Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ube, JP ranks #910 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,652 patents from 750 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ube, JP include Sumitomo Electric Industries, Konica, Toyota.

Showing 1–50 of 750 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Takeharu Yamamoto Sumitomo Electric Industries 73
2 Norio Miura Konica 62
3 Akira Hino Toyota 47
3 Masahiro Miura Pioneer 47
#5 Toshihiro Ishikawa Ube Industries 43
#6 Tomio Kimura Ube Industries 42
#7 Katsumasa Harada Ube Industries 40
#8 Koichi Tezuka Fujitsu Limited 38
#9 Kiyohito Okamura The Foundation: The Research Institute For Special Inorganic Materials 36
#9 Takashi Suenaga Casio Computer Co. 36
#11 Keigo Nishihira Ube Industries 35
#12 Akifumi Yao Central Glass Company, Limited 34
#13 Masafumi Hashimoto Toyoda Gosei Co. 33
#14 Akio Miyamoto Fujitsu Limited 32
#14 Makoto Kubo Kao 32
#16 Hiroshi Tanigawa Toko Co. 29
#16 Masayuki Fujimoto Taiyo Yuden Co. 29
#16 Shigeyoshi Nishino Ube Industries 29
#19 Katsutoshi Fujii Ube Industries 27
#19 Masahide Kondo Ube Industries 27
#21 Takemi Yamamura Ube Industries 26
#21 Shinsuke Nakagawa Central Glass Company, Limited 26
#23 Kikuo Ataka Ube Industries 24
#23 Ryoji Sugise Ems-Chemie Ag 24
#23 Hiroshi Yanagisawa IBM 24
#26 Kozo Fujii Ube Industries 23
#27 Teruhiko Inoue Ube Industries 22
#28 Toshiro Shimada Sumitomo Electric Industries 19
#28 Takashi Doi Ube Industries 19
#28 Masayoshi Yamashita Nec 19
#28 Shin-ichi Sakata Ube Industries 19
#28 Kazuyuki Tadatomo Mitsubishi Cable Industries 19
#33 Junichi Kugimoto Ube Industries 18
#34 Naomi Okamoto Ube Industries 17
#34 Shinji Ohara Kubota 17
#34 Hiroyuki Oomori Central Glass Company, Limited 17
#34 Tokio Obata Ube Industries 17
#34 Ryuichi Nakamura Yamaichi Electronics Co. 17
#39 Takaaki Kuwata Ube Industries 16
#39 Satoru Fujitsu Ube Industries 16
#39 Joji Kawai Ube Industries 16
#42 Masataka Fujinaga Ube Industries 15
#42 Ryoichi Nomura Nic Autotec 15
#42 Akio Matsushita Ube Industries 15
#42 Nobuharu Hisano Ube Industries 15
#42 Kouichi Fukuda Ube Material Industries 15
#42 Mitsuhiko Morita Toyota 15
#42 Hiroyuki Yamaoka Ube Industries 15
#49 Isamu Mori Central Glass Company, Limited 14
#49 Masayuki Tanaka Eisai 14