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Shotaro Ando — 6 Patents

SHShimadzu: 6 patents #288 of 2,007Top 15%
Kyoto, JP: #3,222 of 11,909 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Shotaro Ando has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Shimadzu. The first was granted in 2023 and the most recent in July 2025. Shotaro Ando ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Shotaro Ando in Kyoto, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2023 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2025.peak 32023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12360088 Liquid chromatograph Hiroyuki Minato 2025-07-15
12306074 Liquid waste monitoring device 2025-05-20
12247961 Column accommodation device and liquid chromatograph Takashi Inoue, Tsutomu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Minato, Nobumitsu Fukushima 2025-03-11
12105063 Auto-sampler for chromatographs Takashi Inoue, Kenichi Yasunaga 2024-10-01
12031959 Auto-sampler for chromatographs Takashi Inoue, Kenichi Yasunaga 2024-07-09
11821878 Autosampler Takashi Inoue 2023-11-21