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Shotaro Kitamura — 9 Patents

Nec: 5 patents #2,841 of 14,502Top 20%
NENec Electronics: 2 patents #384 of 1,789Top 25%
RERenesas Electronics: 1 patents #2,739 of 4,529Top 65%
Tokyo, JP: #17,063 of 90,295 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Shotaro Kitamura has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nec. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in July 2013. Shotaro Kitamura ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Shotaro Kitamura in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2000.peak 21994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19982000: 2 patents20002009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8477819 Semiconductor laser diode device and method of fabrication thereof 2013-07-02
7666694 Method for manufacturing semiconductor laser device and semiconductor laser device Masahide Kobayashi 2010-02-23
7633986 Distributed feedback laser diode Yasutaka Sakata 2009-12-15
6141477 Semiconductor optical amplification element 2000-10-31 $67,000
6052222 Semiconductor optical amplifier 2000-04-18 $91,000
5770466 Semiconductor optical integrated circuits and method for fabricating the same Tatsuya Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Kitamura, Kiichi Hamamoto, Keiro Komatsu, Yasutaka Sakata 1998-06-23 $18,000
5659565 Semiconductor optical device with mesa structure which is surrounded laterally by insulating mask for preventing current from leaking directly from cladding layer to substrate and process of fabrication thereof 1997-08-19
5565693 Semiconductor optical integrated circuits Tatsuya Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Kitamura, Kiichi Hamamoto, Keiro Komatsu, Yasutaka Sakata 1996-10-15 $13,000
5374587 Method of manufacturing optical semiconductor element 1994-12-20 $41,000