---
kind: "section"
citation: "35 U.S.C. § 152"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
number: "152"
heading: "Issue of patent to assignee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/152"
units:
  - "Part II — Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents"
  - "Chapter 14 — Issue of Patent"
---

# §152. Issue of patent to assignee


Patents may be granted to the assignee of the [inventor](/usc/35/100.md?p=f) of record in the Patent and Trademark Office, upon the application made and the specification sworn to by the [inventor](/usc/35/100.md?p=f), except as otherwise provided in this title.


## Source credit

(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 804; Pub. L. 93–596, § 1, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on Title 35, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 44 (R.S. 4895).

Language is changed and the reference to reissue is omitted in view of the general provision in section 251.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1975—Pub. L. 93–596 substituted “Patent and Trademark Office” for “Patent Office”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1975 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 93–596 effective Jan. 2, 1975, see section 4 of Pub. L. 93–596, set out as a note under section 1111 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.