He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least, not considered to be sole inventor of Chinese characters.

The following year she obtained five patents relating to her process, of which two listed her as sole inventor.

Wozniak is listed as the sole inventor on the following patents:

In a letter to a friend, Morse describes how vigorously he fought to be called the sole inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph despite the previous inventions.

Exner is actually listed as sole inventor on the design patent.

To have acknowledged Heatley's part of the work would have made it difficult to apply for patents with himself as sole inventor, which is what he did.

Watt was the sole inventor listed on his six patents:

Aiken published a press release announcing the Mark I listing himself as the sole "inventor".

This attempts to dispute the claim that Dr. Naismith was the sole inventor of the game.

She was the sole inventor on all but two of the patents.