MARCEL MBAMALUMr. Cyprian Emeka Uzoh, the United States-based Nigerian from Anambra State and father-in-law of the celebrated Apple tech inventor Dr. Jeofery Kibuule, is listed among the world’s prominent inventors in the US.
Prime Business Africa reports that Mr. Uzoh is ‘gazetted’ in the US’ records of “Prolific Inventors” with 328 patents to his credit.
An inventor needs just three (issued) patents to be so recognized, and Uzoh’s 328 (issued) patents clearly dwarf the records.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelHis daughter, Nneka Uzoh, was the cynosure of all eyes as she tied the nuptial cord with Apple App inventor Dr Jeofery Kibuule in San Francisco city of California on Saturday.
In her own rights, Nneka, a data set analyst and youngest Board Member of the African American Shakespearian Group (AASG), is said to have also recorded some feats in tech and social entrepreneurship. She reportedly saved some American black kids from prison term after they burgled her home and were convicted by a US judge. “I do not want to send the same kids I help out with their homework to prison,” her father Emeka Uzoh quoted his daughter as having told the judge, leading to the kids’ eventual freedom.
Prime Business Africa got in touch with the serial inventor, Mr Uzoh, early Wednesday morning to confirm the records and he said all 328 patents are “issued.”
Most registered patent applications are officially recognised for their own sake for operational reasons, even before they are confirmed and issued, but Prime Business Africa confirmed all Uzoh’s 328 patents fully issued between 1978 and 2021.
The abstract of Mr Uzoh’s latest patent, 11,056,390, issued in June 2021, according to the USPTO Patent Full Text And Image Database, says it’s “A device and method of forming the device that includes cavities formed in a substrate of a substrate device, the substrate device also including conductive vias formed in the substrate. Chip devices, wafers, and other substrate devices can be mounted to the substrate device. Encapsulation layers and materials may be formed over the substrate device in order to fill the cavities.”
Uzoh is said to be a genius of computing for having “revolutionalised: the technology world through his inventions. He has co-written more than 40 publications. He was appointed inventor of the year in 2006 for his patent on the manufacturing process of an electrolytic interconnection structure on a chip of integrated circuit (USPTO 6.709.562), which became one of the most important patents in studying the science and technology of the field of semiconductors.
A vias, in the context of building construction, deals with connecting structures or beacons of concrete.
Mr Uzoh hails from Ojoto, headquarters of Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
His son-in-law, a US-based Ugandan Apple app inventor, Dr Kibuule, 31, had made headlines in the tech world after Apple launched the Apple Watch Series 6.
He was among the brains behind the blood oxygen app, after spending five years in Silicon Valley.
Apple said that measurements taken with the blood oxygen app is “for general fitness and wellness purposes.”
In investigating the actual number and status of Uzoh’s patents, Prime Business Africa also found
another US-based Nigerian from Akwa Ibom, Patrick Usoro, also making a list of prominent Nigerians with a significant number of US patents.
Usoro has 203 issued patents
Dr. Marcel Mbamalu is a communication scholar, journalist and entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D in Mass Communication from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and is the Chief Executive Officer Newstide Publications, the publishers of Prime Business Africa.
A seasoned journalist, he horned his journalism skills at The Guardian Newspaper, rising to the position of News Editor at the flagship of the Nigerian press. He has garnered multidisciplinary experience in marketing communication, public relations and media research, helping clients to deliver bespoke campaigns within Nigeria and across Africa.
He has built an expansive network in the media and has served as a media trainer for World Health Organisation (WHO) at various times in Northeast Nigeria. He has attended numerous media trainings, including the Bloomberg Financial Journalism Training and Reuters/AfDB training on Effective Coverage of Infrastructural Development of Africa.
A versatile media expert, he won the Jefferson Fellowship in 2023 as the sole Africa representative on the program. Dr Mbamalu was part of a global media team that covered the 2020 United State’s Presidential election. As Africa's sole representative in the 2023 Jefferson Fellowships, Dr Mbamalu was selected to tour the United States and Asia (Japan and Hong Kong) as part of a 12-man global team of journalists on a travel grant to report on inclusion, income gaps and migration issues between the US and Asia.
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Simply amazing. Funny Enough,Emeka Uzor does not have plenty titles to his name. No Prof,Dr,Ichie,Chief etc.
He’s simply amazing… And I’m proud to be onye Ojoto.
More wins Sire
Awesome! Keep up the good work Sir.
Interesting