Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tokyo, JP ranks #1 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 25,216 patents from 13,051 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tokyo, JP include Ntt Docomo, Kyocera, Sony.

Showing 1–50 of 13,051 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kazuaki Takeda Ntt Docomo 43
2 Chiharu Yamazaki Kyocera 41
3 Hiroaki Takano Sony 38
#4 Nobuharu Yokoyama Pdf Solutions 37
#5 Tooru Uchino Ntt Docomo 33
#6 Takahisa Suzuki Fujitsu Limited 31
#7 Hayato Kurasawa Japan Display 29
#8 Yuki Yamamoto Sony 27
#8 Ryo Sawai Sony 27
#10 Koji Noguchi Japan Display 25
#11 Keisuke Nakamura Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited 23
#11 Daisuke Yoshida Canon 23
#13 Tohru Hasegawa IBM 22
#14 Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari Ntt Docomo 21
#15 Junichi Yamashita Sony 20
#15 Ryota Kimura Sony 20
#15 Yoshiyuki Tanaka Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 20
#18 Kazuki Takeda Ntt Docomo 19
#18 Hisashi Futaki Nec 19
#18 Tetsuhiro Tanaka Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 19
#18 Takashi Kobayashi Hitachi 19
#22 Mitsuru Takehara Sony 18
#23 Akira Tange Sony 17
#23 Takashi Watanabe Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 17
#23 Akira Sakaigawa Japan Display 17
#26 Takanori Iwai Nec 16
#26 Hiroshi Saito Canon 16
#26 Masaya Hashimoto Kantatsu Co. 16
#26 Toshiyuki Tamura Nec 16
#26 Kazunori Hatakeyama Mitsubishi Electric 16
#26 Yusuke Fujiwara Toyota 16
#26 Masaki Yamada Canon 16
#26 Kenichiro Aoyagi Ntt Docomo 16
#26 Hiromasa Takagi Ricoh Company 16
#26 Naofumi Takenaka Mitsubishi Electric 16
#36 Jin Hirosawa Japan Display 15
#36 Choong Seng Boon Ntt Docomo 15
#36 Takeshi Kaneko Tgk Co. 15
#36 Akio Ohba Sony 15
#36 Takayuki Yamamoto Toyota 15
#36 Shinsaku Kusube Mitsubishi Electric 15
#36 Toru Chinen Sony 15
#36 Miho Maeda Mitsubishi Electric 15
#44 Motonao Niizuma Ihi 14
#44 Hiroshi Matsuda Canon 14
#44 Hiroyuki Segawa Sony 14
#47 Tomohiro Shioya IBM 13
#47 Satoshi Matsubara Fujitsu Limited 13
#47 Shunsuke Miyamoto Komatsu 13
#47 Hideo Kanai Ricoh Company 13