When a notable member of the area tennis community moves on, it’s worth a mention. Such is the case with Steve Davis. After a 25-year career with Prince Sports in various management positions, Davis ...

The National Inventor of the Year Award, which is intended to celebrate the spirit of American innovation, is being awarded to Kipman in honor of his role on the Microsoft team that invented Kinect, ...

One night in the late 1960s, Eugene Gagliardi was lying awake in bed trying to figure out how to save his company. He was thinking about the Philly cheesesteak. Gagliardi ran a family business that ...

The inventor of the treadmill, and a devotee himself of the ubiquitous exercise equipment, has died at age 96. William Staub, who was spied on his trusty treadmill just two months before his death, ...

MOSHAV AHITUV, Israel — A bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard has the potential to change transportation habits from the world’s most congested cities to the poorest reaches of Africa, its ...

Sas died June 28 at his home in Vero Beach, his daughter Martha O'Connor confirmed Friday. Sas' father Elmer owned Tudor Metal Products in New York, surviving through the Depression by making ...

When Apple forced its mobile software leader Scott Forstall out of the company, it pushed out the most prolific inventor at the company, as measured by recent patent filings. Forstall's name is on 166 ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel remember Norman Joseph Woodland, an inventor of the bar code. He died Sunday at the age of 91. SIEGEL: That's the sound of a bar code scanner, and Woodland was the mind ...

In my experience, inventors aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. These people need to find each other, and can jointly make a ...

In September 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law. Under one of the most important provisions of the AIA, the longstanding first-to-invent patent system will be replaced ...