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Nikon
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Nikon
— 235 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#146
of
28,420
Top 1%
289
inventors
235
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Nikon
2016
Showing
1–50
of
289
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Yuichi Shibazaki
18
2
Hiroyuki Nagasaka
12
3
Michael Sogard
6
3
Osamu Tanitsu
6
3
Soichi Owa
6
#6
Eric Peter Goodwin
5
#6
Kazuharu Imafuji
5
#6
Shinji Sato
5
#6
Yasujiro Kiyota
5
#6
Yasuhiro Omura
5
#11
Douglas C. Watson
4
#11
Haruo Sato
4
#11
Hideya Inoue
4
#11
Li Hong
4
#11
Masafumi Oikawa
4
#11
Michael Binnard
4
#11
Radka Tezaur
4
#11
Yosuke Kusaka
4
#11
Yuho Kanaya
4
#20
Akihiko Obama
3
#20
Akira Ohmura
3
#20
Andrew J. Hazelton
3
#20
Daniel Gene Smith
3
#20
Hirofumi Shiono
3
#20
Koji Shigematsu
3
#20
Makoto Shibuta
3
#20
Muneki Hamashima
3
#20
Naoyuki Kobayashi
3
#20
Naomasa Shiraishi
3
#20
Pai-Hsueh Yang
3
#20
Shigeru Hirukawa
3
#20
Shinichi Nakajima
3
#20
Takaya Okada
3
#20
Takayuki Uozumi
3
#20
Yasuo Aoki
3
#36
Akira Nojima
2
#36
Alton H. Phillips
2
#36
Alex Ka Tim Poon
2
#36
Dai Arai
2
#36
David M. Williamson
2
#36
Hideaki Asano
2
#36
Hiroyuki Hirota
2
#36
Hideki Ito
2
#36
Hironobu Murata
2
#36
Hirotake Nozaki
2
#36
Hisao Osawa
2
#36
Hiroaki Takaiwa
2
#36
Hirohisa Tanaka
2
#36
Issei Tanaka
2
#36
Kazuhiko Fukazawa
2
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