Patent pending: Wyoming residents join ranks of inventors

The Billings Gazette carried an AP article about all the interesting things Wyoming natives have invented, including the Pinedale inventor of the suturing staple used in surgery. However, a search of the Wyoming Inventor's Database doesn't show anyone from Pinedale who has invented suturing staples. But as expected you find people from Pinedale have invented things like a kinfe and a fishing lure. And the not expected, such as the Internet Wide Distributed Data Control System.

Furthermore, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site shows that since 1976 no one from Wyoming has patented anything with the words suture and staple in the abstract.