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Toyota — 44,345 Patents

Rank (All Time): #15 of 105,732Top 1%
26,838 inventors
44,345 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2,920 patents in 2022.peak 2,9201996: 195 patents19961997: 243 patents1998: 431 patents1999: 463 patents19992000: 391 patents2001: 376 patents2002: 368 patents20022003: 399 patents2004: 392 patents2005: 377 patents20052006: 644 patents2007: 540 patents2008: 679 patents20082009: 711 patents2010: 1,042 patents2011: 1,252 patents20112012: 1,673 patents2013: 1,657 patents2014: 1,921 patents20142015: 1,879 patents2016: 1,811 patents2017: 2,363 patents20172018: 2,442 patents2019: 2,602 patents2020: 2,678 patents20202021: 2,661 patents2022: 2,920 patents2023: 2,636 patents20232024: 2,386 patents2025: 2,031 patents2025

Top Inventors at Toyota All Time

Showing 1–50 of 26,838 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Atsushi Tabata 423
2 Shinji Ichikawa 230
3 Tooru Matsubara 202
#4 Michael Paul Rowe 173
#5 Shailesh N. Joshi 170
#6 Debasish Banerjee 151
#7 Danil V. Prokhorov 150
#8 Hiroshi Isono 145
#9 Osamu Fukawatase 142
#9 Yutaka Taga 142
#11 Adrien David Gaidon 131
#12 Tatsuya Imamura 130
#13 Koichi Okuda 128
#14 Umesh N. Gandhi 121
#15 Shinya Hirota 120
#16 Shin Sakurada 115
#17 Masato Endo 114
#18 Keiichiro Aoki 113
#19 Kentaro Oguchi 112
#19 Mamoru Yoshioka 112
#19 Toru Kidokoro 112
#22 Mitsuyoshi Ohno 109
#22 Minjuan Zhang 109
#24 Masahiko Ishii 107
#25 Toshio Tanahashi 105
#25 Vitor Guizilini 105
#27 Feng Zhou 102
#27 Hiromitsu Urano 102
#29 Kenta Kumazaki 101
#29 Yuji Iwase 101
#31 Scott L. Frederick 100
#32 Toshiki Kindo 97
#33 Kohei Yoshida 93
#33 Kunihiro Iwatsuki 93
#35 Akihiro Katayama 90
#35 Kenji Kimura 90
#37 Rares A. Ambrus 89
#38 Hideo Hasegawa 88
#38 Hiroyuki Shibata 88
#38 Hongfei Jia 88
#38 Paxton S. Williams 88
#38 Toshiaki Tanaka 88
#43 Songtao Wu 87
#44 Hiromichi Kimura 86
#44 Masaki Okamura 86
#44 Naoki Yamamuro 86
#47 Mitsuhiro Nada 85
#47 Shinichi Takeshima 85
#49 Masanao Idogawa 84
#49 Yukihiko Ideshio 84

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