The Age of Invention: Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-Scraped Sources

This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting for inventor ages associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (name location) search age date of publicly available online web directories build a scoring system to indicate quality that we collect. After applying variety heuristics robustness checks, are confident 1,508,676 with granted between 1976 2018. also find dates 206,589 inventors, though not as accuracy information. The datasets replication files freely at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YRLSKU