Condé Nast Portfolio has identified the world's most
prolific inventors alive—three of them have more patents than Thomas Edison—and
asked them the big question: Where do the big ideas come from?
According to Portfolio.com, Shunpei Yamazaki is the most prolific inventor in history, but you’ve probably never heard of him.
He is 65, runs a research and development company—Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, in Atsugi, Japan—and holds 1,811 U.S. patents, nearly 700 more than Thomas Edison.
Invention is the engine of industry and the raison d’être of nearly every technology company. More than that, it advances civilization. Yet our greatest creators don’t have rock-star status.
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