And the winner is: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., which has just received patent number 8,000,000 for a device to help people with a certain type of vision impairment see better.
Patent No. 8,000,000 is not actually the 8,000,000th patent granted in the United States. Patent No. 1 wasn't issued until 1836; the approximately 10,000 earlier patents used a different indexing system. About 8,000 of those early patents were destroyed in a fire.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Innovators Gone Wild: Patent Office Issues 8,000,000th Patent - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
Author:Rebecca J. Rosen
