Jony Ive is one of the main inventors of the Apple company, having registered in his own name an impressive number of invention patents, most of them for technologies that will not reach the market. It may be hard for you to believe, but Jony Ive has over 5000 patents registered to his name, the figure being colossal for many companies, not just a simple person, even if he is the Chief Design Officer at Apple.
Now, although Jony Ive did not invent extremely important technologies or products, like Thomas Edison, he has more than 2 times more patents registered for everything he did at Apple. More precisely, Thomas Edison has registered 2322 invention patents in his entire life, Jony Ive having 5000 invention patents registered, so with 2678 invention patents more.
Ive's inventiveness can perhaps be most starkly expressed by revealing that he has nearly 5,000 patents to his name. To give you some point of comparison, Edison was granted 2,332.
Practically, Jony Ive can be considered one of the greatest inventors of the 21st century, if we only look at the actual number of patents, but we all know that most of them are not that important. Despite this, Apple's CDO has managed to change the lives of many people through the products designed for Apple and will continue to do so, despite the fear of some that he will have a secondary role in the future.
Jony Ive is one of the few truly brilliant minds within the Apple company, he is one of the most important people for the future of Cupertino, and if he continues at this pace, then in a decade he could have over 10.000 patents registered invention.
