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Nec
— 35,886 Patents
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(All Time):
#23
of
106,120
Top 1%
14,556
inventors
35,886
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Nec
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
14,556
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hisashi Futaki
288
2
Toshiyuki Tamura
192
3
Gang Wang
169
#4
Kojiro Hamabe
167
#5
Ryoma Oami
163
#6
Sadafuku Hayashi
150
#7
Hiroaki Aminaka
138
#8
Ting Wang
135
#9
Keiichi Chono
127
#10
Haifeng Chen
126
#11
Yassin Aden AWAD
112
#12
Yoshikazu Kakura
111
#13
Kazunori Ozawa
108
#14
Tadahiko Sugibayashi
100
#15
Hiroo Ikeda
99
#15
Jinsock Lee
99
#17
Manmohan Chandraker
98
#18
Ghassan Karame
96
#19
Yukai GAO
90
#20
Akihiko Sugiyama
89
#21
Takashi Shibata
88
#22
Masato Tsukada
87
#23
Anand Raghawa Prasad
86
#23
Fujio Okumura
86
#23
Takanori Iwai
86
#26
Katsuji Kimura
85
#26
Sampath Rangarajan
85
#28
Nobuyuki Ishiwata
83
#29
Robert Arnott
82
#30
Mohammad Khojastepour
78
#31
Rui Ishiyama
75
#31
Yuzo Senda
75
#33
Kota Iwamoto
73
#33
Yasutaka Nakashiba
73
#35
Masayuki Mizuno
72
#36
Iskren Ianev
71
#37
Shousei Yoshida
70
#38
Akio Tajima
69
#39
Guofei Jiang
66
#40
Hiroyoshi Miyano
65
#40
Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia
65
#42
Kazushi Muraoka
63
#43
Masaki Ichihara
62
#43
Shoji Yachida
62
#45
Katsumi Kikuchi
61
#45
Katsumi Maeda
61
#45
Philip Nan Ji
61
#48
Masao Imai
59
#49
Yuka Ogino
58
#50
Koji Kudo
57
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