Our Inventive Region: US Patents in the Aberdeen Area Since 1976

The US Patent Office has an online database that allows you to search for details about the inventors and their inventions back to 1976.*

Feeling inventive? Check out how many patents were granted to inventors claiming the following hometowns in the last 35 years. If you dig around in the data, note how many of these inventors worked at AT&T, Merck, Hartford Insurance Co and other major corporations.

• Aberdeen - 592
• Belford - 102
• Cliffwood Beach - 47
• East Brunswick - 3,023
• Edison -  4,451
• Freehold - 1,925
• Hazlet - 494
• Holmdel -2,821
• Keansburg - 55
• Keasbey - 32
• Keyport - 181
• Leonardo - 120
• Manalapan - 967
• Marlboro - 1,206
• Matawan - 1,143
• Middletown - 2,450
• Morganville - 1,044
• Navesink - 18
• Old Bridge - 758
• Parlin - 240
• Perth Amboy - 91
• Sewaren - 28
• South Amboy - 98
• South River - 127
• Union Beach - 31
• Wickatunk - 2
• Woodbridge - 522

* You can only search by patent number in this database between 1790 and 1975. Researchers must rely on the Patent Office's multi-volume annual reports during this earlier period. Perhaps I can access some random copies using inter-library loan to see what our local Matawan inventors were up to in the 19th century?