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Nikon
— 250 Patents in 2018
Rank
(2018):
#141
of
30,013
Top 1%
309
inventors
250
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Nikon
2018
Showing
1–50
of
309
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Yuichi Shibazaki
32
2
Shinji Sato
9
3
Hiroyuki Nagasaka
6
3
Kiyoshige Shibazaki
6
#5
Akihiko Obama
4
#5
Chikara Fujita
4
#5
Daniel Gene Smith
4
#5
Hiroyuki Asano
4
#5
Kenichi Ishiga
4
#5
Masakazu Sekiguchi
4
#5
Michael Binnard
4
#5
Muneki Hamashima
4
#5
Shigeru Hirukawa
4
#5
Soichi Owa
4
#5
Susumu Mori
4
#5
Tomoyuki Sashima
4
#5
Yasuhiro Omura
4
#18
Alton H. Phillips
3
#18
Chiori Saito
3
#18
Eric Peter Goodwin
3
#18
Hideaki Hara
3
#18
Hideya Inoue
3
#18
Hideki Ito
3
#18
Hisao Osawa
3
#18
Hiroaki Takaiwa
3
#18
Junji Suzuki
3
#18
Kenji Abe
3
#18
Keiji Gohara
3
#18
Kenichi Soejima
3
#18
Kuno SUZUKI
3
#18
Maki Shimizu
3
#18
Michael Sogard
3
#18
Osamu Tanitsu
3
#18
Seina Takahashi
3
#18
Suzuka Fujita
3
#18
Takanori Ichiki
3
#18
Tomoharu Fujiwara
3
#18
Toshimitsu Nojima
3
#18
Yasujiro Kiyota
3
#18
Yosuke Kusaka
3
#18
Yukio Kubota
3
#18
Yuri Manabe
3
#18
Yuki Nomura
3
#18
Yumiko Ouchi
3
#18
Zhigiang Liu
3
#46
Akira Tokuhisa
2
#46
Andrew J. Hazelton
2
#46
Atsushi Suzuki
2
#46
Chetan Mahadeswaraswamy
2
#46
Chihiro Tsukamoto
2
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