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Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Mary Kenner — Holds the Most US Patents of Any African-American Woman
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
This week, Sara brings us Mary Kenner! Coming from a family of inventors, Mary wasted no time and went to work on her own first invention at six years old. She invented throughout her life, and received her first US Patent in 1957 for the Sanitary Belt - a precursor to the sanitary napkin! To this day Mary still holds the record for the most US Patents awarded to an African American woman - FIVE!
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