MOSCOW, March 9 Russian women in 2023 received 11% more patents than in 2022, the number of registrations reached almost 10 thousand, calculated for the company «Online» Patent».
“In 2023, Russian women received 9,854 patents — an 11% increase compared to the previous year. At the same time, the share of protection documents received by women in the overall structure of patents registered by inventors in 2023 increased from 24% to 28%,” experts calculated the database Rospatent.
They estimate that of the total number of patents received by women in 2023, 73% are patents for inventions, 16% for utility models and 11% for industrial designs.
An invention is a technical solution in any field, a utility model is a device. Most often, a utility model patent is obtained for new solutions that do not significantly complement those already known on the market. An industrial design is the design of any product or product.
The company reminded that many things and technologies that we use every day were invented by women.
«Among them: a dishwasher (Josephine Cochrane, 1886), a car heater (Margaret Wilcox, 1893), Wi-Fi (Hedy Lamarr, 1942), AI-76 gasoline (Anna Mezhlumova, 1945) and an intercom (Marie Brown, 1969)», — gave examples of analytics.