Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
HI

Hiroaki Inoue

EBEbara: 32 patents #48 of 1,611Top 3%
NENec: 25 patents #354 of 14,502Top 3%
HIHitachi: 19 patents #1,906 of 28,497Top 7%
KOKomatsu: 16 patents #46 of 2,087Top 3%
KTKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 12 patents #2,533 of 21,451Top 15%
Fujitsu Limited: 9 patents #3,538 of 24,456Top 15%
TKToyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha: 5 patents #122 of 1,085Top 15%
Dai Nippon Printing Co.: 4 patents #587 of 2,222Top 30%
KAKaneka: 4 patents #309 of 1,525Top 25%
Ricoh Company: 3 patents #4,826 of 9,818Top 50%
TDToshiba Storage Device: 3 patents #7 of 150Top 5%
OJOclaro Japan: 3 patents #23 of 108Top 25%
Mazda Motor: 3 patents #1,256 of 4,755Top 30%
SMSuzuki Motor: 3 patents #180 of 1,209Top 15%
LMLsi Medience: 2 patents #2 of 70Top 3%
AKAsm Japan K.K.: 2 patents #42 of 128Top 35%
OCOki Electric Industry Co.: 2 patents #947 of 2,807Top 35%
ULUlvac: 2 patents #199 of 680Top 30%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,361 of 18,328Top 55%
AKAraco Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #30 of 107Top 30%
ACAsahi Glass Co.: 1 patents #1,233 of 2,251Top 55%
DHDrnc Holdings: 1 patents #37 of 71Top 55%
FTFtl: 1 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
HCHitachi Cable: 1 patents #530 of 1,086Top 50%
HGHGST: 1 patents #1,032 of 1,677Top 65%
IPI Peace: 1 patents #10 of 12Top 85%
Kyocera: 1 patents #2,054 of 3,732Top 60%
LJLumentum Japan: 1 patents #43 of 67Top 65%
OCOki Semiconductor Co.: 1 patents #202 of 526Top 40%
OJOpnext Japan: 1 patents #100 of 185Top 55%
TCThe Furukawa Battery Co.: 1 patents #17 of 73Top 25%
TTToyohashi University Of Technology: 1 patents #3 of 28Top 15%
Yamaha: 1 patents #1,232 of 2,001Top 65%
ACAquatech Co.: 1 patents #7 of 24Top 30%
Akashi, JP: #3 of 14 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #5,876 of 4,157,543Top 1%
154 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 101–125 of 154 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6717189 Electroless plating liquid and semiconductor device Kenji Nakamura, Moriji Matsumoto 2004-04-06
6716330 Electroless plating apparatus and method Akihisa Hongo, Koji Mishima, Norio Kimura, Tsutomu Karimata 2004-04-06
6706422 Electroless Ni—B plating liquid, electronic device and method for manufacturing the same Kenji Nakamura, Moriji Matsumoto, Hirokazu Ezawa, Masahiro Miyata, Manabu Tsujimura 2004-03-16
6690405 Thermal transfer printer, thermal transfer recording method and thermal transfer recording web roll Noboru Yamakawa, Hitoshi Saito, Hisaki Ota, Junichi Hiroi 2004-02-10
6689257 Substrate processing apparatus and substrate plating apparatus Koji Mishima, Junji Kunisawa, Natsuki Makino, Norio Kimura, Kenji Nakamura +3 more 2004-02-10
6659074 Spark ignition direct injection engine with shaped multihole injectors Andreas M. Lippert, Sherif H. El Tahry, Takahiro Noyori 2003-12-09
6632335 Plating apparatus Junji Kunisawa, Mitsuko Odagaki, Natsuki Makino, Koji Mishima, Kenji Nakamura +7 more 2003-10-14
6580446 Thermal transfer printer, thermal transfer recording method and thermal transfer recording web roll Noboru Yamakawa, Hitoshi Saito, Hisaki Ota, Junichi Hiroi 2003-06-17
6573201 Method and apparatus for protection of substrate surface Naoaki Ogure 2003-06-03
6569752 Semiconductor element and fabricating method thereof Soichi Homma, Masahiro Miyata, Hirokazu Ezawa, Junichiro Yoshioka, Tsuyoshi Tokuoka 2003-05-27
6544585 Method and apparatus for plating a substrate Fumio Kuriyama, Akihisa Hongo, Tsuyoshi Tokuoka 2003-04-08
6462969 Method and apparatus for controlling power supply units in a power supply based on the number of operating power supply units Osamu Sato 2002-10-08
6391775 Method of forming embedded copper interconnections and embedded copper interconnection structure Naoaki Ogure 2002-05-21
6303306 Method for amplifying and detecting of target nucleic acid sequence using thermostable enzyme Yutaka Takarada, Shuji Shibata, Yoshihisa Kawamura 2001-10-16
6294059 Substrate plating apparatus Akihisa Hongo, Naoaki Ogure, Norio Kimura, Fumio Kuriyama, Manabu Tsujimura +2 more 2001-09-25
6276134 Apparatus for controlling a plurality of hydraulic motors and a clutch Nobuo Matsuyama, Masao Fukuda, Masanori Ikari 2001-08-21
6242624 Method for making alkanol-or alkane-sulfone plumbate Junichiro Yoshioka, Kanji Ohno, Akiji Sekiguchi 2001-06-05
6225065 Kit for amplifying nucleic acid Masao Kitabayashi, Taku Arakawa, Bunsei Kawakami, Yoshihisa Kawamura, Tadayuki Imanaka +2 more 2001-05-01
6147408 Method of forming embedded copper interconnections and embedded copper interconnection structure Naoaki Ogure 2000-11-14
6125816 Cylinder injection system engine 2000-10-03
6122848 Hydraulic drive type working vehicle Masao Fukuda, Nobuo Matsuyama 2000-09-26
6054301 Methods of amplification using a thermostable DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon strain KOD1 and reagent kit therefor Masao Kitabayashi, Taku Arakawa, Bunsei Kawakami, Yoshihisa Kawamura, Tadayuki Imanaka +2 more 2000-04-25
6033859 Thermostable DNA polymerase from a hyperthermophilic archaeon strain KOD1 Masao Kitabayashi, Taku Arakawa, Bunsei Kawakami, Yoshihisa Kawamura, Tadayuki Imanaka +2 more 2000-03-07
5981183 Method for amplifying and detecting of target nucleic acid sequence using thermostable enzyme Yutaka Takarada, Shuji Shibata, Yoshihisa Kawamura 1999-11-09
5761352 Optical switch having a two-level crossing between input/output optical waveguides Shigeki Kitajima, Hideaki Takano, Toshihisa Tsukada 1998-06-02