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Hiroaki Nishimura — 67 Patents

ASAsics: 25 patents #7 of 285Top 3%
Panasonic: 8 patents #3,332 of 21,108Top 20%
Sony: 7 patents #6,060 of 25,231Top 25%
HCHirose Electric Co.: 5 patents #71 of 407Top 20%
NCNippondenso Co.: 3 patents #799 of 3,479Top 25%
DLDenka Company Limited: 3 patents #97 of 434Top 25%
Mitsubishi Electric: 3 patents #8,691 of 25,717Top 35%
RTRenesas Technology: 3 patents #990 of 3,337Top 30%
Toyota: 2 patents #11,016 of 26,838Top 45%
OUOsaka University: 2 patents #362 of 1,984Top 20%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 1 patents #13,249 of 21,551Top 65%
TCToyobo Co.: 1 patents #227 of 498Top 50%
CLCentral Glass Company, Limited: 1 patents #505 of 968Top 55%
ICIcon: 1 patents #2 of 9Top 25%
Fujitsu Limited: 1 patents #14,843 of 24,456Top 65%
Brother Kogyo: 1 patents #2,155 of 2,767Top 80%
Nissan Motor Co.: 1 patents #4,519 of 8,689Top 55%
Overall (All Time): #31,718 of 4,157,543Top 1%
67 Patents All Time
Hiroaki Nishimura has been granted 67 US patents while listed as an inventor at Asics. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 2025. Hiroaki Nishimura ranks #31,718 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.76%). Patent records list Hiroaki Nishimura in Kobe, NJ, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2024.peak 131981: 1 patents19811985: 1 patents1989: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931997: 2 patents2001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents20022004: 3 patents2005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 1 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 5 patents2023: 3 patents2024: 13 patents20242025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 67 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1087575 Shoe sole Takayuki Kogure, Kenta TATENO, Yoshikazu MITSUHATA 2025-08-12
12383026 Shoe sole and shoe Hiroki Nakamura, Keishi Kitamoto, Yuji Tamakoshi, Seiji Yano, Shingo Masumoto +4 more 2025-08-12
D1084628 Shoe sole Kenta TATENO, Takayuki Kogure 2025-07-22
D1084621 Shoe sole Takayuki Kogure, Kenta TATENO 2025-07-22
D1084630 Shoe sole Kenta TATENO, Takayuki Kogure 2025-07-22
12349767 Sole and shoe Kenta TATENO, Masanori SAKAGUCHI 2025-07-08
D1075252 Shoe sole Kenta TATENO, Fumitomo HISHIKAWA, Hiroyuki TAKANO, Hiromichi OTAKE 2025-05-20
12201181 Shoe sole and shoe Masanori SAKAGUCHI, Tomoki Ishizashi, Kenji Hirata, Seiji Yano, Seigo Nakaya 2025-01-21
D1054164 Shoe sole Fumitomo HISHIKAWA, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Yuya KOZUKA 2024-12-17
12150521 Upper and shoe Chihaya SUZUKI, Seiji Yano, Katsunori Yagyu, Yoshiyasu Ando, Keita OZAWA +3 more 2024-11-26
D1044235 Shoe Kenji Umehara, Yoshihiro Eguchi, Takayuki Kogure, Naoki Sakajo, Yoshikazu MITSUHATA +2 more 2024-10-01
12104047 Curable composition and cured product thereof Toru Arai, Shota YAMAMOTO, Azusa YAGI 2024-10-01
12091531 Copolymer and laminate containing same Toru Arai, Shota YAMAMOTO, Azusa YAGI 2024-09-17
12089690 Shoe sole and shoe having shoe sole Fumitomo HISHIKAWA, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Yuya KOZUKA 2024-09-17
12064004 Plate, shoe sole, and shoe Masanori SAKAGUCHI, Kenji Hirata, Genki HATANO, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Yuya KOZUKA +2 more 2024-08-20
12017768 Information processing apparatus and information processing method Michiro Hirai 2024-06-25 $773,000
D1026442 Shoe Kenta TATENO, Chihaya SUZUKI 2024-05-14
D1024529 Shoe Kenta TATENO, Chihaya SUZUKI 2024-04-30
D1020194 Shoe Takayuki Kogure, Kenji Hirata, Masanori SAKAGUCHI 2024-04-02
11933059 Fiber sheet for reinforcing concrete structures Tomohiro Yamashita 2024-03-19
D1014046 Shoe sole Takayuki Kogure, Kenji Hirata 2024-02-13
11825903 Shoe sole and shoe Masanori SAKAGUCHI, Seigo Nakaya, Kenta Moriyasu, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Yuya KOZUKA +3 more 2023-11-28
11819089 Fastening structure of upper of shoe and shoe Genki HATANO, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Kenta Moriyasu, Satoru Abe, Tomoki Ishizashi 2023-11-21
11574482 Bidirectional statistical consolidation of multi-modal grouped observations Nikolaos Georgis 2023-02-07 $940,000
11538284 Information processing apparatus and method, and program Nikolaos Georgis 2022-12-27 $645,000