{"@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [{"@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/"}, {"@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Canon", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/company/canon"}, {"@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Hitoshi Aoki", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/inventor/fl:hi_ln:aoki-67"}]}
Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
HA

Hitoshi Aoki — 80 Patents

Canon: 24 patents #2,555 of 19,416Top 15%
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha: 23 patents #666 of 10,731Top 7%
NINikon: 20 patents #190 of 2,493Top 8%
SCSumitomo Bakelite Co.: 2 patents #227 of 790Top 30%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
Honda Motor Co.: 2 patents #8,527 of 21,052Top 45%
SSSumitomo Wiring Systems: 1 patents #1,603 of 2,615Top 65%
WCWakamoto Pharmaceutical Co.: 1 patents #45 of 99Top 50%
YAYazaki: 1 patents #2,179 of 3,427Top 65%
NINichirei: 1 patents #6 of 36Top 20%
NTNTT: 1 patents #2,911 of 4,871Top 60%
SCSanyo Electric Co.: 1 patents #3,644 of 6,347Top 60%
SCStanley Electric Co.: 1 patents #550 of 1,072Top 55%
Yokohama, JP: #527 of 49,234 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #22,625 of 4,157,543Top 1%
80 Patents All Time
Hitoshi Aoki has been granted 80 US patents while listed as an inventor at Canon. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in November 2025. Hitoshi Aoki ranks #22,625 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.54%). Patent records list Hitoshi Aoki in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2019.peak 111986: 1 patents19861991: 2 patents1992: 2 patents1993: 2 patents19931994: 2 patents1995: 1 patents1996: 3 patents19961997: 4 patents1998: 4 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 2 patents2002: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 9 patents2019: 11 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 7 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 4 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 80 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12466687 Tape affixing system Kiyotaka Kizaki, Masaki Kanazawa 2025-11-11
12463068 Sheet release apparatus Kiyotaka Kizaki, Yuichiro Morita, Ryosuke Sumiya 2025-11-04
11758008 Communication apparatus, control method and program 2023-09-12
11749297 Audio quality estimation apparatus, audio quality estimation method and program Atsuko Kurashima, Ginga Kawaguchi 2023-09-05
11653820 In-body image capturing device and in-body monitoring camera system Toshihisa GOTOH, Kei URAKAWA, Kishoh TAKAMATSU, Tomohiro Konishi, Tsuguhisa INOUE 2023-05-23
11622023 Communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium 2023-04-04
11350818 In-vivo camera device and in-vivo monitoring camera system Tadahiko Sato, Narakazu Shimomura, Kei URAKAWA, Yan Qian 2022-06-07
11239395 Image display device MASUMI MAEGAWA, Toshiya Ishio, Katsuji Iguchi 2022-02-01
11134369 Communication apparatus having overlapping periods for communication with other communication apparatuses, method of controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium 2021-09-28 $74,000
11123557 Electric stimulator Kensuke Yamakawa, Norikazu Yoshioka 2021-09-21
11109426 Communication apparatus, communication method, and program 2021-08-31 $35,000
11082503 Communication apparatus, control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium 2021-08-03 $45,000
10917832 Communication device, communication method, and program 2021-02-09 $50,000
10898065 In-vivo monitoring camera system Toshihisa GOTOH, Kei URAKAWA, Kishoh TAKAMATSU, Tomohiro Konishi, Kazunori Morita +1 more 2021-01-26
10893795 Camera system for monitoring inside of body and auxiliary tool set Toshihisa GOTOH, Kei URAKAWA 2021-01-19
10848952 Communication apparatus, control method of the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium 2020-11-24 $27,000
10608365 Terminal protection parts Tadahiko Sato, Yan Qian 2020-03-31
10542879 In-body monitoring camera system and camera unit with gripping portion Kei URAKAWA 2020-01-28
10492669 Bending device, control device, and medical instrument Kazunori Morita, Toshihisa GOTOH, Kazuhiro Taniguchi, Masazumi OKAJIMA, Satoshi Iwaki 2019-12-03
10470027 Communication apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium 2019-11-05 $26,000
10441154 Camera system for monitoring inside of body and auxiliary device and method for installing imaging apparatus for monitoring inside of body Kishoh TAKAMATSU 2019-10-15
10362611 Communication device, control method, and storage medium 2019-07-23 $25,000
10348990 Light detecting device, solid-state image capturing apparatus, and method for manufacturing the same Toshihisa GOTOH, Toshio Yoshida, Yoshinobu Kanazawa, Yoshimitsu Nakashima, Kohji Kobayashi +4 more 2019-07-09
10326666 Communication apparatus, control method, and computer readable storage medium 2019-06-18 $27,000
10307040 In-body monitoring camera system and support tube for in-body monitoring-camera-system Toshihisa GOTOH, Tsuguhisa INOUE, Kei URAKAWA 2019-06-04