Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office  

Release: U.S. Granted Patents by States, Territories, and Countries  

Units:  Number, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Annual

Notes:

Patent origin is determined by the residence of the first-named inventor.

A plant patent is granted by the United States government to an inventor (or the inventor's heirs or assigns) who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state.

See PTMT Products and Services Brochure and Types of patent applications and proceedings for more information.