> For Edison and Ford at least I guess a lot of those later patents were done by underlings and the boss man put hsi name on it. In principle, the rules for in

> For Edison and Ford at least I guess a lot of those later patents were done by underlings and the boss man put hsi name on it. In principle, the rules for inventorship for patents differ substantially from the rules for authorship in academic papers: Inventorship is determined by law, authorship is determined by, well, custom. eg: http://www.unemed.com/blog/how-to-determine-who-is-an-inventor-on-a-patent-unraveling-inventorship-vs-authorship http://www.unemed.com/blog/how-to-determine-who-is-an-invent...