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Toru Shirai — 58 Patents

Hitachi: 26 patents #1,179 of 28,497Top 5%
FHFujifilm Healthcare: 19 patents #1 of 164Top 1%
FUFujifilm: 5 patents #1,507 of 4,519Top 35%
HMHitachi Medical: 3 patents #208 of 680Top 35%
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #6,861 of 10,731Top 65%
Chiba, JP: #82 of 6,266 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #41,319 of 4,157,543Top 1%
58 Patents All Time
Toru Shirai has been granted 58 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hitachi. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in December 2025. Toru Shirai ranks #41,319 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.99%). Patent records list Toru Shirai in Chiba, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2024.peak 102010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 7 patents2023: 5 patents20232024: 10 patents2025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 58 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511724 Image processing device, image processing method, and magnetic resonance imaging device Tomoki Amemiya, Atsusi Suzuki, Yusuke Kaneko, Chinari Tanaka 2025-12-30
12469126 Image analysis device, image analysis method, and image analysis program Ryota SATOH, Tomoki Amemiya, Yoshitaka Bito 2025-11-11
12458306 X-ray imaging device and treatment tool recognition method Kazuki Matsuzaki 2025-11-04
12436216 Image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and signal separation method Takashi Nishihara, Yoshitaka Bito, Masahiro Takizawa 2025-10-07
12357190 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing device, and image processing method Yo Taniguchi, Tomoki Amemiya 2025-07-15
12310761 Medical imaging apparatus including biological signal processing system, medical imaging system, and biological signal processing method Yukio Kaneko, Hikaru Hanada, Masahiro Takizawa 2025-05-27
12153112 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and signal separation method Ryota Sato, Takashi Nishihara, Masahiro Takizawa, Yoshitaka Bito 2024-11-26
12148127 Medical image processing device, medical imaging apparatus, and noise reduction method for medical image Yukio Kaneko, Atsuro Suzuki, Tomoki Amemiya, Suguru Yokosawa 2024-11-19
12130347 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method Tomoki Amemiya, Atsuro Suzuki, Yukio Kaneko, Hiroki Shoji, Keisuke Nishio 2024-10-29
12089921 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing method Yo Taniguchi 2024-09-17
12032050 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, sensitivity distribution calculation method, and sensitivity distribution calculation program Yasuhiro Kamada, Masahiro Takizawa, Hisaaki Ochi 2024-07-09
11940520 Magnetic resonance imaging device, image processing device, and image processing method Ryota Sato, Suguru Yokosawa, Kazuho Kamba, Yoshitaka Sato, Masahiro Takizawa 2024-03-26
11918337 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, noise reduction method and image processing apparatus Suguru Yokosawa, Yukio Kaneko, Atsuro Suzuki, Tomoki Amemiya 2024-03-05
11914015 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing method Hiroki Shoji, Shinji Kurokawa 2024-02-27
11892533 Magnetic resonance imaging device and control method thereof Ryota Sato, Suguru Yokosawa, Yo Taniguchi, Yoshitaka Sato, Kazuho Kamba 2024-02-06
11885856 Head coil device and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus using the same Kohjiro Iwasawa, Takanori Nishiyama, Kazuyuki Kato, Hideta Habara, Yosuke Otake +1 more 2024-01-30
11774527 Receiving coil device and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including the same Kohjiro Iwasawa, Yosuke Otake, Hideta Habara, Kazuyuki Kato, Yukio Kaneko +1 more 2023-10-03
11701024 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processor, and image processing method Suguru Yokosawa, Hisako Nagao, Yasuhide Yoshida, Yasuo Kawata, Kuniaki HARADA 2023-07-18
11686801 Magnetic resonance imaging device and sensitivity distribution calculation program Shinji Kurokawa, Yasuhiro Kamada, Takenori Murase, Hiroki Shoji 2023-06-27
11600378 Image diagnosis support apparatus, image diagnosis support program, and medical image acquisition apparatus including the same Ryota SATOH, Tomoki Amemiya, Yoshitaka Bito 2023-03-07
11579231 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and phase correcting method Ryota SATOH, Keisuke Nishio, Yasuhiro Kamada, Yoshitaka Sato, Masahiro Takizawa 2023-02-14
11526989 Medical image processing apparatus, medical image analysis apparatus, and standard image generation program Ryota SATOH, Yasuo Kawata, Tomoki Amemiya, Yoshitaka Bito, Hisaaki Ochi 2022-12-13
11486951 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method Yo Taniguchi, Hisaaki Ochi, Tomoki Amemiya 2022-11-01
11436723 Image diagnosis support device, image diagnosis support program, and medical image acquisition apparatus Tomoki Amemiya, Ryota SATOH, Suguru Yokosawa, Hisaaki Ochi 2022-09-06
11432738 Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and magnetic resonance imaging device Ryota SATOH, Hisaaki Ochi 2022-09-06