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Sony
Rank (1997):
#8
of 13,859
Top 1%
1,361 inventors
967
Patents 1997
Top Inventors at Sony
1997
Showing 1–50 of 1,361 inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Jun Yonemitsu
9
1
Katsumi Tahara
9
1
Tetsujiro Kondo
9
#4
Hideyoshi Horimai
8
#4
Hitoshi Yoshinobu
8
#4
Yasushi Fujinami
8
#7
Akira Ishibashi
7
#7
Tohru Ogawa
7
#9
Ed Scott
6
#9
Kyoya Tsutsui
6
#9
Masayuki Nishiguchi
6
#9
Tetsuo Gocho
6
#9
Toru Takeda
6
#9
Yoichi Yagasaki
6
#15
Edward L. Boyd
5
#15
Eiji Iwata
5
#15
Goro Fujita
5
#15
Hiroyuki Miwa
5
#15
Junichi Aramaki
5
#15
Kenzo Akagiri
5
#15
Masaki Oguro
5
#15
Mehrdad Nayebi
5
#15
Michael J. Kohut
5
#15
Michio Oka
5
#15
Naofumi Yanagihara
5
#15
Ryuichi Iwamura
5
#15
Seiji Kobayashi
5
#15
Shigeo Tanaka
5
#15
Takashi Ikenaga
5
#15
Takashi Sawada
5
#15
Tetsu Watanabe
5
#15
Yasuhito Maki
5
#33
Akira Katsuyama
4
#33
Atsuo Omaru
4
#33
Duc Ngo
4
#33
Hideki Hirano
4
#33
Hideki Nagashima
4
#33
Hiroshi Suzuki
4
#33
James E. Wicks
4
#33
Jeffrey E. Taylor
4
#33
Junichi Sato
4
#33
Katsuakira Moriwake
4
#33
Kengo Ito
4
#33
Kenji Shinozaki
4
#33
Kunio Shimizu
4
#33
Makoto Furuhashi
4
#33
Makoto Kawamura
4
#33
Masakazu Suzuoki
4
#33
Masatoshi Ueno
4
#33
Mito Sonohara
4
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