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Masayoshi Abe — 68 Patents

Sony: 50 patents #467 of 25,231Top 2%
SLSemiconductor Energy Laboratory: 17 patents #412 of 1,113Top 40%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 4 patents #6,367 of 21,551Top 30%
Tdk: 3 patents #1,522 of 3,796Top 45%
TCToyo Tire & Rubber Co.: 2 patents #160 of 499Top 35%
OLOlympus: 1 patents #2,078 of 3,097Top 70%
Panasonic: 1 patents #13,316 of 21,108Top 65%
OMOmron: 1 patents #1,808 of 3,089Top 60%
Tokyo, JP: #1,028 of 90,295 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #30,786 of 4,157,543Top 1%
68 Patents All Time
Masayoshi Abe has been granted 68 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in September 2024. Masayoshi Abe ranks #30,786 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.74%). Patent records list Masayoshi Abe in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2004.peak 91988: 2 patents19881989: 5 patents1990: 1 patents1991: 3 patents19911992: 3 patents1994: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents2004: 9 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 2 patents2013: 1 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 5 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 68 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12100901 Antenna and antenna arrangement Mohamed Ratni 2024-09-24 $996,000
11562197 Non-contact communication medium and recording medium cartridge Hiroaki Nakano, Eiji Nakashio, Kazuo Anno, Takanobu Iwama, Shinya Tochikubo +2 more 2023-01-24 $745,000
11393506 Cartridge memory Eiji Nakashio, Kazuo Anno, Takanobu Iwama, Shinya Tochikubo, Naohiro Adachi +1 more 2022-07-19 $504,000
11373681 Cartridge memory used for tape cartridge, tape cartridge, data management system, and cartridge memory used for recording medium cartridge Shinya Tochikubo, Takanobu Iwama, Kazuo Anno, Eiji Nakashio, Naohiro Adachi +2 more 2022-06-28 $558,000
11331793 Device for outputting holding detection results Toshihiro Moriya, Yumi Tsutsumi, Haruna Shimakawa, Chisato Saito, Yukihisa Karako 2022-05-17 $131,000
11328742 Cartridge memory having a plurality of memory banks , tape cartridge, and recording and reproducing system Naohiro Adachi, Eiji Nakashio, Kazuo Anno, Shinya Tochikubo, Minoru Yamaga +1 more 2022-05-10 $593,000
11201407 Antenna apparatus and communication apparatus Takayuki Hirabayashi, Osamu Kozakai, Hiroaki Nakano, Uichiro Omae 2021-12-14 $1,962,000
11145329 Recording medium cartridge and drive device Kazuo Anno, Eiji Nakashio, Takanobu Iwama, Naohiro Adachi, Shinya Tochikubo 2021-10-12 $1,782,000
10984819 Magnetic tape recording device including cartridge memory having a plurality of memory banks Naohiro Adachi, Eiji Nakashio, Kazuo Anno, Shinya Tochikubo, Minoru Yamaga +1 more 2021-04-20 $1,774,000
10971186 Cartridge memory, recording medium cartridge, and method of producing the same Eiji Nakashio, Kazuo Anno, Takanobu Iwama, Shinya Tochikubo, Naohiro Adachi +1 more 2021-04-06 $1,807,000
10951443 Communication device and communication method Hiroaki Nakano, Uichiro Omae, Hiroaki Fujita 2021-03-16 $1,352,000
10832117 Antenna Mohamed Ratni, Osamu Kozakai 2020-11-10 $1,258,000
10523061 Power receiving device, power feeding device, and electronic apparatus Hiroaki Nakano, Ken Matsui, Kazukuni Takanohashi, Tomonori Tsuchiyama, Osamu Kozakai 2019-12-31 $736,000
10256869 Communication apparatus and communication method Hiroaki Nakano, Hiroaki Fujita, Hiroshi Matsui 2019-04-09 $582,000
10243767 Communication device and communication method Hiroaki Nakano, Uichiro Omae, Hiroaki Fujita 2019-03-26 $678,000
10211887 Receiver and communication system Hiroaki Nakano, Uichiro Omae, Hiroaki Fujita, Ken Matsui 2019-02-19 $663,000
10193598 Communication apparatus, power receiving apparatus, and antenna switching method Ken Matsui, Osamu Kozakai, Hirofumi Kawamura, Hiroaki Fujita, Takashi Miyamoto 2019-01-29 $608,000
8346834 Information processing device and information processing method Anas bin Muhamad Bostaman, Hideki Yokoshima, Yuya Kondo, Yukitoshi Sanada 2013-01-01
7974363 Receiver, receiving method, filter circuit, and control method Hideki Yokoshima, Yuya Kondo, Yukitoshi Sanada 2011-07-05 $316,000
7957476 Wireless communicaton apparatus Yukitoshi Sanada, Hideki Yokoshima, Yuya Kondo, Mamiko Inamori, Kazuyuki Saijo 2011-06-07 $204,000
7835433 Multiple receiving devices determining the sampling rate for received signals using a plurality of sampling rates Yukitoshi Sanada, Hideki Yokoshima, Yuya Kondo, Mario Tokoro 2010-11-16 $474,000
7835423 Receiving device to determine the sampling rate for a received signal using a plurality of sampling rates Yukitoshi Sanada, Hideki Yokoshima, Yuya Kondo 2010-11-16 $474,000
7697779 Ultrasonic image processing apparatus Junichi Ichikawa 2010-04-13
7675143 Semiconductor element, semiconductor device and mounting board Takahide Kadoyama, Atsushi Kamo, Takaaki Yamada, Chihiro Arai 2010-03-09 $747,000
7567488 Dropout detection circuit and optical disc apparatus Teruhiko Izumi, Katsumi Morita 2009-07-28 $418,000