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Isao Hirota — 111 Patents

Sony: 72 patents #237 of 25,231Top 1%
TSTochigi Fuji Sangyo: 15 patents #3 of 99Top 4%
GLGkn Automotive Limited: 12 patents #7 of 329Top 3%
GKGkn Driveline Torque Technology Kk: 7 patents #1 of 44Top 3%
GJGkn Driveline Japan: 4 patents #2 of 25Top 8%
SMSuzuki Motor: 1 patents #523 of 1,209Top 45%
Tochigi, JP: #12 of 2,789 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #11,724 of 4,157,543Top 1%
111 Patents All Time
Isao Hirota has been granted 111 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2025. Isao Hirota ranks #11,724 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.28%). Patent records list Isao Hirota in Tochigi, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 111 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12385557 Differential apparatus Noboru Uchida, Yousuke Kawai, Daisuke Umetsu, Koji Takahashi, Koki Yamamoto +1 more 2025-08-12
12317617 Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment 2025-05-27
12139118 Safe parking system Takahiro Nagaoka 2024-11-12
12133007 Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus Sozo Yokogawa 2024-10-29 $836,000
11940015 Power transmission device Masato Horiguchi, Manabu Endou 2024-03-26
11879533 Differential device Manabu Endou, Masato Horiguchi 2024-01-23
11835122 Final drive Shungo Numabe, Hiromichi Fukuda 2023-12-05
11796044 Final drive gear device capable of temporarily effecting differential motion Noboru Higano, Manabu Endou, Kazuhiro Ohashi, Shungo Numabe 2023-10-24
11796043 Differential device Kazutaka Kawata 2023-10-24
11731506 Driving system of electric vehicle Kazutaka Kawata 2023-08-22
11728357 Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment 2023-08-15 $600,000
11711629 Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus Sozo Yokogawa 2023-07-25 $866,000
11649885 Differential apparatus Noboru Higano, Yousuke Kawai 2023-05-16
11402006 Differential device Manabu Endou, Masato Horiguchi 2022-08-02
11309284 Solid-state image capturing apparatus and electronic device for acquiring a normal image and a narrow band image Taro Sugizaki 2022-04-19 $601,000
11252360 Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus Sozo Yokogawa 2022-02-15 $787,000
11140342 Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus Sozo Yokogawa 2021-10-05 $1,526,000
11050955 Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus Yorito Sakano, Motonobu Torii, Masaaki Takizawa, Junichiro Azami, Motohashi Yuichi +1 more 2021-06-29 $1,618,000
11006059 Imaging device, driving method, and electronic apparatus 2021-05-11 $1,061,000
10781904 Differential apparatus Yousuke Kawai, Noboru Higano, Kazutaka Kawata 2020-09-22
10728477 Solid-state image pickup device and camera system 2020-07-28 $873,000
10704612 Cam mechanism and clutch device with the same Manabu Endou, Atsushi Maruyama 2020-07-07
10674100 Imaging device, driving method, and electronic apparatus 2020-06-02 $486,000
10594961 Generation of pixel signal with a high dynamic range and generation of phase difference information Masao Matsumura 2020-03-17 $634,000
10554874 Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment 2020-02-04 $972,000