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Ken Inoue — 74 Patents

Nec: 15 patents #770 of 14,502Top 6%
IBM: 13 patents #8,610 of 70,183Top 15%
SESeiko Epson: 11 patents #1,668 of 7,774Top 25%
NENec Electronics: 9 patents #47 of 1,789Top 3%
RERenesas Electronics: 9 patents #397 of 4,529Top 9%
SKShowa Denko K.K.: 4 patents #353 of 1,736Top 25%
DCDowa Electronics Materials Co.: 3 patents #68 of 241Top 30%
YEYokogawa Electric: 3 patents #261 of 1,441Top 20%
Hitachi: 3 patents #10,718 of 28,497Top 40%
KSKobe Steel: 2 patents #552 of 2,031Top 30%
DCDowa Mining Co.: 1 patents #157 of 324Top 50%
TUTohoku University: 1 patents #615 of 1,680Top 40%
TLTokyo Electron Limited: 1 patents #3,538 of 5,567Top 65%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #26,215 of 4,157,543Top 1%
74 Patents All Time
Ken Inoue has been granted 74 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nec. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in May 2025. Ken Inoue ranks #26,215 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.63%). Patent records list Ken Inoue in Shiojiri, NY, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 51991: 1 patents19911994: 1 patents1996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 3 patents2000: 4 patents20002001: 5 patents2003: 2 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 3 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 5 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 4 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 4 patents2019: 4 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 74 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12296594 Method of controlling a liquid ejecting device and liquid ejecting device Tomoki Shinoda, Shunsuke Kuramata, Masaaki Ando 2025-05-13
12227003 Liquid discharge apparatus and method for controlling liquid discharge apparatus Akira Shinoto, Ryota Takahashi 2025-02-18
12154003 Phase-robust matched kernel acquisition for qubit state determination Maika Takita, Antonio Corcoles-Gonzalez, Scott D. Lekuch 2024-11-26 $25,600,000
12136019 System and method for latency-aware mapping of quantum circuits to quantum chips Ali Javadiabhari, Scott D. Lekuch 2024-11-05 $24,022,000
12099903 Dynamic adaptive thresholding for qubit reset Maika Takita, Antonio Corcoles-Gonzalez, Scott D. Lekuch 2024-09-24 $17,828,000
11636372 Phase-robust matched kernel acquisition for qubit state determination Maika Takita, Antonio Corcoles-Gonzalez, Scott D. Lekuch 2023-04-25 $8,760,000
11537925 System and method for latency-aware mapping of quantum circuits to quantum chips Ali Javadiabhari, Scott D. Lekuch 2022-12-27 $9,721,000
10601634 Cloud service control device having an information transferor configured to limit the transfer of service information, a cloud service control system having a cloud service control device, a related cloud service control method, and a related storage medium Hisanori Hayashi 2020-03-24
10452280 Hybrid storage system employing reconfigurable memory Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano 2019-10-22 $3,154,000
10283155 Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus Kota Hasegawa 2019-05-07
10242470 Energy management system, display control apparatus, display method, and computer-readable storage medium 2019-03-26
10173430 Printing apparatus and control method Yuichi Urabe, Kazushi ARAFUKA 2019-01-08
10090678 Production energy management system and computer program Tomoyuki Ikeyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Akira Seki 2018-10-02
10056103 Method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus Gohei Kurokawa, Haruhisa OHASHI 2018-08-21
9959895 Method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus Kenji Shimizu, Gohei Kurokawa, Haruhisa OHASHI 2018-05-01
9950536 Liquid supply mechanism and liquid ejecting apparatus 2018-04-24
9315040 Inkjet printer 2016-04-19
9186900 Printer and printing head moving mechanism Tetsugo Ishida 2015-11-17
8837087 Thin magnetic film, method of manufacturing the same, and high frequency oscillator, magnetic head, magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus using thin magnetic film Akihiko Takeo, Akira Kikitsu, Tomoyuki Maeda, Migaku Takahashi, Shin Saito +1 more 2014-09-16
8714700 Inkjet printer 2014-05-06
8710569 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Masayuki Hamada 2014-04-29
8610219 Semiconductor device having a memory cell section, an adjacent circuit section, and silicide formed on an impurity diffused region Masayuki Hamada 2013-12-17
8590994 Liquid ejecting device, printing apparatus and liquid supplying method 2013-11-26
8575701 Semiconductor device where logic region and DRAM are formed on same substrate 2013-11-05
8471322 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof 2013-06-25