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Sony
Rank (All Time):
#4
of 106,127
Top 1%
25,231 inventors
73,210
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Sony
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Tetsujiro Kondo
723
2
Yoichiro Sako
555
3
Brant Candelore
435
#4
Katsuhide Uchino
429
#5
Hideji WAKABAYASHI
380
#6
Yuxin WEI
319
#7
Hiroaki Takano
309
#8
Martin Warwick Beale
299
#9
Brian Alexander Martin
293
#10
Kazuyuki Sakoda
283
#11
Shin Horng Wong
275
#12
Yuichi Morioka
273
#13
Shinichiro Tsuda
266
#14
Yoichi Yagasaki
252
#15
Keiji Mabuchi
246
#16
Peter Shintani
237
#17
Rickard Ljung
231
#18
Teiyu Goto
230
#19
Shigeru Sugaya
228
#20
Ikuo Tsukagoshi
227
#21
Junichi Yamashita
225
#22
Kazushi Sato
222
#23
Motoki Kato
216
#24
Ryo Sawai
214
#25
True Xiong
212
#26
Gary M. Zalewski
202
#27
Ali Tabatabai
202
#28
Seiji Kobayashi
197
#29
Ryuichi Iwamura
196
#30
Chen Sun
195
#31
Leo Pedlow
193
#32
Akio Ohba
192
#33
Xin Guo
191
#34
Ryota Kimura
187
#35
Charles McCoy
185
#36
Teruhiko Suzuki
185
#37
Anders BERGGREN
181
#38
Hisato Shima
174
#39
Tetsuro Yamamoto
174
#40
Masanori Hosomi
173
#41
Tomoya Yamaura
172
#42
Hiroyuki Ohmori
170
#43
Yutaka Higo
167
#44
Junichi Rekimoto
166
#45
Ikuo Yamano
164
#46
Kohei Asada
158
#47
Yasushi Fujinami
158
#48
Erik Bengtsson
157
#49
Kazuhiro Bessho
152
#50
Takatoshi Nakamura
151
#51
Ohji Nakagami
143
#52
Kazutaka Yamane
142
#53
Robert Hardacker
142
#54
Kazuyuki Yamamoto
140
#55
Robert Allan Unger
137
#56
Ling Jun Wong
136
#57
Hiromasa Uchiyama
134
#58
Mitsuhiro Suzuki
134
#59
Scott Smyers
134
#60
Toru Chinen
134
#61
Ola Thörn
132
#62
Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
132
#63
Jeffrey Roger Stafford
131
#64
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
131
#65
Yasuhiro Fujimori
131
#66
Hiroyuki Uchida
129
#67
Yoshihito Ishibashi
129
#68
Steven Osman
128
#69
Masamichi Asukai
126
#70
Basuki PRIYANTO
125
#71
Toshiya Hamada
125
#72
Masayuki Nishiguchi
124
#73
Makoto Sato
124
#74
Mitsuru Takehara
124
#75
Ming-Chang Liu
123
#76
Tatsushi Nashida
123
#77
Hiroyuki Segawa
120
#78
David Perry
119
#79
Akira Tange
117
#80
Naohisa Kitazato
116
#81
Tetsuji Yamaguchi
115
#82
Tomoyuki Asano
115
#83
Akio Yasuda
115
#84
Behram DaCosta
114
#85
Kazuyuki Shimezawa
114
#86
Mark Evan Cerny
114
#87
Richard Marks
114
#88
Shunichi Kasahara
114
#89
Zhinong Ying
114
#90
Mark Eyer
113
#91
Katsuhisa Aratani
112
#92
Yasushi Miyajima
111
#93
Yasuhisa Nakajima
111
#94
Bruce Fairman
110
#95
Djung Nguyen
110
#96
James H. Wilkinson
110
#97
James J. Carrig
109
#98
Eric Edwards
108
#99
Satoshi Suzuki
108
#100
Seiji Wada
107