Looking at the past 20 years of USPTO data, the top 100,000 inventors (top 1.89% of all inventors) generated 3,423,287 patents (62.24% of all patents).
Here’s the minimum threshold to be in this exclusive club: Top 100,000 ~15 patents; Top 50,000 ~23 patents; Top 25,000 ~35 patents; Top 10,000 ~59 patents; Top 5,000 ~84 patents; Top 1,000 ~179 patents.
About The Author
Misha Ghosh
Misha Ghosh is a prolific inventor with eighty-six USPTO-issued utility patents and over two hundred U.S and international patent filings pending. His patents are in Financial Services and Payments Solutions space.
He and his team won Wells Fargo's 2020 Invention of the Year for a Risk and Operations initiative. He ideated and developed "MasterCard Retail Location Insights," which was voted by MasterCard employees worldwide in May 2014 as the most innovative, has the most significant market opportunity, and is the most important for the company to market. This idea was voted the best one among hundreds of ideas submitted globally in a yearlong competition. He was also recognized by Bank of America as the Inventor of the Year for 2008 for his many innovations within the bank.