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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Hideki Sugimoto — 30 Patents

Sony: 10 patents #4,425 of 25,231Top 20%
NENec Electronics: 5 patents #112 of 1,789Top 7%
Nec: 4 patents #3,401 of 14,502Top 25%
Ricoh Company: 3 patents #4,832 of 9,818Top 50%
FCFunai Electric Co.: 3 patents #330 of 943Top 35%
RERenesas Electronics: 2 patents #1,855 of 4,529Top 45%
SASafie: 1 patents #7 of 23Top 35%
Yokohama, JP: #3,046 of 49,234 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Hideki Sugimoto has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2024. Hideki Sugimoto ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Hideki Sugimoto in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2014.peak 51998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012004: 4 patents2010: 3 patents20102012: 3 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 5 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172022: 2 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12108143 Portable imaging device Hironori Sakamoto, Yusuke Shimada, Longshen Yang 2024-10-01
11490053 Work instruction system and image processing apparatus Akihiro Matsuoka 2022-11-01 $636,000
11458752 Printer 2022-10-04
9740636 Information processing apparatus Masayuki Ito 2017-08-22
9483125 Position information obtaining device and method, and image display system 2016-11-01
9363412 Accelerator circuit and image processing apparatus Akihiro Matsuoka, Shimpei SONODA 2016-06-07
9318167 Information processing apparatus Masayuki Ito 2016-04-19
8988322 Display unit with gradation control, method of driving the same, and electronics device 2015-03-24 $380,000
8922536 Method for driving display element and method for driving display device Katsuhide Uchino 2014-12-30 $187,000
8810558 Display device and electronic apparatus Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita, Seiichiro Jinta, Katsuhide Uchino 2014-08-19 $159,000
8723785 Liquid crystal display and driving method of liquid crystal display Hiroshi Hasegawa 2014-05-13 $174,000
8681078 Display unit, method of driving the same, and electronics device 2014-03-25 $163,000
8654042 Display apparatus and display driving method Naobumi Toyomura 2014-02-18 $209,000
8525758 Method for driving display element and method for driving display device Katsuhide Uchino 2013-09-03 $179,000
8169432 Display device and electronic apparatus Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita, Seiichiro Jinta, Katsuhide Uchino 2012-05-01 $106,000
8094253 Display device, driving method of display device, and driving method of display element Tomoaki Handa, Naobumi Toyomura, Katsuhide Uchino 2012-01-10 $123,000
8094252 Display apparatus and method for driving the same Tomoaki Handa, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino 2012-01-10 $123,000
7849295 Data processing apparatus and data processing method including dividing data to be processed 2010-12-07
7804331 Semiconductor device 2010-09-28
7719347 Semiconductor integrated circuit and method of controlling the same 2010-05-18
6748415 Picture print playing apparatus capable of replacing a frame picture according to a set period 2004-06-08
6704858 Information processor and method for switching those register files 2004-03-09 $26,000
6687808 Data processor using indirect register addressing 2004-02-03 $52,000
6672723 Liquid crystal projector Shinya Watanabe, Yoshifumi Akaike 2004-01-06
6233603 Play device for generating and electronically exchanging synthesized self-portrait Hisahiro MATSUHASHI 2001-05-15