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— 941 Patents in 2020
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(2020):
#41
of
32,487
Top 1%
910
inventors
941
Patents 2020
Top Inventors at Nec
2020
Showing
1–50
of
910
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hisashi Futaki
40
2
Hiroaki Aminaka
22
3
Toshiyuki Tamura
21
#4
Manmohan Chandraker
20
#5
Ryoma Oami
17
#5
Yassin Aden AWAD
17
#7
Ghassan Karame
16
#7
Hiroo Ikeda
16
#9
Hiroyoshi Miyano
13
#9
Sadafuku Hayashi
13
#11
Hiroshi Yamada
12
#11
Yusuke Takahashi
12
#13
Kihyuk Sohn
11
#13
Xiang Yu
11
#15
Akira Kamei
10
#15
Robert Arnott
10
#15
Sampath Rangarajan
10
#18
Gang Wang
9
#18
Hideo Hasegawa
9
#18
Hui Zhang
9
#18
Keiichi Chono
9
#18
Rui Ishiyama
9
#18
Takuya Ogawa
9
#18
Toru Yamada
9
#18
Vivek Sharma
9
#26
Anand Raghawa Prasad
8
#26
Genadi Velev
8
#26
Jinsock Lee
8
#26
Masahiro Serizawa
8
#26
Masashi Shimoma
8
#26
Mohammad Khojastepour
8
#26
Paul Vernaza
8
#26
Ryo Kawai
8
#26
Satoshi Hasegawa
8
#26
Satoru Ishii
8
#26
Shintaro Nakano
8
#37
Guofei Jiang
7
#37
Karthikeyan Sundaresan
7
#37
Kenichiro Ida
7
#37
Kota Iwamoto
7
#37
Kyoji Hirata
7
#37
Noriyuki Tamura
7
#37
Phong Nguyen
7
#37
Roberto Bifulco
7
#37
Takanori Iwai
7
#37
Xiaowei Zhang
7
#47
Akio Tajima
6
#47
Andreas Kunz
6
#47
Ayuka Tada
6
#47
Eugene Chai
6
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