Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Chigasaki, JP ranks #490 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,689 patents from 1,171 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chigasaki, JP include Canon, Hitachi, Tdk.

Showing 1–50 of 1,171 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Toshio Kashino Canon 173
2 Kunihiro Katayama Hitachi 110
3 Kenichi Kawabata Tdk 101
#4 Junji Shiokawa Hitachi 79
#5 Masafumi Mochizuki HGST 76
#6 Kazuhiro Ogura Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 69
#7 Hiroyuki Kono Mitsubishi Electric 58
#8 Toshihiko Sugano Mitsubishi Chemical 57
#9 Nobuyuki Yanagawa Ricoh Company 56
#9 Hidekatsu Kohara Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. 56
#11 Naotoshi Matsuda Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 54
#11 Jiro Shirakata Canon 54
#13 Keisuke Goto Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. 53
#14 Toru Kambayashi Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 50
#15 Toshiya Uozumi Toho Titanium Co. 47
#16 Yoshikazu Iida Nikon 44
#16 Akihiro Asada Hitachi 44
#16 Sasuke Endo Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 44
#19 Kyuzo Nakamura Ulvac 43
#19 Minoru Tamura Nissan Motor Co. 43
#19 Osamu Okamoto Toto 43
#22 Masami Masuda Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 42
#22 Kaoru Seto Canon 42
#22 Fumie Sato Nissan Chemical Industries 42
#25 Fumio Mikami Canon 41
#25 Akira Hirota Victor Company Of Japan 41
#27 Masafumi Imai Toa Nenryo Kogyo 40
#28 Kenichiro Ohtsuka Sumitomo Electric Industries 37
#29 Haruhiko Yamamoto Fujitsu Limited 36
#29 Yasumasa Ooya Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 36
#31 Shuhei Kato Ssd 35
#31 Nobuo Shimma Chugai Pharmaceutical 35
#33 Akihiro Matsuzaki Kubota 34
#33 Satoru Asai Fujitsu Limited 34
#35 Katsuhisa Tsuchiya Toto 32
#35 Yoshimichi Katagiri Fujitsu Limited 32
#37 Hideharu Koike Toshiba 31
#37 Seiichi Katoh Ricoh Company 31
#37 Toshiya Abe Ichikoh Industries 31
#37 Tomoyuki Ishikura Sanraku-Ocean Co. 31
#41 Yuji Itoh Canon 30
#41 Yoshikyo Tamekuni Sumitomo Electric Industries 30
#43 Motoki Hosaka Toho Titanium Co. 29
#43 Toshiharu Ooe Toto 29
#45 Masahiko Osaka Panasonic 27
#45 Kazuaki Hori Renesas Technology 27
#45 Mitsuhiro Tokuhara Canon 27
#48 Kentaro Murakami Seiko Epson 26
#48 Yukari Katayama Hitachi 26
#50 Kazuya Takada Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 25