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Isao Ichimura — 61 Patents

Sony: 61 patents #319 of 25,231Top 2%
Tokyo, JP: #1,300 of 90,295 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
Isao Ichimura has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in March 2021. Isao Ichimura ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list Isao Ichimura in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2012.peak 101990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents1996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 6 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 6 patents20002001: 4 patents2002: 2 patents2003: 4 patents20032004: 4 patents2005: 3 patents2006: 6 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 10 patents2013: 3 patents20132015: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10956547 Biometrics authentication system Kenji Yamamoto, Hideo Sato, Toshio Watanabe, Shinichi Kai, Junji Kajihara +1 more 2021-03-23 $2,208,000
9161432 Circuit board Toshio Watanabe, Tatsuo Maeda, Takuma Nagata 2015-10-13 $495,000
8466475 Light detecting chip and light detecting device provided with light detecting chip Masanobu Yamamoto, Shinichi Kai 2013-06-18 $186,000
8463001 Image pickup apparatus Kengo Hayasaka, Kenji Yamamoto 2013-06-11 $168,000
8451352 Image pickup apparatus Kengo Hayasaka, Kenji Yamamoto, Isao Hirota 2013-05-28 $189,000
8335353 Biometrics authentication system Kenji Yamamoto 2012-12-18 $103,000
8324597 Light detection device Atsushi Fukumoto, Shinichi Kai, Toshio Watanabe, Yuji Segawa 2012-12-04 $67,000
8306287 Biometrics authentication system Junji Kajihara, Kenji Yamamoto, Toshio Watanabe 2012-11-06 $90,000
8305429 Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method Junji Kajihara, Kenji Yamamoto 2012-11-06 $90,000
8237843 Imaging device Kenji Yamamoto, Kengo Hayasaka, Koichiro Kishima 2012-08-07 $102,000
8180119 Imaging apparatus and imaging method Junji Kajihara, Kenji Yamamoto 2012-05-15 $146,000
8170300 Biometric image pickup apparatus Kenji Yamamoto 2012-05-01 $106,000
8130310 Image pickup apparatus Kenji Yamamoto, Shigeatsu Yoshioka 2012-03-06 $269,000
8111595 Optical disk recording and playback apparatus and signal detection method utilizing a differential push-pull method and a phase difference method 2012-02-07 $246,000
8106994 Image pickup apparatus having a microlens array 2012-01-31 $115,000
7842366 Multi-layer optical information recording medium 2010-11-30 $382,000
7550707 Biometrics authentication system with authentication based upon multiple layers Gakuji Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Osato, Toshio Watanabe, Takashi Nakao, Kenji Yamamoto +3 more 2009-06-23 $715,000
7539108 Optical information reproduction apparatus and optical information reproduction method Tsutomu Maruyama 2009-05-26 $759,000
7394049 Optical disk apparatus and pickup unit Takashi Nakao, Shinichi Kai 2008-07-01 $1,801,000
RE40371 Optical disc recording/reproduction apparatus and method Fumisada Maeda, Kenji Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Ohsato, Toshio Watanabe, Akira Suzuki 2008-06-10
7301875 Information recording device and information recording method Tsutomu Maruyama, Yuichi Sabi, Kiyoshi Osato 2007-11-27 $1,576,000
7126899 Optical recording medium processing device and focal point control method thereof Tsutomu Maruyama 2006-10-24 $760,000
7123551 Optical device with optical recording medium having transparent heat radiating layer Yuji Kuroda, Koichiro Kishima, Kiyoshi Osato 2006-10-17 $564,000
7058000 Information recording disc having an anti-reflection layer and information recording/reproducing apparatus Koichiro Kishima, Yuji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Osato 2006-06-06 $759,000
7031233 Optical recording/reproduction device and focal point control method 2006-04-18 $1,052,000