This Indian Scientist Dr. Gurtej Sandhu holds more patents than Thomas Edison. He holds 1299 US patents till date while Edison stood at only 1093 patents.
Meet Dr. @Gurtej Sandhu, who is recognized for being the all-time seventh most prolific inventor as measured by the number of U.S. utility patents.
Dr. Sandhu was born in London but grew up in India. He was a quiet and curious child, asking big questions about the world. His parents and family, despite facing difficulties, inspired him with their education and love for learning. Although many in his family were into chemistry, Dr. Sandhu chose physics because it explained how things work around us, and he found it fascinating.
His academic journey started at the @Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. He studied Electrical Engineering and got interested in how computer chips are made. After that, he went to the @University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the United States for his PhD in physics, which he finished in 1990.
When he was done, many tech companies wanted to hire him because of his extensive technological knowledge. Dr. Sandhu chose to work at @Micron Technology Inc., which is a big company that produces computer memory chips. At Micron, he did many different jobs, and he helped create important technology used in making computer chips.
There, Sandhu secured his first few patents improving how many memory units could be crammed into these chips, and he hasn’t stopped inventing since.
He used Moore’s Law to make computer chips better. Dr. Sandhu found a way to put more memory on the chips, which makes them store more data and work better. Now, most of the world uses his technology.
Dr. Sandhu works for a big company called Micron in Boise, Idaho. Micron, along with companies like @Samsung and @SK Hyic, makes most of the computer memory chips in the world, and that’s a big achievement for Dr. Sandhu.
He also has lots of patents, which are like special ideas that only he thought of. These ideas are used in things like self-driving cars and tiny structures called photonics.
Not only did he get patents for his innovations, but he also lifted Micron which along with its competitors in Korea, like Samsung and SK Hynix accounts for 95 percent of the global DRAM market.
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