Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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Hiroshi Sato

Canon: 228 patents #3 of 19,416Top 1%
FUFujifilm: 87 patents #18 of 4,519Top 1%
Hitachi: 47 patents #333 of 28,497Top 2%
Sony: 27 patents #1,364 of 25,231Top 6%
Honda Motor Co.: 20 patents #634 of 21,052Top 4%
SCSumitomo Chemical: 18 patents #188 of 4,033Top 5%
Toyota: 18 patents #1,345 of 26,838Top 6%
RTRenesas Technology: 15 patents #114 of 3,337Top 4%
Mitsubishi Electric: 14 patents #1,823 of 25,717Top 8%
HEHitachi Vlsi Engineering: 13 patents #25 of 666Top 4%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 13 patents #2,297 of 21,451Top 15%
Fujitsu Limited: 12 patents #2,592 of 24,456Top 15%
TLTokyo Electron Limited: 11 patents #663 of 5,567Top 15%
SSSumitomo Wiring Systems: 11 patents #341 of 2,615Top 15%
RERenesas Electronics: 10 patents #332 of 4,529Top 8%
ECEliiy Power Co.: 10 patents #1 of 27Top 4%
Tdk: 9 patents #675 of 3,796Top 20%
HSHitachi Tohbu Semiconductor: 8 patents #12 of 223Top 6%
Casio Computer Co.: 8 patents #310 of 1,970Top 20%
NSNippon Steel: 7 patents #329 of 4,423Top 8%
DCDai-Ichi Electric Co.: 6 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
KSKawai Gakki Seisakusho: 6 patents #33 of 198Top 20%
MLMitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited: 6 patents #48 of 302Top 20%
NANamics: 6 patents #5 of 113Top 5%
MMMitsubishi Mining: 5 patents #132 of 2,247Top 6%
Pioneer: 5 patents #362 of 1,730Top 25%
LGLion Group: 5 patents #13 of 587Top 3%
HCHitachi Device Engineering Co.: 5 patents #95 of 514Top 20%
ACAlps Electric Co.: 5 patents #368 of 2,177Top 20%
NKNippon Kayaku: 4 patents #176 of 1,103Top 20%
PKPilot Man-Nen-Hitsu Kabushiki Kaisha: 4 patents #2 of 63Top 4%
UIUbe Industries: 4 patents #315 of 1,686Top 20%
HCHitachi Ulsi Systems Co.: 4 patents #214 of 867Top 25%
FKFuji Yakuhin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha: 4 patents #3 of 60Top 5%
HSHomma Science: 4 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
TPTohoku Pioneer: 4 patents #64 of 312Top 25%
SCSeikosha Co.: 4 patents #86 of 312Top 30%
KOKonica Minolta Opto: 4 patents #98 of 418Top 25%
KOKonica: 3 patents #771 of 1,958Top 40%
SCSanyo Electric Co.: 3 patents #1,910 of 6,347Top 35%
SESeiko Epson: 3 patents #3,864 of 7,774Top 50%
Pioneer Electronic: 3 patents #611 of 1,840Top 35%
TCTakeda Riken Co.: 3 patents #1 of 26Top 4%
HCHitachi Koki Co.: 3 patents #334 of 888Top 40%
MCMax Co.: 3 patents #118 of 321Top 40%
TCTohto Kasei Co.: 3 patents #1 of 30Top 4%
TKToyo Denso Kabushiki Kaisha: 3 patents #18 of 182Top 10%
YAYamasa: 3 patents #21 of 108Top 20%
GE: 3 patents #10,354 of 36,430Top 30%
Panasonic: 3 patents #7,617 of 21,108Top 40%
MPMitsubishi Tanabe Pharma: 3 patents #98 of 503Top 20%
MCMitsui Mining & Smelting Co.: 3 patents #195 of 838Top 25%
MCMochida Pharmaceutical Co.: 3 patents #67 of 309Top 25%
NCNagano Automation Co.: 3 patents #2 of 8Top 25%
ADAdvantest: 3 patents #330 of 1,193Top 30%
TCTs Tech Co.: 2 patents #244 of 561Top 45%
KCKaken Pharmaceutical Co.: 2 patents #94 of 335Top 30%
SISumitomo Heavy Industries: 2 patents #252 of 917Top 30%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
SCSagami Chemical Research Center: 2 patents #73 of 312Top 25%
ZKZeria Shinyaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha: 2 patents #2 of 19Top 15%
NCNippon Steel Chemical: 2 patents #49 of 184Top 30%
Nec: 2 patents #5,510 of 14,502Top 40%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 2 patents #9,741 of 21,551Top 50%
NONippon Oil: 2 patents #264 of 773Top 35%
Applied Materials: 2 patents #3,641 of 7,310Top 50%
SLSaturn Licensing: 2 patents #123 of 329Top 40%
CHChisso: 2 patents #331 of 833Top 40%
NCNew Shicoh Technology Co.: 2 patents #4 of 13Top 35%
NKNippon Kogaku K.K.: 2 patents #156 of 382Top 45%
Bridgestone: 2 patents #1,066 of 2,860Top 40%
KSKobe Steel: 2 patents #504 of 2,031Top 25%
FUFujikura: 2 patents #518 of 1,407Top 40%
Nintendo Co.: 2 patents #671 of 1,476Top 50%
HSHitachi Automotive Systems Steering: 2 patents #17 of 48Top 40%
Nissan Motor Co.: 2 patents #3,090 of 8,689Top 40%
NTNTT: 2 patents #2,095 of 4,871Top 45%
KCKureha Chemical Industry Co.: 2 patents #45 of 215Top 25%
TOTosoh: 2 patents #354 of 1,042Top 35%
DEDigital Equipment: 2 patents #602 of 2,100Top 30%
FIFujifilm Business Innovation: 1 patents #3,579 of 5,238Top 70%
ACAisin Takaoka Co.: 1 patents #59 of 172Top 35%
ACAjinomoto Co.: 1 patents #1,164 of 2,190Top 55%
ANAlaxala Networks: 1 patents #73 of 140Top 55%
ASAsahi-Dow: 1 patents #40 of 93Top 45%
DCDai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co.: 1 patents #153 of 288Top 55%
DIDai Nippon Insatsu: 1 patents #197 of 371Top 55%
DCDai Nippon Toryo Co.: 1 patents #73 of 196Top 40%
Denso: 1 patents #6,940 of 11,792Top 60%
Eastman Kodak: 1 patents #4,972 of 8,114Top 65%
EMElpida Memory: 1 patents #419 of 692Top 65%
FCFuji Electric Co.: 1 patents #1,354 of 2,643Top 55%
GLGlory: 1 patents #217 of 385Top 60%
GJGradco Japan: 1 patents #22 of 46Top 50%
HAHitachi Astemo: 1 patents #649 of 1,276Top 55%
HCHodogaya Chemical Co.: 1 patents #201 of 359Top 60%
HCHonda Engineering Co.: 1 patents #2 of 19Top 15%
HOHoya: 1 patents #757 of 1,290Top 60%
IWIgarashi Electric Works: 1 patents #8 of 13Top 65%
IHIhi: 1 patents #624 of 1,178Top 55%
IKIkari: 1 patents #2 of 23Top 9%
ILIsuzu Motors Limited: 1 patents #414 of 908Top 50%
JAJapan Science And Technology Agency: 1 patents #756 of 2,171Top 35%
JTJtekt: 1 patents #1,102 of 1,969Top 60%
KEKeihin: 1 patents #237 of 596Top 40%
KLKoei Chemical Company, Limited: 1 patents #27 of 81Top 35%
KCKoyo Seiko Co.: 1 patents #363 of 749Top 50%
KUKureha: 1 patents #186 of 354Top 55%
KKKureha Kagaku Kogyo: 1 patents #332 of 607Top 55%
KCKyowa Hakko Kirin Co.: 1 patents #258 of 446Top 60%
LCLotte Co.: 1 patents #38 of 133Top 30%
MCMayekawa Mfg. Co.: 1 patents #126 of 273Top 50%
MIMinistry Of International Trade & Industry: 1 patents #189 of 582Top 35%
MKMitsubishi Denki K.K.: 1 patents #164 of 577Top 30%
NENec Home Electronics: 1 patents #33 of 106Top 35%
NCNichiyu Giken Kogyo Co.: 1 patents #6 of 22Top 30%
NKNihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #7 of 13Top 55%
NCNikko Co.: 1 patents #23 of 55Top 45%
NCNippon Steel Chemical Co.: 1 patents #136 of 380Top 40%
NMNippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal: 1 patents #786 of 1,491Top 55%
NCNoritsu Koki Co.: 1 patents #139 of 289Top 50%
Nsk: 1 patents #937 of 1,559Top 65%
OCOki Electric Cable Co.: 1 patents #10 of 36Top 30%
OCOlympus Optical Co.: 1 patents #1,517 of 2,334Top 65%
OEOmron Tateisi Electronics: 1 patents #264 of 599Top 45%
OJOpnext Japan: 1 patents #100 of 185Top 55%
PEPentax: 1 patents #238 of 396Top 65%
PVPioneer Video: 1 patents #67 of 139Top 50%
RSRenesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor: 1 patents #25 of 82Top 35%
RYRyobi: 1 patents #160 of 309Top 55%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 1 patents #10,653 of 22,248Top 50%
SISumitomo Metal Industries: 1 patents #630 of 1,462Top 45%
SCSumitomo Metal Mining Co.: 1 patents #385 of 736Top 55%
TITaisei Chemical Industries: 1 patents #9 of 23Top 40%
TCTaisei Kako Co.: 1 patents #42 of 108Top 40%
TKTakeda Riken Kogyo Kabushikikaisha: 1 patents #24 of 49Top 50%
ATAgency Of Industrial Science And Technology: 1 patents #568 of 1,778Top 35%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
TCToho Catalyst Co.: 1 patents #4 of 11Top 40%
TETohoku Pioneer Electronic: 1 patents #21 of 73Top 30%
TKTokyo Densoku Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #2 of 3Top 70%
TCToppan Printing Co.: 1 patents #691 of 1,467Top 50%
TIToray Industries: 1 patents #2,000 of 3,690Top 55%
TCToyo Seikan Co.: 1 patents #498 of 888Top 60%
ULUlvac: 1 patents #339 of 680Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #108 of 4,157,543Top 1%
786 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 551–575 of 786 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5898208 Color filter and liquid crystal display Takeshi Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba 1999-04-27
5892256 Semiconductor memory and a method of manufacturing the same Takeshi Matsushita, Muneharu Shimanoe, Akira Nieda 1999-04-06
5866293 Heat-sensitive recording material Kimiatsu Nomura, Naoto Yanagihara, Tetsunori Matsushita, Shojiro Sano 1999-02-02
5848472 Rotatable circular saw with parallelism adjustment function Naoya Eto, Takuma Nonaka, Kenji Niwa 1998-12-15
5844233 Color image reading apparatus having dichroic mirror and blazed diffraction grating 1998-12-01
5838426 Exposure apparatus and method which changes wavelength of illumination light in accordance with pressure changes occurring around projection optical system Hirohiko Shinonaga 1998-11-17
D399800 Automobile tire Yasuo Himuro, Kenichi Kanazawa 1998-10-20
5805797 Controller having a fail safe function, automatic train controller and system using the same Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Makoto Nohmi, Korefumi Tashiro 1998-09-08
5802266 Logic circuit having error detection function, redundant resource management method, and fault tolerant system using it Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Shoji Suzuki, Yoshimichi Sato, Korefumi Tashiro, Keisuke Bekki +2 more 1998-09-01
5802419 Image forming apparatus and process cartridge for image forming apparatus Kazushige Sakurai, Kazumi Yamauchi 1998-09-01
5778421 Information processing system which can check disk-like storage medium having prescribed relation therewith and disk-like storage medium therefor Masakazu Nagano, Kunihiro Tanaka, Toshiro Hibino 1998-07-07
5764784 Electroacoustic transducer Akira Yoshino 1998-06-09
5765077 Charging member, charging device and process cartridge detachably mountable to image forming apparatus Kazushige Sakurai, Junichi Kato, Kouichi Suwa, Masaki Ojima, Satoru Inami +1 more 1998-06-09
5764842 Semiconductor guided-wave optical device and method of fabricating thereof Masahiro Aoki, Makoto Suzuki, Masaaki Komori 1998-06-09
5761124 Semiconductor nonvolatile memory device in which high capacitance bit lines are isolated from sense amplifier input/output nodes during amplifying operation of sense amplifier Takashi Yamazaki 1998-06-02
5751133 Charge/discharge control method, charge/discharge controller, and power generation system with charge/discharge controller Kimitoshi Fukae, Nobuyoshi Takehara 1998-05-12
5742311 Replaceable ink cartridge Noribumi Koitabashi, Masami Ikeda, Sadayuki Sugama, Naohito Asai, Hiromitsu Hirabayashi +10 more 1998-04-21
5737474 Semiconductor optical device Masahiro Aoki, Makoto Takahashi 1998-04-07
5726724 Method for manufacturing a color filter using an ink jet system to color portions which have areas from 1.2 to 1.5 times greater than the light transmittable portions Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba 1998-03-10
5716740 Method for manufacturing a color filter in which light irradiation alters the ink absorption of portions of a resin layer and in which coloring is done by ink jets Shoji Shiba, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Akio Kashiwazaki, Keiichi Murai +1 more 1998-02-10
5716739 Process for producing a color filter Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Shoji Shiba 1998-02-10
5714195 Color filter repair method and apparatus, color filter, liquid crystal display device, and apparatus having liquid crystal display device Shoji Shiba, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki 1998-02-03
5712064 Process for producing a color filter and a liquid crystal display device Takeshi Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba 1998-01-27
5699311 Semiconductor memory device Keiichi Yoshida, Tetsuya Tsujikawa 1997-12-16
5683850 Diazo heat-sensitive recording material comprising hydroxy coumarin as a coupler Tetunori Matushita, Sadao Ishige, Kimiatsu Nomura, Mitsuyuki Tsurumi 1997-11-04