The latest USPTO Speaker Series event on October 21 featured Dr. Marian Rogers Croak.
Dr. Croak and Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, along with the audience, discussed her decades of work on advanced technologies for voice and data networks and the internet. Watch the recording of the event on YouTube.
Dr. Croak holds more than 200 patents and has over 100 pending patent applications. She is now Vice President for Site Reliability Engineering at Google Inc., where she works on initiatives such as the Loon Project, which seeks to use high-altitude balloons as cell towers to provide WiFi access to trains in rural India and other parts of the world.
“If you didn’t attend the event, I urge you to take time and watch the video,” said Under Secretary Iancu. “Dr. Croak is a shining example of the power of American innovation, and her success is an inspiration to America’s future generations of inventors.”
The USPTO Speaker Series is a regularly occurring program featuring American inventors and entrepreneurs who share their remarkable personal stories of invention, innovation, entrepreneurship, or leadership. View past Speaker Series programs on the USPTO’s YouTube channel.