Top Inventors at Yahoo Japan 2016
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akira Iwamoto | 5 |
| 2 | Koji Tsukamoto | 4 |
| 3 | Akira Tajima | 3 |
| #4 | Hiroyuki Kato | 3 |
| #5 | Kazuhiko Shimura | 3 |
| #6 | Shinsuke Itoh | 3 |
| #7 | Takenobu Dei | 3 |
| #8 | Yasufumi Hirai | 3 |
| #9 | Ayaka Hirano | 2 |
| #10 | Hiroki Sasakido | 2 |
| #11 | Kota TSUBOUCHI | 2 |
| #12 | Mariko Suzuki | 2 |
| #13 | Munehiro Azami | 2 |
| #14 | Ai Ito | 1 |
| #15 | Akira Sugimoto | 1 |
| #16 | Chihiro Sugioka | 1 |
| #17 | Chiemi Taki | 1 |
| #18 | Chika Watanabe | 1 |
| #19 | Hidehito Gomi | 1 |
| #20 | Hiroshi Machida | 1 |
| #21 | Hiroko Ota | 1 |
| #22 | Hiroshi Ota | 1 |
| #23 | Katsufumi Asai | 1 |
| #24 | Kenji Fujimoto | 1 |
| #25 | Kentaro Kazama | 1 |
| #26 | Kiichi Fukatsu | 1 |
| #27 | Koji Uno | 1 |
| #28 | Masanori Hara | 1 |
| #29 | Masajiro Iwasaki | 1 |
| #30 | Miki Hirai | 1 |
| #31 | Miho Shinozaki | 1 |
| #32 | Naoki Iwasawa | 1 |
| #33 | Norihiro Arita | 1 |
| #34 | Nobuyuki Shimizu | 1 |
| #35 | Ryuki SAKAMOTO | 1 |
| #36 | Shinya Aoki | 1 |
| #37 | Shingo HOSHINO | 1 |
| #38 | Shigetoshi Okuyama | 1 |
| #39 | Shinichiro SEGA | 1 |
| #40 | Takamitsu IRIYAMA | 1 |
| #41 | Taku KUSANO | 1 |
| #42 | Takeshi Mori | 1 |
| #43 | Teruhiko TERAOKA | 1 |
| #44 | Yasushi Kokubo | 1 |
| #45 | Yasuhiro SUKEMITSU | 1 |
| #46 | Yasuo Tomine | 1 |
| #47 | Yuichi Kitajima | 1 |
| #48 | Yuki Sekine | 1 |
| #49 | Yuki Uchida | 1 |