Housed in the University Libraries and serving the South Georgia region, the Patent & Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) is one of only two PTRCs in the state. The Georgiavation collections include a wide range of information about historical patents and inventors in Georgia, encompassing early innovations, African-American inventors, Confederate inventors, early women inventors, and contemporary inventors.
See patents of musical instruments granted to the Gretsch Company in the Gretsch Family in the Musical Instrument Universe collection.