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Hiroshi Numata — 12 Patents

Merck: 12 patents #936 of 9,382Top 10%
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha: 5 patents #3,007 of 10,731Top 30%
Yokohama, JP: #8,715 of 49,234 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Hiroshi Numata has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in January 2003. Hiroshi Numata ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Hiroshi Numata in Yokohama, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6506462 Liquid crystalline medium Kazuaki Tarumi, Brigitte Schuler, Michael Schwarz, Hideo Ichinose, Yasuyoshi Namiki +1 more 2003-01-14 $258,666,000
6406761 Liquid-crystalline medium Kazuaki Tarumi, Brigitte Schuler, Michael Schwarz, Hideo Ichinose, Yasuyoshi Namiki +1 more 2002-06-18 $142,789,000
5948319 Nematic liquid crystal mixtures Yukiomi Tanaka 1999-09-07 $189,941,000
5827450 Benzene derivatives, and liquid-crystalline medium Hideo Ichinose, Fumio Shimano 1998-10-27 $312,218,000
5753142 Nematic liquid-crystal composition for active matrix application Herbert Plach, Ekkehard Bartmann, Eike Poetsch, Syuichi Kozaki, Kazuyoshi Fujioka +2 more 1998-05-19 $131,585,000
5714087 Supertwist liquid-crystal display Axel Pausch, Akihiro Kojima, Matthias Bremer, Hideo Ichinose, Michael Junge +5 more 1998-02-03 $106,480,000
5480581 Liquid-crystalline medium Herbert Plach, Ulrich Finkenzeller, Volker Reiffenrath, Eike Poetsch, Bernhard Rieger 1996-01-02 $123,008,000
5431850 Nematic liquid-crystal composition for active matrix application Masako Nakamura, Kei Sasaki, Shuichi Kohzaki, Fumiaki Funada, Hideo Ichinose +2 more 1995-07-11 $75,054,000
5374374 Supertwist liquid-crystal display Georg Weber, Herbert Plach, Volker Reiffenrath, Hiroki Yoshitake 1994-12-20 $40,841,000
5330679 Nematic liquid-crystal composition for active matrix application Kei Sasaki, Masako Okada, Shuichi Kohzaki, Fumiaki Funada, Bernhard Rieger +5 more 1994-07-19 $43,444,000
5308543 Nematic liquid-crystal composition for active matrix application Kei Sasaki, Masako Okada, Shuichi Kohzaki, Fumiaki Funada, Bernhard Rieger +5 more 1994-05-03 $21,078,000
5279763 Nematic liquid-crystal composition for active matrix application Kei Sasaki, Masako Okada, Shuichi Kohzaki, Fumiaki Funada, Shohei Naemura +2 more 1994-01-18 $64,089,000