317 Steve Jobs Patents

    Steve Jobs was a great innovator who personally changed the world. A lot of what we see around, first arose in the imagination of Steve Jobs - and now has become a reality for billions of people. The history of Jobs' inventions can be traced in 317 patents (NY Times infographic), where his name is indicated among the authors.

    Steve Jobs is the author and co-author of the design of desktop computers (20 patents), iPods (85 patents), iPhone and other iOS devices (48 patents), AppleTV (6 patents), laptops (39 patents), monitors (5 patents), mice and keyboards (13 patents). He is a co-author of several innovative elements of the MacOS operating system (33 patents) and NeXT (3 patents). Not a single trifle could escape the attention of a genius, so Steve Jobs changed the appearance of several power adapters, plugs, connectors, covers, clips and lanyards for headphones, speakers, and even came up with a staircase with glass steps of a special design (all in this category - 21 patents).

    This is the contribution of Steve Jobs to make life around us more convenient and beautiful. This is what he managed to do.

    By the way, some of Jobs’s inventions have never been released to the market, including a flexible-leg display with a three-armed mount, a portable device for tracking account status and so on.

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