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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Nara, JP ranks #286 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 457 patents from 183 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Nara, JP include Panasonic, Sony, Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co..

Showing 1–50 of 183 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Takahiro NISHI Panasonic 72
2 Jun Ozawa Panasonic 16
3 Yoshihiko Matsukawa Panasonic 10
#4 Yuki Kobayashi Sony 9
#4 Kazuyuki Yamae Panasonic 9
#6 Hiroyuki Asano Panasonic 8
#7 Yuka Yamada Panasonic 7
#7 Yumi Wakita Panasonic 7
#9 Tomoyuki Haga Panasonic 6
#9 Takehiko Tanaka Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co. 6
#9 Akinori Hiramatu Panasonic 6
#12 Aoi Watanabe Panasonic 5
#12 Koyuru Nakano Omron 5
#12 Tetsuya Asano Panasonic 5
#12 Makoto Mihara Canon 5
#12 Kohei Nakata Panasonic 5
#12 Kiyotaka Takehara Panasonic 5
#18 Koichi Kusukame Panasonic 4
#18 Katsuhiko Hayashi Panasonic 4
#18 Shun Ueki Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 4
#18 Akinori Yukimasa Panasonic 4
#18 Yoshio Urabe Panasonic 4
#18 Akihiro Sakai Panasonic 4
#24 Hironobu Machida Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 3
#24 Toshimichi Iwai Konica Minolta 3
#24 Tsutomu Yoshikawa Panasonic 3
#24 Takashi Kashimoto Sumitomo Electric Industries 3
#24 Ikuhei Kimura Murata Manufacturing Co. 3
#24 Yuki Terada Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) Limited 3
#24 Shuji Saiki Panasonic 3
#24 Kouichi Takemura Panasonic 3
#24 Masato Himeda Panasonic 3
#24 Kaoru Murase Sumitomo Electric Industries 3
#24 Takayuki Akai IBM 3
#24 Akihisa Adachi Panasonic 3
#24 Seizoh Kakimoto Sharp Laboratories Of America 3
#24 Hiroyuki Oura Lixil 3
#24 Kou Komori Panasonic 3
#24 Daisuke Ueyama Kyocera 3
#24 Morio Tomiyama Panasonic 3
#24 Stephen William John Panasonic 3
#24 Yuji Nakabayashi Panasonic 3
#24 Masato Satou Panasonic 3
#24 Yukiko Yanagawa Omron 3
#24 Noriaki Kuwahara Empire Technology Development 3
#24 Shinichi Shikii Panasonic 3
#24 Akinori Hiramatsu Panasonic 3
#24 Tsutomu Miyasato Empire Technology Development 3
#49 Koji Nakagawa Citizen Watch Co. 2
#49 Morihiro Hideta Dmg Mori Co. 2