Israeli BGU Student Makes Global List Of Prolific Inventors

November 20, 2017 | An Israeli PhD student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has made the global list of most prolific inventors, the university announced Monday. Assaf Natanzon, who studies in the Department of Computer Science has registered 202 patent families in the fields of storage systems and data protection and has 200 pending patent. He is the first Israeli to make the list, which is dominated by American inventors and includes Thomas Edison. Natanzon said he plans to reach 1000 patents, according to a statement sent by the university. Natanzon’s patents were registered for work he has done for Dell EMC as VP Advanced Technology and Investment evaluation EMEA, Distinguished Engineer. Natanzon said he was “proud to be the first Israeli to make the list of Prolific Inventors. I already have 202 registered patents and 200 pending ones; my next goal is to reach 500 and then 1000 patents. Most of my patents are in the area of data protection and disaster recovery, which is also the subject of my PhD thesis which I have recently submitted.”