Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

Throughout history, humanity has displayed a remarkable talent for getting things spectacularly wrong when it comes to innovation. We’ve dismissed world-changing inventions as “useless toys,” invested ...

Would you trust a wasabi-scented fire alarm to save your life? How about a scientific test for infidelity that smells your partner’s underwear? Or a high-speed camera used to study the flight dynamics ...

Nov 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented. USPTO Director ...

Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine. But conventional wisdom often has it all wrong.

“Brazil, the United States and Europe have each adopted stringent requirements for patenting AI inventions, tailored to promote technological advancement while preventing overly broad, abstract claims ...