Three patents (one for cosmetics, and two for paints and stains) were issued to George Washington Carver
George Washinton Carver was a black American. He invented peanut butter.
An agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were his recipes and improvements to/for: adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents were issued to Carver. George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. He was born into difficult and changing times near the end of the Civil War. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The identity of Carver's father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. Moses and Susan Carver reared George and his brother as their own children. It was on the Moses' farm where George first fell in love with nature, where he earned the nickname 'The Plant Doctor' and collected in earnest all manner of rocks and plants.
In the USA alone there have been over 8,300,000 patents issued. Add to these all of the other patents in all of the other countries and you will have your answer.
Alexander Graham Bell had 18 patents issued to him only, and 12 issued to him and collaborators.
Most likely George Washington.
George Washington Carver attended and graduated from Minneapolis High School in Kansas. Afterwards, he applied to many colleges but was denied by many because of his race. He was accepted into Simpson College where he studied Art and Piano. Due to his liking in painting plants, his teacher suggested he study botany, which he did. He studied botany in the Iowa State Agricultural College.
Yes, they are, but you have to apply for them.
Kia Silverbrook. Silverbrook is listed as an inventor on 3123 issued US utility patents.
George Washington, in 1789.
he was issued 1,093 patents
The US Patent Office issued 99,200 total patents from 1 January 1990 to 31 December 1990, including 9 reissue patents, 6 plant patents, 194 design patents, and 98,991 utility patents.
The Washington quarter was issued in 1932 to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, so the answer is no.