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Kao
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Kao
— 94 Patents in 2020
Rank
(2020):
#480
of
32,409
Top 2%
196
inventors
94
Patents 2020
Top Inventors at Kao
2020
Showing
1–50
of
196
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Kazuki Watanabe
5
1
Yasufumi Ueda
5
3
Tatsuo Shigeta
4
3
Yuta Matsumoto
4
#5
Hideo Kobayashi
3
#5
Keiichi Yoshikawa
3
#5
Masayuki Narita
3
#5
Naoko Saito
3
#5
Nobumichi Kamiyoshi
3
#5
Takashi Aoki
3
#5
Takashi Kubo
3
#5
Tatsuro Ozaki
3
#13
Burkhard Rose
2
#13
Daisuke Kodama
2
#13
Eiji Shirai
2
#13
Fumikazu Takahashi
2
#13
Hirokatsu Sugawara
2
#13
Hirotaka Takeno
2
#13
Jouji HIRAI
2
#13
Jonathan Wood
2
#13
Kota Ijichi
2
#13
Kunihiro Kano
2
#13
Norihiro Fukuri
2
#13
Nozomu Shibata
2
#13
Noritaka Takahashi
2
#13
Ryosuke Manabe
2
#13
Ryuma Mizushima
2
#13
Satoshi Ueno
2
#13
Shuichi Abe
2
#13
Shinji Kodama
2
#13
Shingo Koyama
2
#13
Shinji Sugihara
2
#13
Takuya Asada
2
#13
Takuma Kimura
2
#13
Takatoshi NIITSU
2
#13
Takahiro Sato
2
#13
Tatsuya Yamada
2
#13
Tadanori YOSHIMURA
2
#13
Toshiya Iwasaki
2
#13
Tsuyoshi Oda
2
#13
Youichi Endo
2
#13
Yoshiaki Kumamoto
2
#13
Yuri Nannichi
2
#13
Yuki Wakabayashi
2
#45
Aiko Onda
1
#45
Akira Hachiya
1
#45
Akito Itoi
1
#45
Akihito KAWAHARA
1
#45
Allison Linkugel
1
#45
Arisa Yamamoto
1
1
2
3
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