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Sony
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Sony
Rank
(2017):
#10
of
29,974
Top 1%
3,100
inventors
2,529
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Sony
2017
Showing
1–50
of
3,100
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Yoichiro Sako
42
2
Hiroaki Takano
38
3
Ryo Sawai
26
#4
Ola Thörn
24
#5
Keiji Mabuchi
23
#6
Kazuyuki Sakoda
22
#6
Yuichi Morioka
22
#8
True Xiong
21
#9
Charles McCoy
20
#9
Ryota Kimura
20
#11
Rickard Ljung
19
#11
Shunichi Kasahara
19
#13
Mitsuru Takehara
18
#13
Takatoshi Nakamura
18
#15
Akira Tange
17
#16
Erik Bengtsson
16
#16
Kenichi Kawase
16
#18
Akio Ohba
15
#18
Katsuhide Uchino
15
#18
Kohei Asada
15
#18
Toru Chinen
15
#22
Henrik Bengtsson
14
#22
Tadahiko Kubota
14
#22
Zhinong Ying
14
#25
David Perry
13
#25
Gary M. Zalewski
13
#25
Hiroyuki Segawa
13
#25
Junichi Yamashita
13
#25
Kazushi Sato
13
#25
Ling Jun Wong
13
#31
Kazuyuki Yamamoto
12
#31
Masanori Hosomi
12
#31
Shinobu Hattori
12
#31
Stephen G. Perlman
12
#31
Yutaka Higo
12
#36
Brant Candelore
11
#36
Hiroyuki Ohmori
11
#36
Hideji WAKABAYASHI
11
#36
Ikuo Yamano
11
#36
Kazutaka Yamane
11
#36
Matthew William Webb
11
#36
Peter Shintani
11
#36
Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira
11
#36
Seiji Kobayashi
11
#36
Tsubasa Tsukahara
11
#36
Yuki Yamamoto
11
#47
Gregory Carlsson
10
#47
Jeffrey Roger Stafford
10
#47
Jonas Gustavsson
10
#47
Junichi Rekimoto
10
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