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Minoru Katoh — 16 Patents

Hitachi: 7 patents #5,864 of 28,497Top 25%
NINikon: 6 patents #659 of 2,493Top 30%
HCHitachi Keiyo Engineering Co.: 4 patents #21 of 115Top 20%
HCHitachi Ulsi Systems Co.: 3 patents #305 of 867Top 40%
RTRenesas Technology: 3 patents #990 of 3,337Top 30%
Hitachinaka, JP: #318 of 2,447 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Minoru Katoh has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hitachi. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in January 2008. Minoru Katoh ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Minoru Katoh in Hitachinaka, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 1998.peak 51995: 1 patents19951997: 1 patents19971998: 5 patents19982001: 2 patents20012002: 3 patents20022003: 1 patents20032006: 2 patents20062008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7317658 Semiconductor integrated circuit and IC card Yoshio Takazawa, Toshio Yamada, Shinichi Ozawa, Takeo Kanai, Koudou Yamauchi +1 more 2008-01-08 $396,000
7154804 Semiconductor integrated circuit and IC card Yoshio Takazawa, Toshio Yamada, Shinichi Ozawa, Takeo Kanai, Koudou Yamauchi +1 more 2006-12-26 $98,000
7046573 Semiconductor integrated circuit and IC card Yoshio Takazawa, Toshio Yamada, Shinichi Ozawa, Takeo Kanai, Koudou Yamauchi +1 more 2006-05-16 $99,000
6641399 VR motion base control apparatus and it's supporting structure Tsukasa Shiina, Masayuki Oshiro, Takayuki Kamiya, Hiroshi Sakairi, Masami Otomo +1 more 2003-11-04 $240,000
6413090 VR motion base control apparatus and it's supporting structure Tsukasa Shiina, Masayuki Oshiro, Takayuki Kamiya, Hiroshi Sakairi, Masami Otomo +1 more 2002-07-02 $224,000
6409509 VR motion base control apparatus and it's supporting structure Tsukasa Shiina, Masayuki Oshiro, Takayuki Kamiya, Hiroshi Sakairi, Masami Otomo +1 more 2002-06-25 $149,000
6336811 VR motion base control apparatus and it's supporting structure Tsukasa Shiina, Masayuki Oshiro, Takayuki Kamiya, Hiroshi Sakairi, Masami Otomo +1 more 2002-01-08 $223,000
6287021 Apparatus for coupling electronic components within electronic devices such as cameras Hidenori Miyamoto, Tadashi Otani, Tomoki Nishimura 2001-09-11
6264378 Camera having slide cover Hidenori Miyamoto, Tomoki Nishimura 2001-07-24
5796430 Video camera with a function to correct defective pixels of solid state image pickup device and method of correcting defective pixels of solid state image pickup device Kenji Itoh, Hiroyasu Ohtsubo 1998-08-18 $279,000
5787318 Camera having adjustable aperture Hiroshi Wakabayashi, Kiyosada Machida 1998-07-28
5745813 Camera provided with a rear surface switch Noriyasu Kotani, Kiyosada Machida, Junichi Omi, Hiroshi Wakabayashi 1998-04-28
5734943 Device having cartridge chamber with positioned cover Kiyosada Machida, Junichi Omi 1998-03-31
5734937 Lens barrel standard position detection device and method Kiyosada Machida, Junichi Omi 1998-03-31
5625413 Video camera with a function to correct defective pixels of solid state image pickup device and method of correcting defective pixels of solid state image Kenji Itoh, Hiroyasu Ohtsubo 1997-04-29 $96,000
5414463 Video cameras capable of switching an aspect ratio and view finders for use in the same Kotaro Kawamura, Hidenobu Katayori 1995-05-09 $39,000

Frequent Collaborators

Kenji Seino4 shared
Masayuki Oshiro4 shared
Kiyosada Machida4 shared
Takayuki Kamiya4 shared
Hiroshi Sakairi4 shared
Tsukasa Shiina4 shared

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