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Iwatani — 36 Patents

Rank (All Time): #17,572 of 105,917Top 20%
73 inventors
36 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2015.peak 81986: 1 patents19861988: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19912011: 3 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 8 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Top Inventors at Iwatani All Time

Showing 1–50 of 73 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Koichi Izumi 12
2 Kunihiko Koike 11
3 Naohisa Makihira 7
3 Takehiko Senoo 7
#5 Sadaki Nakamura 6
#5 Yu Yoshino 6
#7 Goichi Inoue 5
#8 Kazuya Dobashi 4
#8 Kenichiro Inada 4
#8 Tadashi Shojo 4
#11 Masahiro Furutani 3
#11 Toshiki Manabe 3
#13 Hidefumi Matsui 2
#13 Kazuto Matsumoto 2
#13 Keita Kanehira 2
#13 Masami Nakagawa 2
#13 Masaki Narushima 2
#13 Takafumi OGIWARA 2
#13 Takehiko Orii 2
#13 Takeshi Sakamoto 2
#13 Toshihiro Aida 2
#13 Yukimasa Saito 2
#23 Abe Osamu 1
#23 Akira Shimizu 1
#23 Akitaka Shimizu 1
#23 Akio Wada 1
#23 Chisato Fujishima 1
#23 Eiichi Kamei 1
#23 Hiroshi Ichimaru 1
#23 Hiroaki Kotani 1
#23 Hiroaki Nemoto 1
#23 Hiderou Nomoto 1
#23 Hideyo Omori 1
#23 Jiro Matsuo 1
#23 Kazuo Yabe 1
#23 Katsuhiro Yamada 1
#23 Kensuke Inai 1
#23 Ken Nishida 1
#23 Kenta Yasuda 1
#23 Koichi Tsuda 1
#23 Masaru Ito 1
#23 Masutoshi Kotani 1
#23 Masahiko Nakamuta 1
#23 Manabu Saeda 1
#23 Masanobu Shinkai 1
#23 Masahiro Tainaka 1
#23 Norikazu Hohshi 1
#23 Satohiko Hoshino 1
#23 Satoshi Ninomiya 1
#23 Shuhei AZUMA 1

Most Valuable Patents

PatentEst. ValueYear
Suction device and suction method$540K2017

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