Sagamihara, JP ranks #2,387 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,311 patents from 27 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sagamihara, JP include Hitachi, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Olympus.
Showing 1–27 of 27 inventors
| Rank | Inventor | Primary Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masayuki Yamamoto | Hitachi | 300 |
| 2 | Masayuki Tanaka | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | 250 |
| 3 | Masashi Yamada | Olympus | 106 |
| #4 | Noboru Ishida | Ngk Spark Plug Co. | 90 |
| #5 | Tatsuo Tanaka | Konica Minolta | 74 |
| #6 | Toshinori Watanabe | Alps Electric Co. | 70 |
| #7 | Masanori Hayashi | Honda Motor Co. | 65 |
| #8 | Yoshitaka Kubota | Renesas Electronics | 54 |
| #9 | Tetsuo Okamoto | Yamaha | 48 |
| #10 | Takehiko Hayashi | Fujitsu Limited | 38 |
| #10 | Motohiko Sato | Ngk Spark Plug Co. | 38 |
| #12 | Yutaka Kimura | Nissan Chemical Industries | 29 |
| #13 | Kazuya Takeda | Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co. | 21 |
| #14 | Sumio Ogawa | Elpida Memory | 19 |
| #15 | Shigeharu Ootsuka | Mitsubishi Electric | 18 |
| #16 | Masato Hidaka | Smk | 16 |
| #17 | Masaki Tanabe | Canon | 13 |
| #17 | Yuji Oishi | Nissan Motor Co. | 13 |
| #17 | Masanao Abe | Pentax | 13 |
| #20 | Shoichi Okazaki | Mitsubishi | 7 |
| #20 | Toshio Okumura | Ngk Spark Plug Co. | 7 |
| #22 | Kazuhiro Tsuboi | Toyota | 6 |
| #23 | Hironobu Kawai | Hochiki | 5 |
| #24 | Koji Naruse | Yazaki | 4 |
| #25 | Tomio Adachi | Teijin Limited | 3 |
| #26 | Tooru Yokota | Jatco | 2 |
| #26 | Tatsuya Yamazawa | Tokico | 2 |