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Sony
Sony
Rank
(2018):
#13
of
30,013
Top 1%
2,835
inventors
2,234
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Sony
2018
Showing
1–50
of
2,835
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Ryo Sawai
26
1
Yoichiro Sako
26
3
Kazuyuki Sakoda
23
#4
Hiroaki Takano
22
#4
Ryota Kimura
22
#4
Yuichi Morioka
22
#7
Hideji WAKABAYASHI
20
#8
Matthew William Webb
19
#8
Rickard Ljung
19
#8
True Xiong
19
#11
Katsutoshi Itoh
18
#11
Kazushi Sato
18
#11
Keiji Mabuchi
18
#14
Ali Tabatabai
17
#14
Brian Alexander Martin
17
#14
Charles McCoy
17
#14
David Perry
17
#14
Katsuhide Uchino
17
#14
Shunichi Kasahara
17
#20
Jeffrey Roger Stafford
16
#20
Ohji Nakagami
16
#20
Takatoshi Nakamura
16
#23
Tsubasa Tsukahara
15
#24
Ikuo Yamano
14
#24
Kazuyuki Yamamoto
14
#24
Kohei Asada
14
#27
Shinichiro Tsuda
13
#27
Xin Guo
13
#29
Brant Candelore
12
#29
Chen Sun
12
#29
Gary M. Zalewski
12
#29
Hideyuki Suzuki
12
#29
Ola Thörn
12
#29
Seiichiro Jinta
12
#29
Sho Furuichi
12
#29
Toshifumi Wakano
12
#37
Akira Tange
11
#37
Junichi Tanaka
11
#37
Jun Xu
11
#37
Junichi Yamashita
11
#37
Masanori Hosomi
11
#37
Masanori Sato
11
#37
Ming-Chang Liu
11
#37
Mitsuru Takehara
11
#37
Nishiki Mizusawa
11
#37
Peter Shintani
11
#37
Takuro Noda
11
#37
Tomoya Yamaura
11
#37
Yutaka Higo
11
#50
Erik Bengtsson
10
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545