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Junichi Sato — 256 Patents

Sony: 50 patents #467 of 25,231Top 2%
JNJnc: 23 patents #7 of 413Top 2%
Micron: 15 patents #1,126 of 6,374Top 20%
Casio Computer Co.: 14 patents #155 of 1,970Top 8%
SCSumitomo Chemical: 13 patents #331 of 4,033Top 9%
Panasonic: 11 patents #2,338 of 21,108Top 15%
Tdk: 11 patents #551 of 3,796Top 15%
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha: 8 patents #2,076 of 10,731Top 20%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 8 patents #3,473 of 21,551Top 20%
RERenesas Electronics: 7 patents #554 of 4,529Top 15%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 7 patents #4,328 of 21,451Top 25%
Toshiba Memory: 6 patents #309 of 1,971Top 20%
SCShinsei Industries Co.: 5 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
Fujitsu Limited: 5 patents #6,029 of 24,456Top 25%
Kioxia: 5 patents #270 of 1,813Top 15%
Canon: 4 patents #10,169 of 19,416Top 55%
Pioneer: 3 patents #574 of 1,730Top 35%
FAFanuc: 3 patents #813 of 1,735Top 50%
TPTohoku Pioneer: 3 patents #81 of 312Top 30%
YJYahoo Japan: 3 patents #23 of 217Top 15%
Nec: 3 patents #4,217 of 14,502Top 30%
NPNec Platforms: 3 patents #39 of 361Top 15%
Honda Motor Co.: 3 patents #6,619 of 21,052Top 35%
DCDaido Kogyo Co.: 3 patents #6 of 94Top 7%
NCNippon Thermostat Co.: 3 patents #13 of 67Top 20%
ACAnden Co.: 2 patents #33 of 95Top 35%
TLTokyo Electron Limited: 2 patents #2,602 of 5,567Top 50%
LGLodestar Licensing Group: 2 patents #11 of 80Top 15%
FLFujitsu Kasei Limited: 2 patents #1 of 32Top 4%
ACAlps Electric Co.: 2 patents #822 of 2,177Top 40%
Comcast: 2 patents #1,655 of 4,447Top 40%
NENec Electronics: 2 patents #384 of 1,789Top 25%
MCMurata Manufacturing Co.: 2 patents #2,631 of 5,295Top 50%
Denso: 2 patents #4,986 of 11,792Top 45%
TMToshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing: 2 patents #16 of 46Top 35%
SCShowa Aluminum Can: 1 patents #13 of 24Top 55%
AHAsahi Group Holdings: 1 patents #28 of 107Top 30%
CKCalsonic Kansei: 1 patents #307 of 675Top 50%
CHChisso: 1 patents #468 of 833Top 60%
ALAlpha: 1 patents #75 of 110Top 70%
HCHitachi Cable: 1 patents #530 of 1,086Top 50%
HMHitachi Maxell: 1 patents #659 of 1,211Top 55%
HCHowa Textile Industry Co.: 1 patents #5 of 30Top 20%
ICIshikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co.: 1 patents #251 of 611Top 45%
JLJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited: 1 patents #440 of 728Top 65%
JCJidosha Denki Kogyo Co.: 1 patents #65 of 121Top 55%
Kawasaki: 1 patents #1,551 of 2,943Top 55%
MCMatushita Electric Industrial Co.: 1 patents #3 of 106Top 3%
NINec Infrontia: 1 patents #93 of 197Top 50%
NMNidec Techno Motor: 1 patents #7 of 16Top 45%
NKNihon Kohden: 1 patents #238 of 467Top 55%
NLNippon Mining Company Limited: 1 patents #97 of 262Top 40%
NSNippon Steel: 1 patents #2,111 of 4,423Top 50%
STSandisk Technologies: 1 patents #1,686 of 2,594Top 65%
SKShowa Denko K.K.: 1 patents #940 of 1,736Top 55%
SCSs Pharmaceutical Co.: 1 patents #77 of 124Top 65%
TWThe Japan Steel Works: 1 patents #307 of 643Top 50%
KCKansai Electric Power Co.: 1 patents #210 of 506Top 45%
TCToko Co.: 1 patents #92 of 196Top 50%
TCToyoda Gosei Co.: 1 patents #1,271 of 2,296Top 60%
Hitachi: 1 patents #17,777 of 28,497Top 65%
Tokyo, JP: #27 of 90,295 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #1,889 of 4,157,543Top 1%
256 Patents All Time
Junichi Sato has been granted 256 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2025. Junichi Sato ranks #1,889 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.05%). Patent records list Junichi Sato in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2008.peak 121995: 7 patents19951996: 8 patents1997: 4 patents1998: 9 patents19981999: 9 patents2001: 5 patents2002: 9 patents20022003: 5 patents2004: 3 patents2005: 6 patents20052006: 6 patents2007: 5 patents2008: 12 patents20082009: 5 patents2010: 7 patents2011: 7 patents20112012: 10 patents2013: 8 patents2014: 8 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 8 patents2017: 9 patents20172018: 10 patents2019: 9 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 12 patents2022: 8 patents2023: 11 patents20232024: 6 patents2025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 256 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12509100 Vehicle traveling performance control function simulation apparatus Toru Sakurai, Shuhei Ogawa, Yukinobu Sakata, Kenji Tanaka 2025-12-30
12502768 Robot and hand orientation adjustment method Ippei Shimizu, Hirotoshi Okada, Daisuke YAMANAKA, Taizo Abe 2025-12-23
12504677 Control of display device for autonomous vehicle 2025-12-23
12485534 Robot and substrate orientation examination method Ippei Shimizu, Hirotoshi Okada, Daisuke YAMANAKA, Taizo Abe 2025-12-02
12449990 Adjusting trim settings to improve memory performance or reliability 2025-10-21
12371279 Robot and hand orientation adjustment method Ippei Shimizu, Hiroyuki Okada, Daisuke YAMANAKA, Takahiro Abe 2025-07-29
12373426 Search sentence generation system and search sentence generation method Takuo HENMI 2025-07-29
12320010 Alloy member and method for hardening surface thereof Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Shouta NAGASAWA, Kenichi Inoue, Chinfu LIU, Wuchien LIU +2 more 2025-06-03
12292843 Transferring data to a memory device based on importance Robert Richard Noel Bielby 2025-05-06
12159677 Memory device which generates operation voltages in parallel with reception of an address Akio SUGAHARA, Takaya HANDA, Ryosuke ISOMURA, Kazuto UEHARA, Norichika ASAOKA +5 more 2024-12-03
12111777 Multiple pin configurations of memory devices 2024-10-08 $26,633,000
12045565 Information provision system and information provision method Takuo HENMI 2024-07-23
11972907 Solid electrolytic capacitor Satoshi Tani, Kenichi Oshiumi, Kazutoyo Horio, Keiji Yoshida 2024-04-30
11900811 Crowdsourcing road conditions from abnormal vehicle events 2024-02-13
11869597 Semiconductor storage device including a voltage generator for applying first and second intermediate voltages to an adjacent word line in a program operation Takeshi Nakano, Yuzuru Shibazaki, Hideyuki Kataoka, Hiroki Date 2024-01-09
11842065 Controlling firmware storage density based on temperature detection 2023-12-12
11776183 Generation device, generation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium Kota TSUBOUCHI, Teruhiko TERAOKA, Hidehito Gomi 2023-10-03
11763831 Output apparatus, output method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium Kota TSUBOUCHI, Teruhiko TERAOKA, Hidehito Gomi 2023-09-19
11756353 Downloading system memory data in response to event detection 2023-09-12
11749270 Output apparatus, output method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium Kota TSUBOUCHI, Teruhiko TERAOKA, Hidehito Gomi 2023-09-05
D997871 Capacitor Yasuhiro Tamatani, Satoshi Tani, Kenichi Oshiumi, Kazutoyo Horio, Keiji Yoshida 2023-09-05
11738804 Training a vehicle to accommodate a driver 2023-08-29 $10,098,000
11705210 Memory device which generates operation voltages in parallel with reception of an address Akio SUGAHARA, Takaya HANDA, Ryosuke ISOMURA, Kazuto UEHARA, Norichika ASAOKA +5 more 2023-07-18
11670123 Automatic collection of autonomous vehicle logging data 2023-06-06 $9,972,000
11650915 Temperature-based data storage processing 2023-05-16 $14,212,000