User:AlexBartlett4
Hi. I believe that Wikipedia is one of the most important 'inventions' of the 21st century. While I have been a Wikipedia user for a while, I have only recently had the 'confidence' to start editing it. I hope to do a lot more in time. My sincere thanks to all Wikipedia editors for creating this fantastic resource.
Inventors to watch
[edit]The list below relates to List of prolific inventors, which I maintain on an (almost) regular basis. As many of the inventors listed are still actively inventing, their patent counts constantly change. List of prolific inventors contains a list of inventors with 300 or more patent families. There are a number of inventors who are either close to 300 U.S. utility patents, or are rapidly rising in patent count, and could therefore exceed 300 patents soon. Alternatively, they may need to be included if the cutoff level for inclusion in the list is lowered. I have also included a few historically famous inventors. These inventors are tracked in the list below. The two columns are included to estimate the rate of increase:
Issued US Utility Patents
Inventor | Jan 5 2012 | Last update |
---|---|---|
Liang Liu | 199 | 297 [1] |
Victoria Smith | 295 | 297 [2] |
Jeyhan Karaoguz | 174 | 288 [3] |
Robert Langer | 246 | 280 [4] |
Mark Malamud | 156 | 278 [5] |
Nathan Myhrvold | 188 | 272 [6] |
Royce Levien | 144 | 269 [7] |
Hartley Owen | 267 | 267 [8] |
Nobuyuki Taniguchi | 251 | 252 [9] |
Steven Teig | 240 | 252 [10] |
Yoshihiro Kikuchi | 239 | 247 [11] |
Daniel Hillis | 207 | 241 [12] |
Robert W. Lord | 114 | 229 [13] |
Muriel Ishikawa | 113 | 227 [14] |
Takeshi Chujoh | 211 | 213 [15] |
You Yoshioka | 202 | 202 [16] |
Kai-Li Jiang | 110 | 199 [17] |
Robert Bourdelais | 186 | 187 [18] |
Eric Leuthardt | 75 | 184 [19] |
Adam Heller | 121 | 177 [20] |
Dilip Chatterjee | 164 | 200 [21] |
Benzion Landa | 165 | 165 [22] |
Dean Kamen | 148 | 157 [23] |
Shinichiro Koto | 147 | 147 [24] |
Victoria Wood | 64 | 139 [25] |
Wael Diab | 126 | 126 [26] |
Philo Farnsworth | 122 | 122 [27] |
Nicola Tesla | 111 | 111 [28][29] |
Ray Kurzweil | 42 | 53 [30] |
Alexander Graham Bell | 30 | 30 [31] |
Yoshiro Nakamatsu | 14 | 14 [32] |
†This table was last updated on January 1, 2013.
Note that this list is quite incomplete. I will add to it as I find more information. The high rate of invention has been determined from the large number of pending patents, more than the number of granted patents. Many of the names are derived from a list published on the web by Patentdocs, titled "top 100 inventors", which does not list granted patents, but lists patent applications filed over the last few years. Others were derived from the last list of prolific inventors published by the USPTO, back in 1997.[33]. Others have been derived from annual lists published at strutpatent.com.
References
[edit]- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Liang Liu
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Victoria Smith
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Jeyhan Karaoguz
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Robert Langer
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Mark Malamud
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Nathan Myhrvold
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Royce Levien
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Hartley Owen
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Nobuyuki Taniguchi
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Steven Teig
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Yoshihiro Kikuchi
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Daniel Hillis
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Robert W. Lord
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Muriel Ishikawa
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Takeshi Chujoh
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for You Yoshioka
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Kai-Li Jiang
- ^ Utility Patent Search for Robert Bourdelais
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Eric Leuthardt
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Adam Heller
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Dilip Chatterjee
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Benzion Landa
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Dean Kamen
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Shinichiro Koto
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Victoria Wood
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Wael Diab
- ^ The Complete Philo T. Farnsworth U.S. Patent collection
- ^ List of Nikola Tesla patents
- ^ Jim Bieberich's Complete Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent Collection
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Ray Kurzweil
- ^ The Complete Alexander Graham Bell U.S. Patent Collection
- ^ INPADOC Search for U.S. patents and patent applications with Yoshiro Nakamatsu as an inventor
- ^ USPTO publication: Prolific Inventors Receiving Utility Patents 1988-1997