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  • 2024 Inventors’ Day Roundup: Inventing for Sustainability

    2024 Inventors’ Day Roundup: Inventing for Sustainability

    The challenges to our environment and to the health of our ecosystems are many. This National Inventors’ Day, we’re showcasing the inventors and entrepreneurs — both young and established — who are devising novel and sustainable solutions to the problems they see in the world.From repurposing plastic waste to helping mitigate the dangers brought on…

  • Celebrating Hispanic Inventors, Educators, and Trailblazers

    Celebrating Hispanic Inventors, Educators, and Trailblazers

    Working in classrooms, laboratories, hospitals, and even outer space, these innovators have pushed the boundaries to improve lives for people everywhere.

  • Smashing Ceilings and Building Solutions: 14 Trailblazing Women Inventors

    Smashing Ceilings and Building Solutions: 14 Trailblazing Women Inventors

    In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting women whose ideas and inventions are aimed at improving lives and solving global problems. “I was always trying to figure out the magic that made things tick.” That’s how Jeanelle Dao, an eighth grader from San Jose, California, describes her earliest childhood inclinations toward invention. Last year,…

  • From Past to Present: 12 Black Inventors and Innovators to Know

    From Past to Present: 12 Black Inventors and Innovators to Know

    Throughout history, innovators from diverse backgrounds have helped change the world and improve lives. To celebrate Black History Month, we’re highlighting 12 past and present Black inventors whose impact ranges from medicine to voting accessibility. In February, we commemorate Black History Month and celebrate National Inventors’ Day — an opportunity to showcase both pioneering Black…

  • 2023 Inventor’s Day Roundup: Inventing for a Better Future

    2023 Inventor’s Day Roundup: Inventing for a Better Future

    These innovators are changing the face of invention — and working to change the world. A hundred years ago this year, Jerry Lemelson was born into a world that was being transformed by the power of invention. He himself became a prolific and versatile inventor, with more than 600 patents across a wide range of…

  • 2022 Inventors’ Day Roundup: Faces of Invention

    2022 Inventors’ Day Roundup: Faces of Invention

    As we confront complex issues like climate change, sustainable energy, and equitable access to food and healthcare, one throughline is constant: progress and innovation are inextricably linked. In 1992, prolific inventor Jerry Lemelson and his wife Dolly founded The Lemelson Foundation to support  invention that improves lives and strengthens economies. Since then, the Foundation has…

  • Engineering for Impact

    Engineering for Impact

    Five Invention-Based Businesses Addressing Development Challenges with Hardware-Led Solutions From COVID to climate change, the world has recently witnessed mounting global challenges that have hindered progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, this year’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference have shownMore

  • These Inventor Entrepreneurs Are Solving Global Health Challenges

    These Inventor Entrepreneurs Are Solving Global Health Challenges

    From better neonatal care to affordable and accessible diagnostics, invention-based businesses are addressing health disparities and spurring economic growth. Whether COVID-19 or pneumonia, blindness or jaundice, many health conditions can be improved or even prevented when people have access to the right care. But according to the United Nations, less than half of the global…

  • 2021 Women’s History Month: Three Women Who Are Blazing a Trail in Medicine

    2021 Women’s History Month: Three Women Who Are Blazing a Trail in Medicine

    To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting the groundbreaking accomplishments of three women whose work is helping advance human health care. The good news: The number of women inventors is increasing. The not-as-good news: Only about 17% of inventors worldwide are women, according to a report published by World Intellectual Property Indicators. In the United…

  • Invention Roundup: Three Inventors Who Are Designing a More Inclusive World

    Invention Roundup: Three Inventors Who Are Designing a More Inclusive World

    To commemorate International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we’re spotlighting inventors whose work is redefining what it means to be included and reshaping the world so it’s accessible to all. Millions of people live with some form of disability. According to the World Health Organization’s World Report on Disability, 15 percent of the global population…

  • Invention Roundup: Food Systems

    Invention Roundup: Food Systems

    Three Invention-Based Companies Whose Ideas Could Lead to a Healthier Future In honor of World Food Day, we’re spotlighting inventors whose work is rooted in rethinking food systems to benefit people and the planet. Across the world, hunger is the leading cause of death. Unequal access to food and inefficient supply chains leave millions of…

  • 5 Young Inventors Aim to Change the World

    5 Young Inventors Aim to Change the World

    Anyone can be an inventor. There are no restrictions on having a bright idea that can change the world. Note: This article was originally published in the Mechanical Engineering magazine at ASME. Click here to read more of ASME’s content. Hannah Herbst with President Barack Obama in front of her research for Beacon, a water energy-capturing device.…