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Otsu, JP 2018

294 patents  ·  191 inventors

Ranked #440 of 41,834 cities Top 2%

Otsu, JP ranks #440 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 294 patents from 191 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Otsu, JP include Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Toray Industries, Konica Minolta.

Showing 1–50 of 191 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hiroshi Hamada Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 6
2 Hiroshi Tsuchikura Toray Industries 5
2 Yoshiyuki Ueno Toray Industries 5
2 Yosuke Taniguchi Konica Minolta 5
2 Kosaku Takeuchi Toray Industries 5
2 Tomoyuki Horiguchi Toray Industries 5
2 Takaaki Mihara Toray Industries 5
2 Kentaro Kobayashi Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 5
#9 Koji Kadowaki Toray Industries 4
#9 Mamoru Egi Omron 4
#9 Eiji Kumagai Sony 4
#12 Masayuki Ikemoto Toyota 3
#12 Naoki Fujita Fanuc 3
#12 Naotoshi Tomita Toray Industries 3
#12 Masayuki Hanakawa Toray Industries 3
#12 Mitsuhito Suwa Toray Industries 3
#12 Masataka Nakamura Toray Industries 3
#12 Hiroaki Ueda Nec 3
#12 Tsubasa Hamano Toray Industries 3
#12 Masaru Shimomura Mitsubishi Electric 3
#12 Masanori Wada Nippon Electric Glass Co. 3
#12 Noriaki Kato Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co. 3
#12 Masaaki Kadomi Nippon Electric Glass Co. 3
#12 Kimihiro Mabuchi Nipro 3
#25 Teruyuki Taninaka Toyobo Co. 2
#25 Masakazu Fukushima Hitachi 2
#25 Norihiro Takeuchi Toray Industries 2
#25 Takahiro Tanino Toray Industries 2
#25 Hidenori Daido Mitsui Chemicals 2
#25 Hideo YAMAUCHI Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#25 Takashi Uemori Takara Bio 2
#25 Masamichi Utsunomiya Toray Industries 2
#25 Toru Tonomura Tokuden Co. 2
#25 Yoshitsugu Funatsu Toray Industries 2
#25 Tomotaka Takahashi Mitutoyo 2
#25 Katsuyuki Dodo Takara Bio 2
#25 Takashi Nishimiya Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#25 Shohei Fujiwara Kyocera Document Solutions 2
#25 Kiyoyuki Matsumura Takara Bio 2
#25 Toshiyasu Hibino Toray Industries 2
#25 Hiroyuki Wakui Toyobo Co. 2
#25 Yumi Oka Toray Industries 2
#25 Atsushi Kuwabara Citizen Electronics Co. 2
#25 Kazuhiko Fujisawa Johnson & Johnson 2
#25 Daisuke Izuhara Toray Industries 2
#25 Fumio Sato Nippon Electric Glass Co. 2
#25 Tohru Tani National University Corporation Shiga University Of Medical Science 2
#25 Tsutomu Sada Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 2
#25 Masao Tomikawa Toray Industries 2
#25 Tomoyuki Yuba Toray Industries 2

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