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These nations were issued the most patents per capita in the last five years, according to the US Patent and Trademark Office.By Alison DeNisco Rayome | September 11, 2018, 6:27 AM PSTPatents—the set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor in exchanged for public disclosure of an invention—have protected entrepreneurs and their ideas for more than a century. With the world's 10 millionth patent issued in June, a Kempler Industries report collected data from the US Patent and Trademark Office to examine which nations and US states are the most and least innovative, based on the number of issued patents.The current patent numbering and examination system was created in 1836, the report noted. However, patent activity has surged in recent decades:...https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-10-most-innovative-countries-in-the-world/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid=26803976080364591140544652471000
