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Kia Silverbrook (born 1958) is an Australian inventor, scientist, and serial entrepreneur. He is the most prolific inventor in the world,〔(Kia Silverbrook Accumulates his 4,573rd patent on 6 February 2013 ) Patent Rank, 29 April 2013〕 and has been granted 4,665〔(Issued US Utility Patents of Kia Silverbrook )〕 US utility patents as of 26 March 2014. Internationally, he has 9,874〔(Kia Silverbrook Patents registered at INPADOC )〕 patents or patent applications registered at the international patent document database (INPADOC).〔Difference between numbers of US patents and INPADOC patents is often related to the same invention being patented in several countries, see also patent families〕 Silverbrook has founded companies and developed products in a wide range of disciplines, including computer graphics, video and audio production, scientific computing, factory automation, digital printing, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), molecular electronics, internet software, content management, genetic analysis, MEMS devices, security inks, photovoltaic solar cells, and interactive paper.〔(Meet Kia Silverbrook, one of the most prolific inventors in history, on "The Essence of Disruptive Technologies" ) SGE, 27 August 2012〕 Silverbrook has made numerous inventions in the fields of digital music synthesis, digital video, digital printing, digital paper, internet commerce, computer graphics, liquid crystal displays, robotics, 3D printing, organic chemistry, DNA analysis, lab-on-a-chip, solar photovoltaics, software, image processing, microelectromechanical systems, mechanical engineering, cryptography, sensors, nanotechnology, microfluidics, polymers, fault tolerance, parallel processing, semiconductor fabrication, and integrated circuit (chip) architecture.〔〔〔(US Patent Applications of Kia Silverbrook )〕 == Prolific inventor== (詳細はJapanese inventor Shunpei Yamazaki.〔(The True Inventor ) Basson-Booyens website〕 Yamazaki had previously passed Thomas Edison, who had widely been known as the world's most prolific inventor.〔(Thomas Alva Edison Biography at Rutgers University )〕 The top five inventors, ranked by number of worldwide utility patent families, are shown in the following table: This table was last updated on 7 July 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kia Silverbrook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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