Thomas E. Murray
1093 patents for inventions
Thomas Alva Edison was granted 1,093 patents
1001
1001
Patents protected inventors and let them profit from their inventions.
Patents protected inventors and let them profit from their inventions.
I believe the final count was 1093 patents issued to Tom.
so he could show that he was talented to other people.
Patents protected inventors and let them profit from their inventions.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was granted 1093 US Patents - a record that has yet to be broken by a single individual. He also held a couple hundred foreign patents in the UK, France, and Germany. This goes without mentioning the 500-800 denied US applications he filed as well as other inventions he may never have had sought protection for.
According to Paul Israel's biography of Thomas A. Edison, Edison received 1,093 U.S. patents. There by earning the title of history's most prolific inventor.