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Sony
Sony
Rank
(2017):
#10
of
29,974
Top 1%
3,100
inventors
2,529
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Sony
2017
Showing
401–450
of
3,100
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#267
Zhongbin Qin
4
#402
Akihiko Kaino
3
#402
Akira Nakamura
3
#402
Akira Suzuki
3
#402
Akira Takamuku
3
#402
Akichika Tanaka
3
#402
Akira Yumoto
3
#402
Atsuo Fujimaki
3
#402
Atsushi Kajita
3
#402
Atsushi Kimura
3
#402
Aya Shuto
3
#402
Brian Watson
3
#402
Brian Michael Christopher Watson
3
#402
Daisuke Ogawa
3
#402
Daniel Usikov
3
#402
Dominic S. Mallinson
3
#402
Eiji Kumagai
3
#402
Eiji Otani
3
#402
Emil Hansson
3
#402
Eric Larsen
3
#402
Frederick Umminger
3
#402
Gakuji Hashimoto
3
#402
Gerda Fuhrmann
3
#402
Gen Ichimura
3
#402
Glenn Black
3
#402
Hideshi Abe
3
#402
Hideki Iwami
3
#402
Hiroyuki Kawahara
3
#402
Hideyuki Matsunaga
3
#402
Hiroyuki Meguro
3
#402
Hiroshi Mizuno
3
#402
Hiroyuki Mizunuma
3
#402
Hiroki Nagahama
3
#402
Hiroshi Nakayama
3
#402
Hirotoshi Nomura
3
#402
Hiroshige Okamoto
3
#402
Hirofumi Okamoto
3
#402
Hiroshi Sagawa
3
#402
Hironori Sato
3
#402
Hiroki Sato
3
#402
Hirofumi Sumi
3
#402
Hiroaki Takahashi
3
#402
Hiroshi Takahashi
3
#402
Hiroki Takakura
3
#402
Hiroshi Tayanaka
3
#402
Hiroshi Tazawa
3
#402
Hideki Watanabe
3
#402
Hidetoshi Watanabe
3
#402
Hideshi Yamada
3
#402
Hiroyuki Yasukochi
3
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