About PatentDB

PatentDB profiles 106 famous patents and inventions across 11 fields of technology and six historical eras. Every entry names the inventor, the country, and the patent year, with the story of what the monopoly actually covered and what it changed. From Watt separate condenser to CRISPR gene editing, this is the legal scaffolding under modern life.

Fields

• Consumer: 15
• Transport: 15
• Medicine: 15
• Communication: 12
• Computing: 12
• Materials: 9
• Energy: 8
• Agriculture and Food: 6
• Imaging: 6
• Manufacturing: 4
• Chemistry: 4

Eras

• Before 1800: 4
• 1800 to 1899: 33
• 1900 to 1945: 20
• 1946 to 1975: 30
• 1976 to 2000: 15
• 2001 to Present: 4