{"id":15434,"date":"2013-09-03T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=15434"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:05:22","slug":"famous-patent-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/famous-patent-holders\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Patent Holders"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson and Jamie Lee Curtis have in common? If you guessed that they are all famous, you are partially correct. However, another common thread that these three share is that they all held a patent at one point in their lives.<\/p>\n

Although their ideas for their inventions were drastically different, each of them took a step towards making their idea become a reality.<\/p>\n

In 2011, we wrote a blog about celebrity inventors<\/a>, however, this time around, we wanted to take a deeper look at these celebrities and their patents!<\/p>\n

Although it may not be a surprise that Albert Einstein would hold a patent, it may come as a surprise to think of Michael Jackson and Jamie Lee Curtis as patent holders.<\/p>\n

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Albert Einstein<\/strong>– In addition to being the most famous scientist in the 20th<\/sup> century, Albert Einstein was also well-versed in the world of patents. For seven years, Einstein worked as a patent clerk and was responsible for examining the blueprints of other\u2019s inventions and then deciding whether or not the idea for the invention was feasible. If they were, Einstein would have to ensure that no one else had already been given a patent for the same idea.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of Einstein\u2019s most notable patents was for the Einstein refrigerator. This idea was jointly invented in 1928 by Einstein and his former student, Leo Szilard. From 1926 until 1933, Einstein and his co-inventor joined forces to improve home refrigeration technology. Motivated by a broken refrigeration system that leaked toxic fumes and killed a family in Berlin, Einstein and Szilard wanted to create a different type of refrigeration cycle that would avoid this problem. While working on this invention, Einstein used his many years of experience in the Swiss Patent Office to apply for valid patents for their inventions in several other countries. Einstein and his partner were eventually granted 45 patents in their names for three different models of the invention.<\/p>\n