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— 53 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#12,186
of
105,732
Top 15%
76
inventors
53
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2018.
peak 6
1990: 1 patents
1990
1994: 1 patents
2000: 1 patents
2000
2003: 2 patents
2006: 2 patents
2006
2009: 1 patents
2011: 2 patents
2011
2012: 2 patents
2013: 4 patents
2013
2015: 2 patents
2016: 3 patents
2016
2017: 4 patents
2018: 6 patents
2018
2019: 2 patents
2020: 3 patents
2020
2021: 4 patents
2022: 1 patents
2022
2023: 5 patents
2024: 5 patents
2024
2025: 2 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Api
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
76
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hiroshi Kawabata
13
2
Masaki NAGAHAMA
12
2
Ryoma Miyake
12
#4
Tomoko Maeda
8
#5
Jun Takehara
7
#5
Masato MURAI
7
#7
Daiki Okado
6
#8
Naoyuki Watanabe
5
#8
Takashi Ohtani
5
#8
Tsugihiko Hidaka
5
#11
Hirotsugu TANIIKE
4
#11
Mamoru Suga
4
#11
Takanobu Iura
4
#11
Yasumasa Dekishima
4
#15
Hideki OOMIYA
3
#15
Hisatoshi Uehara
3
#15
Kuniko Asada
3
#15
Yasuhiro Kozasa
3
#15
Yasuyo Saito
3
#15
Yoshimune Aosaki
3
#21
Hiroyuki Akashi
2
#21
Jun Ogawa
2
#21
Makoto Hibi
2
#21
Masahiko Seki
2
#21
Ryouhei Katou
2
#21
Toshio Morishita
2
#21
Yasuhiro Hidaka
2
#21
Yoshihide Kimura
2
#21
Yoshifumi Shibuya
2
#21
Yuuki Asuma
2
#31
Tai Ngyuen
1
#31
Akihito Ogino
1
#31
Aya Kato
1
#31
Bernard Castagner
1
#31
Haruka SASANO
1
#31
Haipeng Zhao
1
#31
Hiroshi Kohama
1
#31
Jeff Kreitzman
1
#31
Justin Brown
1
#31
Junpei Natsui
1
#31
Katsuto Ohse
1
#31
Kaori Suzuki
1
#31
Kenji Oki
1
#31
Kenta Saito
1
#31
Koichi Ishida
1
#31
Kosuke ITO
1
#31
Kuniki Kino
1
#31
Kumiko Okamoto
1
#31
Mai Kaneko
1
#31
Manabu Katsurada
1
1
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