Showing 1–19 of 19 inventors
| Rank | Inventor | Primary Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenji Morita | Canon | 146 |
| 2 | Makoto Ono | — | 135 |
| 3 | Yasutaka Hirasawa | Sony | 51 |
| #4 | Masahiko Nagai | Brother Kogyo | 48 |
| #5 | Koji Sode | Ultizyme International | 47 |
| #6 | Feng Ma | Edda Technology | 41 |
| #6 | Makoto Uehara | Nippon Kogaku K.K. | 41 |
| #8 | Michihisa Miyahara | Kureha | 26 |
| #9 | Tatsuo Kawanaka | Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. | 14 |
| #10 | Norihiro Fukuri | Kao | 13 |
| #11 | Peter Berger | Knorr-Bremse Systeme Für Schienenfahrzeuge Gmbh | 11 |
| #11 | Yoshio Nishida | Agency For Science, Technology And Research | 11 |
| #13 | Junko Shimazaki | Arkray | 9 |
| #14 | Hideji Itokawa | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | 7 |
| #15 | Shigefumi Okada | Disco | 5 |
| #15 | Wayne Lewis | Rf Micro Devices | 5 |
| #15 | Yoshiyuki Kisaka | — | 5 |
| #18 | Naomi Ishikawa | Tyco Electronics Co. | 3 |
| #19 | Yoshiyasu Kobayashi | Subaru | 2 |
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