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Sony
Sony
Rank
(2016):
#10
of
28,424
Top 1%
3,273
inventors
2,457
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Sony
2016
Showing
1–50
of
3,273
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Yoichiro Sako
34
2
Hiroaki Takano
25
3
Hiroyuki Ohmori
22
3
Kazuhiro Bessho
22
3
Kazutaka Yamane
22
3
Masanori Hosomi
22
3
Takatoshi Nakamura
22
3
Yutaka Higo
22
#9
Akira Tange
21
#9
Keiji Mabuchi
21
#11
Hiroyuki Uchida
20
#11
Katsuhide Uchino
20
#11
Kohei Asada
20
#14
Kazuyuki Sakoda
18
#15
Kazushi Sato
17
#15
Mitsuru Takehara
17
#15
Naohisa Kitazato
17
#15
True Xiong
17
#19
David Perry
15
#19
Rickard Ljung
15
#19
Ryo Sawai
15
#22
Brant Candelore
14
#22
Frederick J. Zustak
14
#22
Gary M. Zalewski
14
#22
Shunichi Kasahara
14
#26
Kazuhiro Watanabe
13
#26
Ling Jun Wong
13
#26
Takayasu Kon
13
#26
Takuro Noda
13
#26
Tetsuya Asayama
13
#26
Tomoya Onuma
13
#32
Charles McCoy
12
#32
Kazunori Hayashi
12
#32
Lothar Stadelmeier
12
#32
Ola Thörn
12
#32
Shuji Hiramatsu
12
#32
Taku Sugawara
12
#32
Yasunori Kamada
12
#39
Hiroyuki Hanaya
11
#39
Steven Richman
11
#39
Takanori Washiro
11
#39
Tetsuji Yamaguchi
11
#39
Yuki Koga
11
#39
Yuichi Morioka
11
#45
Hideyuki Suzuki
10
#45
Ian Henry Bickerstaff
10
#45
Kenji Tokutake
10
#45
Osamu Shigeta
10
#45
Seiichiro Jinta
10
#45
Tatsushi Nashida
10
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