User:Alex Bartlett4a

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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[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
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]

  1. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Robert Langer
  2. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Victoria Smith at Genentech
  3. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Muriel Ishikawa
  4. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Robert W. Lord
  5. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Hartley Owen
  6. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Steven Teig
  7. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Daniel Hillis
  8. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Nobuyuki Taniguchi
  9. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Yoshihiro Kikuchi
  10. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Liang Liu at Hon Hai
  11. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Eric Leuthardt
  12. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Kai-Li Jiang
  13. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Takeshi Chujoh
  14. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for You Yoshioka
  15. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Adam Heller
  16. ^ Utility Patent Search for Robert Bourdelais
  17. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Victoria Wood
  18. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Dilip Chatterjee
  19. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Benzion Landa
  20. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Dean Kamen
  21. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Wael Diab
  22. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Shinichiro Koto
  23. ^ The Complete Philo T. Farnsworth U.S. Patent collection
  24. ^ List of Nikola Tesla patents
  25. ^ Jim Bieberich's Complete Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent Collection
  26. ^ USPTO Utility Patent Search for Ray Kurzweil
  27. ^ The Complete Alexander Graham Bell U.S. Patent Collection
  28. ^ INPADOC Search for U.S. patents and patent applications with Yoshiro Nakamatsu as an inventor
  29. ^ USPTO publication: Prolific Inventors Receiving Utility Patents 1988-1997
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