Notable Post-1950 Independent Inventors
- Robert Kearns, inventor of a type of intermittent windscreen wiper, who successfully sued Ford and Chrysler, and whose story was dramatized in the film Flash of Genius
- Jerome H. Lemelson, who claimed to have invented technology used in bar code readers, and eventually lost those patent rights as a result of pursuing a so-called submarine strategy for his patent applications
- Peter Roberts, inventor of a quick-release socket wrench, who sold his patent to Sears and then successfully claimed the company owed him more because they had misrepresented their market estimates in negotiations
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