Esther Sans Takeuchi (born Esther Sans, Latvian: Estere Sans) is a materials scientist and chemical engineer, working on energy storage systems and power sources for biomedical devices.
She is also a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
She holds more than 150 U.S.
patents.
“The battery was invented once and reinvented over 100 times.
I don’t own the patent.
The company does.
It was called Greatbatch.
Now it’s called Integer Corp.
When you join a company, you sign over your patent rights to the company.”