Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Yokohama, JP ranks #1,783 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,859 patents from 36 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Yokohama, JP include Canon, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric.

Showing 1–36 of 36 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hiroshi Kikuchi Canon 274
2 Hitoshi Nakamura Canon 224
3 Takao Suzuki Sony 185
#4 Masatoshi Kimura Mitsubishi Electric 152
#5 Hideo Aoki Hitachi 114
#6 Xu Yang Sas Institute 83
#7 Hiroshi Kamada Fujitsu Limited 70
#8 Tsuneo Terasawa Hitachi 69
#9 Toshiro Takahashi Hitachi 68
#10 Yoshihiko Okamoto Hitachi 60
#11 Ken Ozawa Sony 55
#12 Hiroshi Nakazato Seiko Epson 53
#13 Yoshiaki Nagao Sumitomo Electric Industries 52
#14 Nobuyuki Arai Ricoh Company 48
#15 Nobuo Yoshida Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 47
#16 Yutaka Nakajima Autoliv Development Ab 44
#17 Kazushige Ito Tdk 33
#18 Toshiharu Kawai Canon 32
#18 Takashi Nezu Tokico 32
#20 Koichi Tsunoda Ricoh Company 30
#21 Kiyoshi Kawasaki Tachi-S Co. 20
#21 Hideyuki Miyazawa Ricoh Company 20
#23 Kazuyoshi Shimizu Fujitsu Limited 18
#24 Hisao Asakura Hitachi 14
#24 Masamichi Watanabe Fujitsu Limited 14
#26 Jun Ueki Japan Tobacco 12
#27 Yoshihiro Watanabe Corixa 11
#28 Yuka MINAMIZONO Ricoh Company 4
#28 Dongchun Qiao Washington State University 4
#30 Taishi Wada University Of Washington 3
#30 Rajeev Goel Microsoft 3
#30 Tudor Buzasu Klein Microsoft 3
#33 Yoshihisa Ohno Asaca 2
#33 Oleg Perevalov Amazon 2
#33 Arthur Myer Amazon 2
#33 Yasuo Negishi Libbey-Owens-Ford 2

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