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Green Cross — 247 Patents

Rank (All Time): #3,169 of 105,917Top 3%
527 inventors
247 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 20 patents in 1997.peak 201985: 9 patents19851986: 16 patents1987: 9 patents1988: 9 patents19881989: 13 patents1990: 8 patents1991: 9 patents19911992: 13 patents1993: 4 patents1994: 8 patents19941995: 10 patents1996: 9 patents1997: 20 patents19971998: 11 patents1999: 11 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 7 patents2015: 5 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 3 patents2019: 8 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 4 patents2022: 6 patents20222023: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Top Inventors at Green Cross All Time

Showing 1–50 of 527 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Kazumasa Yokoyama 69
2 Tadakazu Suyama 46
3 Chikara Fukaya 34
#4 Taizo Ono 24
#5 Takao Ohmura 21
#6 Satoshi Funakoshi 20
#6 Yoshio Arakawa 20
#8 Yahiro Uemura 19
#9 Yoshihisa Inoue 18
#10 Yoshio Tsuda 17
#11 Youichiro Naito 15
#12 Hee Jeong Seo 14
#12 Masahiro Watanabe 14
#14 Kwang-Seop Song 13
#14 Min Ju Kim 13
#14 Suk Ho Lee 13
#17 Eun-Jung Park 12
#17 Hirofumi Arimura 12
#19 Soongyu Choi 11
#20 Akinori Sumi 10
#20 Jinhwa Lee 10
#20 Myung Eun Jung 10
#20 Norifumi Nakamura 10
#20 Wataru Ohtani 10
#20 Younggyu Kong 10
#26 Haruhide Kawabe 9
#26 Kazuo Takechi 9
#26 Masayuki Nishida 9
#26 Mi-Soon Kim 9
#26 Yasuo Ueda 9
#26 Yoshiro Iga 9
#26 Yoshio Kagitani 9
#33 Kaoru Kobayashi 8
#33 Yong-Won Shin 8
#35 Jeongmin Kim 7
#35 Kouichi Yamanouchi 7
#35 Masakazu Iwai 7
#35 Nobuo Kondo 7
#35 So Ok Park 7
#35 Tsunetaka Nakajima 7
#35 Yasushi Sekiyama 7
#35 Yutaka Hirao 7
#35 Yuichi Mizukami 7
#44 Atsuyuki Ashimori 6
#44 Hajime Ebisu 6
#44 Hiroyuki Okamoto 6
#44 Hideo Sugi 6
#44 Katuhiro Uriyu 6
#44 Kenji Tanaka 6
#44 Ki Hwan Chang 6

Most Valuable Patents

PatentEst. ValueYear
Method for increasing placental blood flow$749K1999

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