Dr. Marian Rogers Crocker, the pioneering inventor of the virtual phone and text message donation system, will be named to the Edison Visiting Scholar Program by the USPTO.
Dr. Marian Rogers Croak is a pioneer in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, inventor of the text donation system, and a 2022 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
VoIP technology laid the foundation for today's Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other telecommunications projects that enable virtual connections, while the "SMS Donation Technology" invented by Dr. Marian Rogers Croak provides a more efficient way for many charities, non-profit organizations and other institutions. A simple, more effective way to donate.
Dr. Marian Rogers Croak started her career at Bell Labs in 1982. She currently serves as Vice President of Engineering at Google, focusing on reliability engineering to improve system and service performance. She has more than 200 patents to her name and is the only person to enter the Living Black Women in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Since the USPTO introduced the Visiting Scholar Program in January 2012, participants in the program, which are experts in various fields composed of outstanding scholars and researchers, have proposed ways to improve the efficiency of the USPTO, reduce the burden on applicants, and improve the quality of patents. Effective advice, the renaming of the visiting scholar was also the result of an internal USPTO poll, and Dr. Marian Rogers Croak received the most votes at the USPTO.
