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Denso — 20,075 Patents

Rank (All Time): #50 of 105,732Top 1%
11,792 inventors
20,075 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1,057 patents in 2019.peak 1,0571997: 7 patents19971998: 132 patents1999: 317 patents2000: 393 patents20002001: 458 patents2002: 506 patents2003: 585 patents20032004: 690 patents2005: 644 patents2006: 771 patents20062007: 805 patents2008: 708 patents2009: 746 patents20092010: 860 patents2011: 698 patents2012: 769 patents20122013: 725 patents2014: 823 patents2015: 791 patents20152016: 771 patents2017: 938 patents2018: 1,007 patents20182019: 1,057 patents2020: 1,040 patents2021: 952 patents20212022: 915 patents2023: 651 patents2024: 767 patents20242025: 549 patents2025

Top Inventors at Denso All Time

Showing 1–50 of 11,792 inventors

RankNamePatents
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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