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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Nara, JP ranks #242 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 477 patents from 212 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Nara, JP include Panasonic, Sony, Omron.

Showing 1–50 of 212 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Takahiro NISHI Panasonic 47
2 Jun Ozawa Panasonic 22
3 Akinori Hiramatu Panasonic 14
#4 Katsuhiko Hayashi Panasonic 8
#4 Yuka Yamada Panasonic 8
#4 Shinobu Adachi Panasonic 8
#4 Yuki Kobayashi Sony 8
#8 Akihiro Sakai Panasonic 7
#8 Shinichi Shikii Panasonic 7
#8 Kiyotaka Takehara Panasonic 7
#11 Toshiya Yokogawa Panasonic 6
#12 Kohei Nakata Panasonic 5
#12 Kojiro Okuyama Panasonic 5
#12 Shuji Saiki Panasonic 5
#12 Akihisa Adachi Panasonic 5
#12 Kunihiro Ukai Panasonic 5
#12 Takeyuki Yamaki Panasonic 5
#18 Aoi Watanabe Panasonic 4
#18 Koyuru Nakano Omron 4
#18 Yoshio Urabe Panasonic 4
#18 Yuji Nakabayashi Panasonic 4
#18 Akinori Yukimasa Panasonic 4
#18 Hiroyuki Asano Panasonic 4
#18 Yuji Zenitani Panasonic 4
#18 Kazuhiko Tsuda Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 4
#18 Koichi Kusukame Panasonic 4
#18 Junichi Minamino Panasonic 4
#18 Tetsuya Asano Panasonic 4
#18 Koji Katayama Sumitomo Electric Industries 4
#18 Hiroki Takeoka Panasonic 4
#18 Hiroshi Sameshima Omron 4
#18 Tomoyuki Haga Panasonic 4
#33 Takehiro Nishioka Panasonic 3
#33 Takeo Yasuda IBM 3
#33 Aris Maroonian Jtekt 3
#33 Yumi Wakita Panasonic 3
#33 Fumitomo Yamasaki Panasonic 3
#33 Yasutaka Tanimura Konica Minolta Opto 3
#33 Shun Ueki Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 3
#33 Harumitsu Miyashita Panasonic 3
#33 Takumi Kato Teijin Limited 3
#33 Kou Komori Panasonic 3
#33 Akinobu Okuda Panasonic 3
#33 Arata Kishi Panasonic 3
#33 Kazutaka Ikeda Panasonic 3
#33 Toshiki Itoi Panasonic 3
#33 Youji Tachino Panasonic 3
#48 Takehiko Shigeoka Panasonic 2
#48 Manabu KANAYA Jtekt 2
#48 Takanori Nakano Jsr 2