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Shigemitsu Ando — 5 Patents

MAMaxell: 5 patents #120 of 437Top 30%
Kyoto, JP: #3,664 of 11,909 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Shigemitsu Ando has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxell. The first was granted in 2020 and the most recent in June 2023. Shigemitsu Ando ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Shigemitsu Ando in Kyoto, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2020 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2023.peak 22020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11678837 Hardness meter and hardness measuring method for estimating target object having hardness estimation portion that estimates hardness of measurement object based Yuko Sano, Akihiko Kandori, Mitsuo Okimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe 2023-06-20
11619572 Durometer Akihiko Kandori, Yuko Sano, Yuhua Zhang, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Mitsuo Okimoto 2023-04-04
11337641 Hardness meter and method having hardness estimation portion that estimates hardness of measurement object based on alternating current component Yuko Sano, Akihiko Kandori, Mitsuo Okimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe 2022-05-24
11092526 Durometer Akihiko Kandori, Yuko Sano, Yuhua Zhang, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Mitsuo Okimoto 2021-08-17
10620101 Durometer Akihiko Kandori, Yuko Sano, Yuhua Zhang, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Mitsuo Okimoto 2020-04-14