1566 178 219 202 258 240 230 245 224 322 287 286 287 292 233 237 195 229 5730
VT VERMONT 322 51 34 55 62 78 68 82 84 67 69 63 76 38 38 43 36 58 1324
VA VIRGINIA 2976 369 401 359 359 362 393 389 349 500 485 496 519 449 470 354 329 401 9960
WA WASHINGTON 3710 433 507 385 464 500 463 485 467 577 485 553 538 503 530 457 363 499 11919
WV WEST VIRGINIA 495 51 44 50 40 63 60 54 54 66 63 56 49 48 41 51 33 58 1376
WI WISCONSIN 2758 326 359 325 310 307 355 380 342 457 484 501 470 405 362 378 274 323 9116
WY WYOMING 321 32 41 27 35 52 71 34 37 37 44 48 43 32 49 33 29 33 998
DC DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 480 32 32 41 39 35 41 28 35 56 43 37 38 29 12 26 16 17 1037
GU GUAM 6 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 2 6 2 0 0 0 0 33
PR PUERTO RICO 180 16 14 12 11 16 13 12 13 13 25 29 11 11 18 11 16 20 441
AS U.S. PACIFIC IS. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
US UNITED STATES 0 0 3 11 4 4 1 5 4 2 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 45
VI VIRGIN (U.S.) ISLANDS 26 2 2 1 2 2 3 2 1 2 1 3 3 1 4 2 4 1 62
ALL ALL STATES 177047 18452 19976 19489 20237 20647 21257 22452 21063 27163 26697 26455 24993 23294 22600 20194 17018 20652 549686


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