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Sony
Sony
— 2,683 Patents in 2021
Rank
(2021):
#9
of
31,507
Top 1%
3,148
inventors
2,683
Patents 2021
Top Inventors at Sony
2021
Showing
1–50
of
3,148
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Brian Alexander Martin
50
2
Hideji WAKABAYASHI
44
3
Yuxin WEI
41
#4
Martin Warwick Beale
37
#4
Shin Horng Wong
37
#6
Shinichiro Tsuda
34
#7
Chen Sun
31
#7
Xin Guo
31
#9
Yuichi Morioka
28
#10
Ikuo Tsukagoshi
26
#11
Hiroaki Takano
25
#11
Ikuo Yamano
25
#13
Anders BERGGREN
22
#14
Vivek SHARMA
21
#14
Yusuke Nakagawa
21
#16
Kazuyuki Shimezawa
19
#16
Shinichi Kawano
19
#18
Basuki PRIYANTO
17
#18
Brant Candelore
17
#18
Makiko Yamamoto
17
#18
Minoru Yamaga
17
#22
Glenn Black
16
#22
Rickard Ljung
16
#22
Ryota Kimura
16
#25
Hiromasa Uchiyama
15
#25
Kazuyuki Sakoda
15
#25
Mari Saito
15
#25
Ryo Sawai
15
#25
Shigeru Sugaya
15
#30
Erik Bengtsson
14
#30
Sho Furuichi
14
#30
Yuji Shinohara
14
#33
Ali Tabatabai
13
#33
Hiroki Matsuda
13
#33
Jeffrey Roger Stafford
13
#33
Mark Evan Cerny
13
#33
Peter Shintani
13
#38
Jianfei CAO
12
#38
Jinhui Chen
12
#38
Steven Osman
12
#38
Yusuke Tanaka
12
#42
David Perry
11
#42
Kohei Asada
11
#42
Lars Nord
11
#42
Masaki Sakakibara
11
#42
Naoki Kusashima
11
#42
Ryo Yokoyama
11
#42
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
11
#42
Tetsuo Ikeda
11
#42
Yasushi Okumura
11
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1,695
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848
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829
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677
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569