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Sony
Rank (1994):
#13
of 12,641
Top 1%
1,124 inventors
815
Patents 1994
Top Inventors at Sony
1994
Showing 1–50 of 1,124 inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John W. Richards
10
1
Shingo Kadomura
10
3
Kenzo Akagiri
8
3
Mitsuhiro Nakamura
8
#5
Junichi Sato
7
#6
Atsushi Fukumoto
6
#6
Clive Henry Gillard
6
#6
Hirotoshi Fujisawa
6
#6
Hiroshi Nakaizumi
6
#6
Mitsuharu Ohki
6
#11
James H. Wilkinson
5
#11
Katsumi Yamatogi
5
#11
Kenichi Fukahori
5
#11
Kenji Takahashi
5
#11
Martin Rex Dorricott
5
#11
Michio Oka
5
#11
Morgan W. A. David
5
#11
Shuichi Kikuchi
5
#11
Toshiharu Yanagida
5
#11
William S. Herz
5
#11
Yoshio Fujiwara
5
#11
Yuko Wada
5
#23
David Rossmere
4
#23
Eiji Ohshima
4
#23
Etsuro Saito
4
#23
Hiroshi Fujii
4
#23
Hideaki Kuroda
4
#23
Hisashi Masuda
4
#23
Hiroshi Okada
4
#23
Kazushi Kirihara
4
#23
Kazuya Yonemoto
4
#23
Keitaro Yamashita
4
#23
Koji Takagi
4
#23
Kouichi Yasuda
4
#23
Masayuki Nishiguchi
4
#23
Masumi Ono
4
#23
Maki Sato
4
#23
Miya Suwa
4
#23
Naoya Eguchi
4
#23
Naoto Iwahashi
4
#23
Noboru Murabayashi
4
#23
Ryuta Kanno
4
#23
Shigeyuki Kakizaki
4
#23
Shinichi Sumikawa
4
#23
Shunji Yoshimura
4
#23
Stephen Mark Keating
4
#23
Tadashi Fukami
4
#23
Tadakuni Narabu
4
#23
Tamotsu Yamagami
4
#23
Toshiyuki Ishii
4
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