Dr. Marian Croak holds more than 200 patents and has more than 100 pending applications. Her many achievements include pioneering work advancing the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), developing texttodonate technology, and work on the telephone network and voting system used for American Idol®.

On October 21, 2020 Dr. Croak, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, and an online audience discussed her decades of work on advanced technologies for voice and data networks and the internet. The conversation included her career, what inspired her, and the future of innovation.