Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Osaka, JP ranks #216 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 13,252 patents from 258 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Osaka, JP include Sumitomo Electric Industries, Murata Manufacturing Co., Canon.

Showing 1–50 of 258 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hiroshi Ueda Sumitomo Electric Industries 445
2 Takeshi Nakamura Murata Manufacturing Co. 436
3 Kazuhiro Yamada Canon 354
#4 Kiyoshi Inoue Inoue-Japax Research Incorporated 351
#5 Takashi Kimura Canon 271
#6 Shinji Tanaka Renesas Electronics 240
#7 Kenichi Hayashi Canon 216
#8 Koji Yamaguchi Canon 202
#9 Akihiro Suzuki Honda Motor Co. 201
#10 Yoshihiro Sato Panasonic 196
#11 Toshihiro Mori Canon 189
#12 Hiroshi Amano Panasonic 157
#13 Tatsuya Kato Tdk 156
#14 Masanori Suzuki Ricoh Company 155
#15 Yoshitaka Nakamura Hitachi 150
#16 Akira Ishii 148
#17 Koji Murata Kyocera Document Solutions 142
#18 Shinichi Yamamoto Panasonic 139
#19 Atsushi Wada Sanyo Electric Co. 136
#20 Osamu Nakayama Sumitomo Electric Industries 133
#21 Kenichi Inoue Hitachi 126
#22 Kenji Kawano Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 122
#23 Eiji Sato Toyota 121
#24 Masahiro Ogawa Casio Computer Co. 118
#25 Hideaki Ueda Minolta Co. 117
#26 Tsutomu Kobayashi Tdk 111
#26 Yoshihiro Yamamoto Daikin Industries 111
#26 Kenji Takeuchi Brother Kogyo 111
#26 Yasuo Miyake Panasonic 111
#30 Takashi Kitamura Canon 110
#31 Toru Iwata Sumitomo Electric Industries 108
#31 Masahiro Kondo Daikin Industries 108
#31 Makoto Kawai Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. 108
#34 Yusuke Yamamoto Sumitomo Electric Industries 106
#35 Akira Ogawa Fujitsu Limited 105
#36 Yasuyuki Naito Murata Manufacturing Co. 103
#36 Shinichi Murata Mitsubishi Motors 103
#38 Toshihiro Matsumoto Panasonic 101
#39 Shinichi Inoue Nitto Denko 99
#40 Makoto Nishimura Toray Industries 98
#41 Hiroshi Asano Permelec Electrode 93
#41 Satoshi Yamasaki Mitsui Chemicals 93
#43 Hiroshi Uemura Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 90
#44 Makoto Usui Sumitomo Electric Industries 89
#45 Shoichi Nakamura Acp Japan Co. 88
#46 Yasushi Yamada Konica 87
#46 Mamoru Takahashi Mitsui Chemicals 87
#48 Toshikazu Suzuki Toyota 86
#48 Jun Okada The University Of Tokyo 86
#50 Nobuyuki Mori Tdk 82