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Kazuto Kimura — 9 Patents

Sony: 6 patents #6,820 of 25,231Top 30%
OCOptoelectronics Co.: 2 patents #18 of 61Top 30%
OBOpticon Sensors Europe B.V.: 1 patents #4 of 12Top 35%
Saitama, JP: #1,656 of 10,685 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Kazuto Kimura has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2016. Kazuto Kimura ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Kazuto Kimura in Saitama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1999.peak 21999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents20002012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9361504 Optical information reading device, optical information reading method, computer-readable program and recording medium Hiroshi Hayakawa 2016-06-07
9262665 Decoding method and decoding processing device You Tanaka 2016-02-16
9158955 Code symbol reading apparatus, code symbol reading method and medium Zhihui Duan 2015-10-13
8619017 Display device and display control method Kaoru Yanamoto, Hiroaki Yasunaga, Yasushi Ito 2013-12-31 $123,000
8400392 Apparatus and method for controlling backlight and liquid crystal display Masatake Hayashi, Tomio Aoki, Yoshihiro Katsu, Mitsuyasu Asano 2013-03-19 $155,000
8264447 Display apparatus and method for controlling a backlight with multiple light sources of a display unit Shozo Masuda, Masatake Hayashi 2012-09-11 $98,000
6094183 Plasma addressed liquid crystal display device Shoichi Tanamachi 2000-07-25 $3,180,000
5997379 Method of manufacturing plasma addressed liquid crystal display 1999-12-07 $699,000
5886467 Plasma addressed liquid crystal display device 1999-03-23 $583,000