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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Iwate, JP ranks #1,967 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,648 patents from 263 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Iwate, JP include Tokyo Electron Limited, Honda Motor Co., Hitachi.

Showing 1–50 of 263 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hiroyuki Matsuura Tokyo Electron Limited 90
2 Hiroyuki Kikuchi Honda Motor Co. 88
3 Hisashi Takahashi Hitachi 86
#4 Yasushi Takeuchi Canon 85
#5 Masakazu Yamamoto Ebara 82
#6 Katsuyuki Takahashi Canon 58
#7 Yoshiharu Abe Sumitomo Electric Industries 46
#8 Takumi Nonaka Zama Japan Kabushiki Kaisha 40
#9 Masato Yonezawa Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 38
#10 Tadashi Enomoto Sumitomo Electric Industries 35
#11 Takeshi Kumagai Tokyo Electron Limited 31
#12 Naoki Honma Panasonic 29
#13 Kohei Fukushima Tokyo Electron Limited 23
#14 Katsuyuki Hishiya Tokyo Electron Limited 21
#15 Mitsuru Yamazaki Nippon Bearing Co. 19
#15 Akira Okuda Sumitomo Electric Industries 19
#17 Ken-ichi Tomita Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 18
#18 Nobuyuki Shiraki Panasonic 17
#18 Mamoru Baba Calsonic Kansei 17
#18 Makoto Tomoyori Alps Electric Co. 17
#21 Kazumi Kubo Tokyo Electron Limited 16
#21 Kiichi Takahashi Tokyo Electron Limited 16
#21 Katsuhiko Oyama Tokyo Electron Limited 16
#24 Ikuo Hibino Alps Electric Co. 15
#24 Yu Wamura Tokyo Electron Limited 15
#26 Hiroshi Kawauchi Sumitomo Electric Industries 14
#26 Norihiko Sasaki Ricoh Company 14
#28 Yasuaki Kikuchi Tokyo Electron Limited 13
#28 Hideomi HANE Tokyo Electron Limited 13
#30 Takahiro Chiba Onkyo 12
#30 Satoshi Shimura Hitachi 12
#32 Dai Sasakawa Panasonic 11
#32 Reiji Kikuchi Mazda Motor 11
#34 Takahito Umehara Tokyo Electron Limited 10
#34 Hideki Yorozu Alps Electric Co. 10
#34 Takashi Asakawa Tokyo Electron Limited 10
#34 Junnosuke TAGUCHI Tokyo Electron Limited 10
#34 Harunari Hasegawa Tokyo Electron Limited 10
#34 Masahiko Kaminishi Tokyo Electron Limited 10
#34 Yoshitake Ota Ohtake Root Kogyo Co. 10
#41 Susumu Matsuzawa Sumitomo Wiring Systems 9
#41 Norio Baba Toudai Tlo 9
#41 Masato Koakutsu Tokyo Electron Limited 9
#41 Hiromi Nitadori Tokyo Electron Limited 9
#41 Mineyuki Tamura Zama Japan Kabushiki Kaisha 9
#41 Toshiki Ogasawara Mikuni 9
#47 Chyon Hae Kim Honda Motor Co. 8
#47 Kazuteru Obara Tokyo Electron Limited 8
#47 Takahito Kasai Tokyo Electron Limited 8
#47 Norio Takehana Mikuni 8