S. 4713 aims to amend U.S. law to facilitate the voluntary collection of demographic information from patent inventors. The bill requires the Director to collect this data, including gender, race, and veteran status, from inventors who choose to provide it. It mandates that...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to ask inventors of new ideas if they want to share information about themselves, like if they're a boy or girl, their background, or if they were in the army. This is to help understand different inventors, and the information must be kept safe and not mixed with their inventions.