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Hideho Maeda — 5 Patents

Sony: 5 patents #7,811 of 25,231Top 35%
Yokohama, JP: #16,650 of 49,234 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Hideho Maeda has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in July 2012. Hideho Maeda ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Hideho Maeda in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1993.peak 11993: 1 patents19931997: 1 patents19972008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8213284 Multi-layered rewritable optical disc recording apparatus and recording method Tetsuji Kawashima, Yukio Shishido, Yoshiyuki Tokumoto, Toru Ifuku, Hiroshi Naganuma +1 more 2012-07-03 $71,000
7969845 Optical recording apparatus, recording method for optical recording medium and optical recording medium Satoshi Kitani, Takashi Sasaki 2011-06-28 $260,000
7461389 Adaptor member for a disc drive Kiyoshi Omori, Satoshi Muto, Yuji Suzuki, Toru Tanaka, Naoya Hoshino 2008-12-02 $465,000
5617264 Method and apparatus for rewriting data to a floppy disk by storing reproduced data in a memory Keiichi Taguchi, Masaharu Yanaga 1997-04-01 $185,000
5233296 Floppy disk drive revolution detector avoiding interference with magnetic circuit Masanori Kitamura 1993-08-03 $115,000