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Denso
Denso
— 20,075 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#50
of
105,732
Top 1%
11,792
inventors
20,075
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 1,057 patents in 2019.
peak 1,057
1997: 7 patents
1997
1998: 132 patents
1999: 317 patents
2000: 393 patents
2000
2001: 458 patents
2002: 506 patents
2003: 585 patents
2003
2004: 690 patents
2005: 644 patents
2006: 771 patents
2006
2007: 805 patents
2008: 708 patents
2009: 746 patents
2009
2010: 860 patents
2011: 698 patents
2012: 769 patents
2012
2013: 725 patents
2014: 823 patents
2015: 791 patents
2015
2016: 771 patents
2017: 938 patents
2018: 1,007 patents
2018
2019: 1,057 patents
2020: 1,040 patents
2021: 952 patents
2021
2022: 915 patents
2023: 651 patents
2024: 767 patents
2024
2025: 549 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Denso
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
11,792
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Makoto Taniguchi
117
2
Shin Kusase
111
3
Tsutomu Shiga
98
#4
Yuki Takahashi
95
#5
Takashi Suzuki
94
#6
Masami Niimi
81
#6
Tetsuo Fujii
81
#8
Shigeru Kamio
80
#9
Inao Toyoda
73
#10
Yoshiaki Takano
71
#11
Atsushi Umeda
70
#12
Haruyuki Nishijima
66
#13
Tsuneo Maebara
65
#14
Mamoru Sawada
64
#14
Shigenobu Nakamura
64
#16
Mitsuyasu Matsuura
63
#16
Minekazu Sakai
63
#16
Nobuya Watabe
63
#19
Hirotsugu Takeuchi
62
#20
Hideki Kabune
61
#20
Masashi Mori
61
#20
Takatoshi Sekizawa
61
#20
Yuzo Harata
61
#24
Jun Yamada
59
#24
Yoshiyuki Kono
59
#26
Kazuyoshi Obayashi
57
#26
Takamoto Watanabe
57
#26
Yuichi Takeuchi
57
#29
Tomohisa Kishigami
56
#30
Akimitsu Sugiura
55
#30
Yoshimitsu Inoue
55
#32
Masashi Yamasaki
53
#33
Masamichi Shibata
52
#33
Naoki Kawasaki
52
#35
Hideaki Ishihara
51
#35
Noriaki Ikemoto
51
#35
Yasutoshi Suzuki
51
#35
Yoshiki Katoh
51
#39
Keiichi Uno
50
#39
Tadatoshi Asada
50
#41
Etsuhisa Yamada
49
#42
Ichiro Yoshida
48
#42
Koji Ishizuka
48
#42
Mitsuhiro Murata
48
#42
Toshihisa Taniguchi
48
#42
Yasushi Yamanaka
48
#42
Yukihiko Watanabe
48
#48
Atusi Sakaida
47
#48
Eiichi Okuno
47
#48
Makiko Sugiura
47
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