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Ichiro Ando — 44 Patents

MCMenicon Co.: 21 patents #2 of 263Top 1%
VJVictor Company Of Japan: 17 patents #56 of 1,489Top 4%
SCShin-Etsu Chemical Co.: 7 patents #535 of 2,176Top 25%
NINikon: 3 patents #1,048 of 2,493Top 45%
TCToyo Communication Equipment Co.: 2 patents #17 of 111Top 20%
SASasaki & Associates: 1 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
TKTomei Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #12 of 35Top 35%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Ichiro Ando has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Menicon Co.. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in February 2024. Ichiro Ando ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Ichiro Ando in Kasugai, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1998.peak 61990: 2 patents19901991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1995: 4 patents1996: 3 patents19961997: 4 patents1998: 6 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2017: 3 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 2 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–44 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5719962 Method of and apparatus for compressing image representing signals Takayuki Sugahara 1998-02-17 $146,000
5717641 Method of storing data and a data storing apparatus Masato Matsuzawa 1998-02-10 $140,000
5689307 Encoding and decoding systems for transmitting moving pictures Takayuki Sugahara 1997-11-18 $163,000
5661194 Water-absorptive soft contact lens Toru Kawaguchi, Yasushi Yamamoto, Yasuo Tarumi 1997-08-26
5644658 Method of and apparatus for compressing image representing signals Takayuki Sugahara 1997-07-01 $70,000
5615308 Rule-based production system adapted for complex procedures flow Akio Sasaki, Tomoyuki Minamiyama, Shoichi Maki, Siryo Yasui, Hiroshi Ichise 1997-03-25
5561719 Adaptive quantization apparatus Takayuki Sugahara, Kenji Sugiyama 1996-10-01 $69,000
5542008 Method of and apparatus for compressing image representing signals Takayuki Sugahara 1996-07-30 $44,000
5519070 Soft ocular lens material Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Shoji Ichinohe, Toshio Yamazaki 1996-05-21
5452453 Rule based production system adapted for complex procedural flow Akio Sasaki, Tomoyuki Minamiyama, Shoichi Maki, Siryo Yasui, Hiroshi Ichise 1995-09-19
5418569 Method and apparatus for predictive coding of moving images while adaptively changing the method in accordance with them 1995-05-23 $75,000
5416132 Ocular lens material Yasuhiro Yokoyama, Noriko Iwata, Eri Ito, Shoji Ichinohe, Toshio Yamazaki 1995-05-16
5391591 Oxygen permeable hard contact lens materials comprising a fluoroalkyl(silicon-containing alkyl) fumarate copolymer Toru Kawaguchi, Nobuyuki Toyoshima, Yasushi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Toshio Yamazaki 1995-02-21
5346946 Ocular lens material Yasuhiro Yokoyama, Noriko Iwata, Eri Ito, Shoji Ichinohe, Toshio Yamazaki 1994-09-13
5250583 Ocular lens material Toru Kawaguchi, Nobuyuki Toyoshima, Yasushi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Toshio Yamazaki 1993-10-05
5173952 Image filtering system performing transform coding of image data other than boundary picture elements of adjoining blocks Takayuki Sugahara 1992-12-22 $50,000
4999704 System for efficiently coding a moving-picture signal, capable of selecting several different coding systems 1991-03-12 $71,000
4954586 Soft ocular lens material Nobuyuki Toyoshima, Takanori Shibata, Atsushi Hirashima, Noriko Iwata, Hiroshi Yoshioka +2 more 1990-09-04
4904421 Soft ocular lens and method for its preparation Toru Kawaguchi 1990-02-27