Possible Clues:

• His first patent was for an electric vote recorder
• Man of ideas?
• Light creator
• Town in central New Jersey
• TV channel upset about inventor
• A famous man, but there's no airs about him
• Seems the editor is willing to be an inventor
• Seems the editor is willing to do some inventing
• Thomas . . . . . . famous American inventor
• There's no team backing for an inventor