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Seiko Epson — 33,506 Patents

Rank (All Time): #25 of 105,732Top 1%
7,774 inventors
33,506 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1,679 patents in 2014.peak 1,6791996: 204 patents19961997: 247 patents1998: 337 patents1999: 327 patents19992000: 428 patents2001: 534 patents2002: 663 patents20022003: 809 patents2004: 876 patents2005: 899 patents20052006: 1,261 patents2007: 1,240 patents2008: 1,281 patents20082009: 1,382 patents2010: 1,484 patents2011: 1,565 patents20112012: 1,514 patents2013: 1,539 patents2014: 1,679 patents20142015: 1,634 patents2016: 1,667 patents2017: 1,428 patents20172018: 1,314 patents2019: 1,363 patents2020: 1,337 patents20202021: 1,238 patents2022: 1,252 patents2023: 1,147 patents20232024: 1,028 patents2025: 773 patents2025

Top Inventors at Seiko Epson All Time

Showing 1–50 of 7,774 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Satoshi Shinada 201
1 Takashi Takeda 201
3 Taku Ishizawa 195
#4 Nobuaki Hashimoto 194
#5 Ken Ikuma 173
#6 Hitotoshi Kimura 170
#7 Atsushi Kobayashi 166
#8 Yujiro Nomura 158
#9 Tatsuya Shimoda 150
#10 Kesatoshi Takeuchi 144
#10 Tadahiro Mizutani 144
#12 Koichi Akiyama 139
#13 Motoki Takabe 136
#14 Toshio Kumagai 128
#15 Eiju Hirai 125
#16 Hisashi Miyazawa 123
#17 Toshiaki Kakutani 121
#18 Minoru Usui 120
#19 Masayuki Takagi 118
#20 Munehide Kanaya 117
#21 Ryuichi Shiohara 113
#21 Takeshi Koshihara 113
#23 Akira Morita 111
#24 Tsuyoshi Sano 107
#25 Akira Komatsu 106
#26 Fujio Akahane 105
#26 Toshiaki Miyao 105
#28 Kenji Watanabe 104
#29 Masatoshi Yonekubo 102
#30 Hidetoshi Kodama 99
#30 Izumi Nozawa 99
#30 Teruhiko Fujisawa 99
#33 Keitaro Nakano 97
#34 Hiromu Miyazawa 94
#34 Jing Xiao 94
#34 Ryoichi Nozawa 94
#37 Mitsutoshi Miyasaka 93
#37 Shoma Kudo 93
#39 Naomi Kimura 92
#39 Shunichi Seki 92
#41 Hitoshi Ota 91
#41 Koichi Otsuki 91
#43 Kunio Tabata 90
#44 Yasushi Mizoguchi 88
#45 Tsuneyuki Sasaki 87
#46 Hidekazu Kobayashi 86
#46 Toru Matsuyama 86
#48 Kiyohiko Takemoto 85
#48 Takeo Seino 85
#48 Toshiaki Hashizume 85

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