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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Otsu, JP ranks #459 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 286 patents from 175 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Otsu, JP include Toray Industries, Tokuden Co., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha.

Showing 1–50 of 175 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Masataka Nakamura Toray Industries 6
1 Daisuke Izuhara Toray Industries 6
1 Hiroho Hirozawa Toray Industries 6
#4 Hiroshi Taiko Toray Industries 5
#4 Toru Tonomura Tokuden Co. 5
#4 Mitsuhito Suwa Toray Industries 5
#4 Hiroshi Hamada Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 5
#8 Kazuhiko Fujisawa Johnson & Johnson 4
#8 Hirokazu Kubota Konica Minolta 4
#8 Masaaki Kadomi Nippon Electric Glass Co. 4
#8 Masanori Wada Nippon Electric Glass Co. 4
#8 Yoshinobu Hemmi Omron 4
#8 Tomoyuki Kunita Toray Industries 4
#8 Masakazu Koiwa Toray Industries 4
#15 Hideto Chono Takara Bio 3
#15 Shinichi Matsuki Toray Industries 3
#15 Hiromichi Sasamoto Toray Industries 3
#15 Masaru Shimomura Mitsubishi Electric 3
#15 Rumiko Kitagawa Toray Industries 3
#15 Eiji Kumagai Sony 3
#15 Isao Manabe Toray Industries 3
#15 Masao Tomikawa Toray Industries 3
#15 Hiroshi Tsuchikura Toray Industries 3
#15 Toshihisa Nonaka Toray Industries 3
#15 Yuichiro Iguchi Toray Industries 3
#15 Yosuke Taniguchi Konica Minolta 3
#15 Tsutomu Akechi Toyobo Co. 3
#15 Yoshiyuki Ueno Toray Industries 3
#29 Keiichi Sahara Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#29 Yuji Kawata Toray Industries 2
#29 Katsuyuki Dodo Takara Bio 2
#29 Takashi Nishimiya Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#29 Yoshihiko Sakaguchi Toray Industries 2
#29 Joji Funakoshi Toray Industries 2
#29 Takeshi Kubo Sony 2
#29 Akira Komoto Shimadzu 2
#29 Junsuke Morita Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha 2
#29 Tsubasa Hamano Toray Industries 2
#29 Shigeyuki Naka National University Corporation Shiga University Of Medical Science 2
#29 Shogo Tokoi Murata Manufacturing Co. 2
#29 Akio NAKABAYASHI Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#29 Xiang Ruan Omron 2
#29 Koji Kadowaki Toray Industries 2
#29 Katsuhiro Minomo Toray Industries 2
#29 Koji Ikegami Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#29 Tatsuo Hirai Maeda Metal Industries 2
#29 Daisaku Tanaka Toray Industries 2
#29 Tsuyoshi Hamada Toray Industries 2
#29 Norihiro Takeuchi Toray Industries 2
#29 Kazutaka Kusano Toray Industries 2