Hi.I was User:AlexBartlett4 but was away from Wikipedia for a few months. When I returned, my computer had forgotten my password, and I had never bothered remembering it myself. This time I have one I'll remember, an ancestor.
I believe that Wikipedia is one of the most important 'inventions' of the 21st century. It is often my first port of call on the web. I don't edit a lot, but I maintain List of prolific inventors, and do a smattering of edits on other pages, mostly relating to inventors or inventions. My sincere thanks to all Wikipedia editors for creating this fantastic resource.
Inventors to watch
editThe 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Langer | 246 | 296 [1] |
| Victoria Smith | 276 | 281 [2] |
| Muriel Ishikawa | 113 | 280 [3] |
| Robert W. Lord | 114 | 270 [4] |
| Hartley Owen | 267 | 267 [5] |
| Steven Teig | 240 | 261 [6] |
| Daniel Hillis | 207 | 254 [7] |
| Nobuyuki Taniguchi | 251 | 252 [8] |
| Yoshihiro Kikuchi | 239 | 247 [9] |
| Liang Liu | 199 | 238 [10] |
| Eric Leuthardt | 75 | 224 [11] |
| Kai-Li Jiang | 110 | 219 [12] |
| Takeshi Chujoh | 211 | 213 [13] |
| You Yoshioka | 202 | 202 [14] |
| Adam Heller | 121 | 198 [15] |
| Robert Bourdelais | 186 | 187 [16] |
| Victoria Wood | 64 | 177 [17] |
| Dilip Chatterjee | 164 | 166 [18] |
| Benzion Landa | 165 | 165 [19] |
| Dean Kamen | 148 | 164 [20] |
| Wael Diab | 126 | 154 [21] |
| Shinichiro Koto | 147 | 147 [22] |
| Philo Farnsworth | 122 | 122 [23] |
| Nicola Tesla | 111 | 111 [24][25] |
| Ray Kurzweil | 42 | 60 [26] |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 30 | 30 [27] |
| Yoshiro Nakamatsu | 14 | 14 [28] |
†This table was last updated on June 25, 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.[29]. Others have been derived from annual lists published at strutpatent.com.
References
edit- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Robert Langer
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Victoria Smith at Genentech
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Muriel Ishikawa
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Robert W. Lord
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Hartley Owen
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Steven Teig
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Daniel Hillis
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Nobuyuki Taniguchi
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Yoshihiro Kikuchi
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Liang Liu at Hon Hai
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Eric Leuthardt
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Kai-Li Jiang
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Takeshi Chujoh
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for You Yoshioka
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Adam Heller
- ^ Utility Patent Search for Robert Bourdelais
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Victoria Wood
- ^ 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 Wael Diab
- ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Shinichiro Koto
- ^ 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