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invention category A group or set of inventions that are classified together because of common characteristics. Invention groups that include Agricultural, Communications, Computing, Energy, Transportation and more.
Part 1 Conducting Research. Understand what inventions or ideas are eligible for a patent. You can patent your idea if it's a process, a machine, an article of manufacture, a composition of matter, or an improvement of any of these.