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Nikon
Rank (2021):
#232
of 31,507
Top 1%
257 inventors
173
Patents 2021
Top Inventors at Nikon
2021
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Atsushi Komai
8
2
Kosuke Machida
7
3
Akihiko KAWAI
6
#4
Daniel Gene Smith
5
#5
Koji Nagaoka
5
#6
Michael Binnard
5
#7
Naoki Sekiguchi
5
#8
Fumihiro Dake
4
#9
Hideya Inoue
4
#10
Masahiro Juen
4
#11
Osamu SARUWATARI
4
#12
Shigeru Matsumoto
4
#13
Yasuo Aoki
4
#14
Akinori Shirato
3
#15
Daisaku Komiya
3
#16
David M. Williamson
3
#17
Eric Peter Goodwin
3
#18
Hidenori Kuribayashi
3
#19
Makoto Imamizu
3
#20
Masakazu Sekiguchi
3
#21
Noriyasu Kotani
3
#22
Sota Nakanishi
3
#23
Stephen P. Renwick
3
#24
Takayuki Funaoka
3
#25
Takeaki SUGIMURA
3
#26
Takeshi Umeda
3
#27
Toru Takagi
3
#28
Wataru Funamizu
3
#29
Yoshihiro Nakagawa
3
#30
Yuichi Shibazaki
3
#31
Akitoshi Kawai
2
#32
Akira Kinoshita
2
#33
Akihiko Obama
2
#34
Atsushi Hara
2
#35
Donis Flagello
2
#36
Fuminori Hayano
2
#37
Go ICHINOSE
2
#38
Hajime MITSUISHI
2
#39
Hiroaki KII
2
#40
Hironobu Murata
2
#41
Hisao Osawa
2
#42
Hiroki Takita
2
#43
Ichiro Sase
2
#44
Isao Sugaya
2
#45
Jonathan K. Wells
2
#46
Kazuharu Imafuji
2
#47
Kenji Baba
2
#48
Keigo Koida
2
#49
Koji Yamagaki
2
#50
Masaki Kato
2
#51
Masafumi Oikawa
2
#52
Matthew Rosa
2
#53
Marie Shimoyama
2
#54
Masashi Yamashita
2
#55
Minoru Fukuda
2
#56
Nobukatsu MACHII
2
#57
Osamu Katsuda
2
#58
Paul Derek Coon
2
#59
Ryo Kobayashi
2
#60
Ryosuke Komatsu
2
#61
Satoshi Kazahaya
2
#62
Saburo Masugi
2
#63
Shiro Tsunai
2
#64
Takashi Shibuya
2
#65
Takashi SHIONOYA
2
#66
Taro Ueno
2
#67
Tomoki Ito
2
#68
Toru Iwane
2
#69
Toshiyuki KANBARA
2
#70
Yasujiro Kiyota
2
#71
Yoshihisa Saito
2
#72
Yuki Kita
2
#73
Yutaka Nikaido
2
#74
Akira Izumi
1
#75
Akihiro Ueda
1
#76
Akihiro Watanabe
1
#77
Alex Ka Tim Poon
1
#78
Atsushi Miyamoto
1
#79
Atsushi Sekine
1
#80
Atsushi Shibayama
1
#81
Atsushi Tanaka
1
#82
Azusa MUTO
1
#83
Brett William Herr
1
#84
Chiori Saito
1
#85
David A. Agard
1
#86
Daiju Nakajima
1
#87
Eiji Mikamoto
1
#88
Fumi Kano
1
#89
Gaurav Keswani
1
#90
Goldie Goldstein
1
#91
Guillaume Cantagrel
1
#92
Hirofumi Arima
1
#93
Hiroyuki Asano
1
#94
Hideaki Hara
1
#95
Hiroshi KAMEHARA
1
#96
Hidehiro Maeda
1
#97
Hiroyuki Nagasaka
1
#98
Hiroshi Nakagiri
1
#99
Hiroshi Ohki
1
#100
Hidefumi Ota
1