Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Hiroshima, JP ranks #145 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 989 patents from 532 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Hiroshima, JP include Mazda Motor, Ikeda Food Research Co., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor.

Showing 1–50 of 532 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Masanari Sueoka Mazda Motor 23
2 Keiji Maruyama Mazda Motor 15
3 Takuya Ohura Mazda Motor 13
#4 Osamu Sunahara Mazda Motor 11
#4 Daisuke Umetsu Mazda Motor 11
#6 Katsuyuki Komiya Mazda Motor 9
#6 Yasunori Takahara Mazda Motor 9
#6 Hidenori Matsuoka Mazda Motor 9
#9 Naotoshi Shirahashi Mazda Motor 8
#9 Hironori Omura Ikeda Food Research Co. 8
#9 Tatsuhiko Iwasaki Mazda Motor 8
#9 Masayoshi Higashio Mazda Motor 8
#9 Emi Ishimaru Ikeda Food Research Co. 8
#9 Tetsunari Morita Ikeda Food Research Co. 8
#9 Hirokazu Sanada Ikeda Food Research Co. 8
#9 Tomotaka Ishizaka Mazda Motor 8
#9 Takako Yada Ikeda Food Research Co. 8
#18 Hideki Nagao Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor 7
#18 Shintaro Sakitani Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. 7
#20 Tomohiro Nakagawa Komatsu 6
#20 Taiki Maiguma Mazda Motor 6
#20 Yasuyuki Tanaka Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 6
#20 Keishi Kitabatake Mazda Motor 6
#24 Yugou Sunagare Mazda Motor 5
#24 Masaki Chiba Nec 5
#24 Hiroyuki Miyata Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor 5
#24 Toshiaki Kamo Mazda Motor 5
#24 Daisaku Ogawa Mazda Motor 5
#24 Chikako Ohisa Mazda Motor 5
#24 Goro Tsuboi Mazda Motor 5
#24 Eiji Kiyonaga Chugoku Electric Power Co. 5
#24 Tamotsu Takamure Mazda Motor 5
#24 Shinpei Kato Yazaki 5
#24 Shota Yamakawa Mazda Motor 5
#24 Keiichi Tomii Mazda Motor 5
#24 Kenji Hikino Chugoku Electric Power Co. 5
#24 Keiichiro Morita Chugoku Electric Power Co. 5
#24 Hiroto Kido Mazda Motor 5
#24 Yuuki Uchiba Mazda Motor 5
#24 Yudai Koshiro Mazda Motor 5
#41 Toshifumi Matsuura Nishikawa Rubber Co. 4
#41 Yasunori Uesugi Mazda Motor 4
#41 Mitsuru Morita Nippon Steel 4
#41 Tsunehiro Mori Mazda Motor 4
#41 Toshiro Ueta Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. 4
#41 Hiroaki Oka Panasonic 4
#41 Kaoru Adachi Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. 4
#41 Hiroshi Minamoto Mazda Motor 4
#41 Norio Iwashita Mazda Motor 4
#41 Koichi Hirata Sanyo Electric Co. 4