In the United States only inventors can apply for patents. However, inventors can (and often do) transfer ownership of patent applications and issued patents to others, such as the inventor's employer corporation. In some cases, an employee agreement requires inventors to make such transfers.
In the United States, only the United States Patent & Trademark Office. In other nations, the appropriate national counterpart of the USPTO.
anybody with an original and untaken idea with an invention to prove it
The date the patent was granted.
Lincoln was granted a patent for a device to lift boats over shoals.
Raymond Damadian
A patent.
No way to tell. You can look up that patent, and it will tell you what year that patent was granted- but there is no way of telling when it was made, other than AFTER that patent was granted.
A patent is a resource right granted by the USA Government to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using or selling the invention in America or uploading it for a limited time set when the patent is granted. To get a patent, an application should be filed within the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Yes, the patent number was 19401, granted November 1891
Technically, a patent is granted to the inventors, but in practice, the corporation that employs the inventors owns the invention, the application and the resulting patents, if any, through an "assignment of rights" filed in the USPTO.
Nicolas Rieussec.
a patent
a patent
Yes, but as soon as the patent is granted, you can no longer use the idea.