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Tomio Amano — 14 Patents

IBM: 14 patents #8,031 of 70,183Top 15%
Yokohama, JP: #7,549 of 49,234 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Tomio Amano has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2017. Tomio Amano ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Tomio Amano in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 21991: 1 patents19911996: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9703689 Defect detection using test cases generated from test models Natsumi Kurashima, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Rei Suginaka, Masaru Yamamoto 2017-07-11 $1,748,000
8950661 Realizing desktop metaphors on a computer 2015-02-10 $3,717,000
8645908 Method for generating specifications of static test 2014-02-04 $4,435,000
8102273 Guidance system by detecting tapped location Kimitake Hobo, Makoto Kobayashi, Ai Okada 2012-01-24 $7,514,000
7953790 Session information inheriting method and apparatus Hirokazu Izumidate, Satoru Nunoya, Masahiro Ikarashi 2011-05-31 $4,283,000
7895259 Method for preventing use of multiple application instances 2011-02-22 $3,876,000
7792861 Access control system and methods Michiharu Kudoh 2010-09-07 $2,081,000
7409390 Access control system and methods Michiharu Kudoh 2008-08-05 $7,485,000
6983056 Method and device for embedding and detecting watermarking information into a black and white binary document image 2006-01-03 $6,490,000
6782509 Method and system for embedding information in document Yuki HIRAYAMA, Shuichi Shimizu, Norishige Morimoto 2004-08-24 $9,549,000
6647388 Access control system, access control method, storage medium and program transmission apparatus Masayuki Numao, Michiharu Kudoh 2003-11-11 $12,741,000
6003033 System and method for describing and creating a user defined arbitrary data structure corresponding to a tree in a computer memory Akio Yamashita, Hiroyasu Takahashi 1999-12-14 $24,869,000
5509092 Method and apparatus for generating information on recognized characters Yuki HIRAYAMA, Akio Yamashita 1996-04-16 $11,483,000
5033104 Method for detecting character strings 1991-07-16 $15,364,000