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Yoshikazu Shinohara — 71 Patents

Apple: 30 patents #1,033 of 18,612Top 6%
FUFujifilm: 18 patents #451 of 4,519Top 10%
FUFujinon: 15 patents #14 of 339Top 5%
FCFuji Photo Optical Co.: 6 patents #93 of 509Top 20%
Sony: 2 patents #13,023 of 25,231Top 55%
Cupertino, CA: #164 of 6,989 inventorsTop 3%
California: #4,357 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #28,405 of 4,157,543Top 1%
71 Patents All Time
Yoshikazu Shinohara has been granted 71 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in February 2025. Yoshikazu Shinohara ranks #28,405 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.68%). Patent records list Yoshikazu Shinohara in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2019.peak 62001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 5 patents2015: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 6 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 4 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 5 patents2024: 6 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 71 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12216260 Optical system including lenses and prism for telephoto cameras Takeyoshi Saiga 2025-02-04
12216387 External recording indicators Justin J. Schwab, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Andrew Kenneth John McMahon, Jae Hwang Lee, Jerome Tu +4 more 2025-02-04
12177602 Light-folded projector Takeyoshi Saiga, Ligang Wang 2024-12-24 $240,476,000
12041394 Imaging system Kenichi Saito, Pierre-Jean Parodi-Keravec 2024-07-16 $239,464,000
12032146 Camera lens system Yuhong Yao, Miodrag Scepanovic 2024-07-09 $250,204,000
12000997 Zoom lens and imaging apparatus Masaharu Hosoi 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
11988851 Lens system with optical actuator Paul Christian Thomas Fuller, Iain A. McAllister 2024-05-21 $215,899,000
11899186 Folded lens system Yuhong Yao 2024-02-13 $152,277,000
11762174 Optical system including lenses and prism for telephoto cameras Takeyoshi Saiga 2023-09-19 $175,852,000
11686884 Light-absorbing flange lenses 2023-06-27 $366,465,000
11635597 Folded lens system with three refractive lenses Yuhong Yao 2023-04-25 $295,598,000
11604337 Folded lens system with five refractive lenses Yuhong Yao 2023-03-14 $318,065,000
11606539 Imaging system Kenichi Saito, Pierre-Jean Parodi-Keravec 2023-03-14 $318,065,000
11442342 Recording indicators Justin J. Schwab, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Andrew Kenneth John McMahon, Jae Hwang Lee, Jerome Tu +4 more 2022-09-13 $228,578,000
11347030 Imaging lens system Yuhong Yao, Lin-Yao Liao 2022-05-31 $175,196,000
11327561 Display system Kenichi Saito 2022-05-10 $259,428,000
11194133 Folded lens system with five refractive lenses Yuhong Yao 2021-12-07 $375,732,000
11163096 Lens system with optical actuator Paul Christian Thomas Fuller, Iain A. McAllister 2021-11-02 $262,399,000
11163141 Folded lens system with three refractive lenses Yuhong Yao 2021-11-02 $262,399,000
11029496 Folded lens system Yuhong Yao 2021-06-08 $378,421,000
10877556 Eye tracking system Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki, Ricardo J. Motta, Se Hoon Lim, Minwoong Kim, Kenichi Saito +2 more 2020-12-29 $213,143,000
10564401 Lens system 2020-02-18 $93,096,000
10437022 Folded lens system with five refractive lenses Yuhong Yao 2019-10-08 $92,329,000
10437023 Folded lens system with three refractive lenses Yuhong Yao 2019-10-08 $92,329,000
10310222 Imaging lens system Yuhong Yao 2019-06-04 $74,703,000