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Futoshi Tsukada — 8 Patents

Sony: 6 patents #6,820 of 25,231Top 30%
SCShinko Electric Industries Co.: 2 patents #392 of 723Top 55%
Nagano, JP: #728 of 3,331 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Futoshi Tsukada has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in March 2024. Futoshi Tsukada ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Futoshi Tsukada in Nagano, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2003.peak 21996: 1 patents19962001: 1 patents20012003: 2 patents20032004: 2 patents20042016: 1 patents20162024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11929342 Semiconductor device with leads having step surfaces Yukinori Hatori, Yoshiyuki Sawamura 2024-03-12
9490233 Fingerprint recognition semiconductor device and semiconductor device Yukinori Hatori, Takashi Ozawa, Kazuya Kojima 2016-11-08
6765851 Optical disc, data-recording apparatus and data-recording method Tetsuji Kawashima, Kunihiko Miyake, Shinji Ohta, Masazumi Shiozawa 2004-07-20 $878,000
6693855 Optical disc and optical disc apparatus Tetsuji Kawashima, Yukio Shishido, Kunihiko Miyake 2004-02-17 $1,230,000
6636461 Recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus having reciprocal time domain to binary conversion means Tetsuji Kawashima, Michihiko Iida 2003-10-21 $832,000
6600707 Optical disc and optical disc driving device 2003-07-29 $498,000
6229772 Optical disc device and optical disc discriminating method Eiji Kumagai, Kenji Nagashima 2001-05-08 $1,479,000
5586098 Optical disc apparatus for controlling laser power for each zone of a zone record system Norio Nishida 1996-12-17 $142,000