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Hideki Watanabe — 177 Patents

Sony: 30 patents #1,178 of 25,231Top 5%
ZKZama Japan Kabushiki Kaisha: 16 patents #2 of 30Top 7%
CKCasio Keisanki: 14 patents #10 of 124Top 9%
TUTohoku University: 12 patents #29 of 1,680Top 2%
HCHitachi Koki Co.: 9 patents #123 of 888Top 15%
Honda Motor Co.: 9 patents #2,356 of 21,052Top 15%
Nissan Motor Co.: 8 patents #916 of 8,689Top 15%
Fujitsu Limited: 7 patents #4,529 of 24,456Top 20%
SASanden: 6 patents #65 of 631Top 15%
Panasonic: 6 patents #4,450 of 21,108Top 25%
SISeiko Instruments: 5 patents #328 of 1,437Top 25%
NTNational Institute Of Advanced Industrial Science And Technology: 5 patents #233 of 3,134Top 8%
Hitachi: 5 patents #7,560 of 28,497Top 30%
SESega Enterprises: 5 patents #51 of 368Top 15%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 5 patents #5,724 of 21,451Top 30%
DCDainippon Ink And Chemicals: 5 patents #79 of 1,002Top 8%
ACAlps Electric Co.: 4 patents #470 of 2,177Top 25%
FCFurukawa Electric Co.: 4 patents #478 of 2,370Top 25%
SSSumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon: 3 patents #15 of 146Top 15%
DKDenki Kagaku Kogyo: 3 patents #98 of 655Top 15%
ICIida Denki Kogyo Co.: 3 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
DIDic: 3 patents #189 of 844Top 25%
MAMakita: 3 patents #330 of 770Top 45%
AKAndreas Stihl Ag & Co. Kg: 2 patents #293 of 807Top 40%
NLNippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited: 2 patents #332 of 836Top 40%
Mitsubishi Electric: 2 patents #11,187 of 25,717Top 45%
KSKawasaki Steel: 2 patents #570 of 1,922Top 30%
Kawasaki: 2 patents #1,008 of 2,943Top 35%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 2 patents #9,741 of 21,551Top 50%
SISumitomo Metal Industries: 2 patents #334 of 1,462Top 25%
Ricoh Company: 1 patents #6,943 of 9,818Top 75%
Denso: 1 patents #6,940 of 11,792Top 60%
FLFujitsu Client Computing Limited: 1 patents #29 of 83Top 35%
HCHakko Electric Machine Works Co.: 1 patents #8 of 14Top 60%
HEHitachi Micro Computer Engineering: 1 patents #131 of 393Top 35%
HUHokkaido University: 1 patents #20 of 74Top 30%
JQJapan Super Quartz: 1 patents #22 of 36Top 65%
KEKeihin: 1 patents #237 of 596Top 40%
Nintendo Co.: 1 patents #886 of 1,476Top 65%
FCFuji Electric Co.: 1 patents #1,387 of 2,643Top 55%
HHHitachi High-Technologies: 1 patents #1,617 of 1,200Top 135%
TIToyota Industries: 1 patents #1,298 of 955Top 140%
Nec: 1 patents #7,928 of 14,502Top 55%
ACAkechi Ceramics Co.: 1 patents #14 of 31Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #4,418 of 4,157,543Top 1%
177 Patents All Time
Hideki Watanabe has been granted 177 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in August 2025. Hideki Watanabe ranks #4,418 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.11%). Patent records list Hideki Watanabe in Kumamoto, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2015.peak 141995: 1 patents19951997: 2 patents1998: 3 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 4 patents2002: 3 patents20022003: 3 patents2004: 6 patents2005: 6 patents20052006: 8 patents2007: 5 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 5 patents2011: 6 patents20112012: 10 patents2013: 9 patents2014: 10 patents20142015: 14 patents2016: 7 patents2017: 14 patents20172018: 9 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 7 patents20202021: 6 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 5 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 177 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12388234 Semiconductor laser and method of manufacturing semiconductor laser YASUHIRO KADOWAKI 2025-08-12
12230954 Protection system Hideki Iwaki 2025-02-18
D1047733 Watch case — 2024-10-22
D1030538 Watch case Ryo Amikura, Iichiro Hashimoto 2024-06-11
D1029023 Display screen with graphical user interface Yayoi Konishi, Fuka Matsudaira, Masaki Takano, Masataka Okayama, Jin Shimizu 2024-05-28
11923672 Protection system Hideki Iwaki 2024-03-05
D1015916 Watch case Tomohiro Hamaue, Takao Matsuda 2024-02-27
D986068 Watch case Tomohiro Hamaue 2023-05-16
D986069 Watch case Yumena Aoki 2023-05-16
11643074 Autonomous driving assistance device Ichiro Yoshida 2023-05-09
11312823 Method for producing polyarylene sulphide resin Masaya Kadoki, Saori Nara, Taku Ibaraki, Satoshi Inoue 2022-04-26 $25,630,000
11271368 Semiconductor laser and electronic apparatus Kota Tokuda, Takayuki Kawasumi 2022-03-08 $547,000
D934699 Watch case Takao Matsuda 2021-11-02
11139133 Contact device, electromagnetic relay and electrical device Ryosuke Ozaki, Shinya Kimoto, Kazuhiro Kodama, Seiya SAKAGUCHI, Yasutaka Hieda +1 more 2021-10-05
11137001 Hydraulic drive apparatus Hideki Tanaka, Isamu Yoshimura, Tomohide Hattori, Mariko Ogata, Tadashi Anada 2021-10-05
D924077 Watch case Takafumi Suzuki, Takayasu Akagi, Rei Morisawa 2021-07-06
11008365 Polypeptide exhibiting affinity to antibodies forming non-native three-dimensional structure Shinya Honda 2021-05-18
10941179 Method for suppressing aggregation of polypeptide Yukako Senga, Shinya Honda 2021-03-09
10814499 Actuator device and control method Hideki Tanaka, Mariko Ogata, Isamu Yoshimura, Tomohide Hattori 2020-10-27
10792860 Stereolithographic object, product, and method of manufacturing product Tomomasa Watanabe 2020-10-06 $692,000
10753503 Solenoid valve for a fuel system Jens Ramler, Felix Mayer, Hiroyuki Oka 2020-08-25
10686291 Semiconductor light emitting element and semiconductor light emitting element assembly Katsunori Yanashima, Rintaro Koda, Moe Takeo, Nobukata Okano 2020-06-16 $812,000
10655556 Fuel injection device Takumi Nonaka 2020-05-19
10627872 Hinge, stand device, and electronic apparatus Kouichi Shinotou, Tadanori Tachikawa 2020-04-21
10624008 Determination of waveform software corresponding to narrowest bandwidth at frequency within range of frequencies in which field intensity is below threshold Takashi Takeuchi, Atsushi Honda 2020-04-14

Frequent Collaborators

Masaru Kuramoto18 shared
Takumi Nonaka15 shared
Takao Miyajima15 shared
Hiroyuki Yokoyama13 shared
Tomoyuki Oki12 shared
Rintaro Koda11 shared

Nearby-Ranked Inventors

Yi Zhang177
Josef Heuger177
Adrien LaVoie177
Takashi Tamura177
Frederick L. Schmitt177
Kunpeng Liu177
Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner177
Hongseok Lee177
Marcos Silva Kondrad177