The Alabama Inventors Database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library compiles these records and updates the database on an ongoing basis.
The Fender Custom Shop produces special-order guitars for customers through a Custom Shop dealer network, creates limited edition guitars, builds limited edition amplifiers, and does some research & design for the parent company.
Most of us buy used guitars and between Fender poorly marking pickups, other companies making 'replicas', a few faked clones sold as real, owners building their own pickups from kits, and general pickup-swapping tone-chasing adventures we expect the pickups have been messed with and the usual details get revealed by looking at the backs of the pickups and the wiring.