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Black history inventors are listed alphabetically: use the A to Z index
bar to navigate and select or just browse the many listings. Each
listing has the name of the black inventor followed by the patent
number(s) which is the unique number assigned to an invention when a
patent is issued, the date the patent was issued, and a description of
the invention as written by the inventor. If available, links are
provided to in-depth articles, biographies, illustrations and photos on
each individual inventor or patent. How to submit to the database²⁵.

Abrams to Asom > B²⁶



William B Abrams

• #450,550²⁷, 4/14/1891, Hame Attachments Part for a draft horses' collar.
  

Elijah Abron

• #7,037,564, 5/2/2006, Substrate sheets with removable strip
  

Christopher P. Adams

• #5,641,658, 6/24/1997, Method for performing amplification of nucleic acid with two primers bound to a single solid support
  

James S Adams

• #1,356,329²⁸, 10/19/1920, Propelling means for airplanes.
  

George Edward Alcorn²⁹

• #4,172,004³⁰, 10/23/1979, Method for forming dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias
  
• #4,201,800, 5/6/1980, Hardened photoresist master image mask process
  
• #4,289,834, 9/15/1981, Dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias
  
• #4,472,728, 9/18/1984, Imaging X-ray spectrometer
  
• #4,543,442, 9/24/1985, GaAs Schottky barrier photo-responsive device and method of fabrication
  
• #4,618,380³¹, 10/21/1986, Method of fabricating an imaging X-ray spectrometer
  

Nathaniel Alexander³²

• #997,108³³, 7/4/1911, Folding Chair
  

Ralph W Alexander

• #256,610³⁴, 4/18/1882, Corn planter check rower
  

Winser Edward Alexander

• #3,541,333, 11/17/1970, System for enhancing fine detail in thermal photographs
  

Charles William Allen

• #613,436³⁵, 11/1/1898, Self-Leveling Table
  

Floyd Allen

• #3,919,642, 11/11/1975, Low cost telemeter for monitoring a battery and DC voltage converter power supply
  

James B. Allen

• #551,105³⁶, 12/10/1895, Clothes Line Support
  

James Metthew Allen

• #2,085,624³⁷, 6/29/1937, Remote control apparatus
  

John H Allen

• #4,303,938, 12/1/1981, Pattern generator for simulating image generation
  

John S Allen

• #1,093,096³⁸, 4/14/1914, Package-tie
  

Robert T Allen

• #3,071,243³⁹, 1/1/1963, Vertical coin counting tube
  

Tanya R Allen

• #5,325,543⁴⁰, 7/5/1994, Undergarment with a pocket for releasably securing an absorbent pad
  

Virgie M. Ammons⁴¹

• #3,908,633⁴², 9/30/1975, Fireplace Damper Actuating Tool
  

Alexander P Ashbourne

• #163,962, 6/1/1875, Process for Preparing Coconut
  
• #170,460⁴³, 11/30/1875, Biscuit Cutter
  
• #194,287, 8/21/1877, Process of Treating Coconut
  
• #230,518, 7/27/1880, Refining Coconut Oil
  

Moses T. Asom

• #5,386,126, 1/31/1995, Semiconductor devices based on optical transitions between quasibound energy levels
  

Marc Auguste⁴⁴

• #7,083,512, 8/1/2006, Coin and token organizing, holding and dispensing apparatus⁴⁵
  

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