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Masaki Kato — 333 Patents

INInphi: 58 patents #2 of 228Top 1%
Ricoh Company: 48 patents #249 of 9,818Top 3%
NINikon: 41 patents #58 of 2,493Top 3%
INInfinera: 37 patents #16 of 407Top 4%
Mitsubishi Electric: 31 patents #439 of 25,717Top 2%
KCKuraray Co.: 24 patents #19 of 1,827Top 2%
Disney: 18 patents #375 of 6,686Top 6%
Toyota: 16 patents #1,629 of 26,838Top 7%
MCMitsumi Electric Co.: 7 patents #122 of 935Top 15%
FCFuji Machine Mfg. Co.: 6 patents #24 of 245Top 10%
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha: 4 patents #844 of 3,782Top 25%
UKUshio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha: 3 patents #148 of 583Top 30%
KSKyocera Document Solutions: 3 patents #862 of 1,545Top 60%
KMKyocera Mita: 3 patents #214 of 763Top 30%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 3 patents #8,069 of 21,451Top 40%
TCTsubakimoto Chain: 3 patents #140 of 593Top 25%
Panasonic: 3 patents #7,659 of 21,108Top 40%
KGKuraray Europe Gmbh: 2 patents #16 of 80Top 20%
SESeiko Epson: 2 patents #4,555 of 7,774Top 60%
NINec Infrontia: 2 patents #62 of 197Top 35%
HCHokuriku Electric Industry Co.: 2 patents #29 of 104Top 30%
NINidec: 2 patents #402 of 976Top 45%
Nec: 2 patents #5,544 of 14,502Top 40%
TITexas Instruments: 2 patents #5,266 of 12,488Top 45%
FUFuji: 2 patents #192 of 422Top 50%
Nissan Motor Co.: 2 patents #3,090 of 8,689Top 40%
SCScreen Holdings Co.: 1 patents #452 of 686Top 70%
MMMitsubishi Mining: 1 patents #886 of 2,247Top 40%
NTNtn: 1 patents #814 of 1,364Top 60%
ETEnergetiq Technology: 1 patents #22 of 35Top 65%
Kioxia: 1 patents #1,054 of 1,813Top 60%
ATAgency Of Industrial Science And Technology: 1 patents #568 of 1,778Top 35%
TDThe Doshisha: 1 patents #48 of 175Top 30%
The Yokohama Rubber Co.: 1 patents #666 of 1,136Top 60%
Yamaha Motor: 1 patents #1,283 of 2,310Top 60%
ACAlps Electric Co.: 1 patents #1,191 of 2,177Top 55%
Palo Alto, CA: #8 of 9,675 inventorsTop 1%
California: #183 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #1,008 of 4,157,543Top 1%
333 Patents All Time
Masaki Kato has been granted 333 US patents while listed as an inventor at Inphi. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in October 2025. Masaki Kato ranks #1,008 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.02%). Patent records list Masaki Kato in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 26 patents in 2017.peak 261993: 1 patents19931997: 2 patents1998: 4 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 4 patents20022003: 4 patents2004: 9 patents2005: 5 patents20052006: 8 patents2007: 5 patents2008: 16 patents20082009: 9 patents2010: 5 patents2011: 11 patents20112012: 23 patents2013: 18 patents2014: 17 patents20142015: 17 patents2016: 20 patents2017: 26 patents20172018: 22 patents2019: 23 patents2020: 21 patents20202021: 16 patents2022: 11 patents2023: 10 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 11 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 333 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12437359 Information processing device, control method, program, and storage medium Masami Suzuki 2025-10-07
12429718 Ultra-high bandwidth multi-junction silicon optical modulator Samira Karimelahi 2025-09-30
12424629 Negative electrode Koji Takahata 2025-09-23
12415361 Liquid ejection device Hirokazu Sekino, Yuji Saito 2025-09-16
12376302 Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing semiconductor memory device Saho Ohsawa, Kenichi Fujii, Takashi Fukushima, Hiroyuki OHTORI, Kaihei KATOU +2 more 2025-07-29
12360406 Multi-doped slab silicon optical modulator Samira Karimelahi 2025-07-15
12355033 All-solid-state battery Sho Ando, Akira Kiyama, Koshiro YONEDA, Kensaku Miyazawa, Kunimitsu YAMAMOTO 2025-07-08
12336308 Germanium-on-silicon avalanche photodetector in silicon photonics platform, method of making the same Yu Li 2025-06-17
12283997 Reconfigurable optical receiver for use with multiple modulation techniques Tonmoy Shankar Mukherjee, Gary Mak, Lenin Patra, Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan 2025-04-22
12248253 Optical device, exposure device, method for manufacturing flat panel display, and method for manufacturing device Yasushi Mizuno 2025-03-11
12228808 Semiconductor-based optical modulator Hamed Pishvaibazargani 2025-02-18
12153251 Silicon photonics integration circuit Xiaoguang Tu, Yu Li 2024-11-26 $158,968,000
11897496 Vehicle warning system Yasuhiro Miura, Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki 2024-02-13 $721,000
11899372 Optical device, exposure device, method for manufacturing flat panel display, and method for manufacturing device Yasushi Mizuno 2024-02-13 $18,546,000
11858275 Inkjet printing apparatus, and a method of maintaining a filter thereof Tamio Fukui, Yuichi Nagase 2024-01-02
11828995 Silicon photonics based fiber coupler Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan 2023-11-28 $61,297,000
11787928 Polyvinyl alcohol compositions having improved particle size distribution Ghebrehiwet Ghebremeskel, Keisuke Morikawa, Richard Cazares 2023-10-17
11784463 Silicon photonics based tunable laser Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan, Nourhan Eid, Kenneth Wong 2023-10-10 $142,805,000
11777101 Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery 2023-10-03 $618,000
11740406 Circuit for detecting low-power optical data signal Jie Lin, Bruno Tourette, Brian Taylor 2023-08-29 $102,494,000
11733300 Switch status detection device that detects on/off status of switch, and image forming apparatus 2023-08-22
11731513 Display control device, display system, display method, and program 2023-08-22 $519,000
11686991 Silicon optical modulator, method for making the same Xiaoguang Tu, Jie Lin 2023-06-27 $103,381,000
11662521 TE polarizer based on SOI platform Jie Lin 2023-05-30 $131,597,000
11644305 Temperature insensitive distributed strain monitoring apparatus and method Chunshu Zhang, Jie Lin 2023-05-09 $86,573,000