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Minoru Kikuchi — 32 Patents

Sony: 17 patents #2,471 of 25,231Top 10%
MCMitsubishi Gas Chemical Company: 7 patents #273 of 1,727Top 20%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 3 patents #8,069 of 21,451Top 40%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 2 patents #9,741 of 21,551Top 50%
SISumitomo Rubber Industries: 1 patents #1,096 of 1,637Top 70%
KCKao Soap Co.: 1 patents #82 of 203Top 45%
DEDexerials: 1 patents #248 of 387Top 65%
TATaisei: 1 patents #56 of 224Top 25%
Tokyo, JP: #4,056 of 90,295 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Minoru Kikuchi has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in May 2025. Minoru Kikuchi ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Minoru Kikuchi in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 51980: 2 patents19801984: 1 patents1991: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941999: 1 patents2000: 2 patents2001: 5 patents20012005: 2 patents2006: 1 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212024: 2 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12308061 Optical recording medium Yoko Sekiguchi 2025-05-20
12119034 Method of producing multilayer optical recording medium and device for producing multilayer optical recording medium Takeshi Yoshida 2024-10-15 $654,000
12112781 Optical recording medium substrate, optical recording medium, and method of manufacturing optical recording medium substrate Hiroshi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Minoru Matsuura 2024-10-08 $891,000
10950269 Optical recording medium and method for manufacturing the same Akio Koshita 2021-03-16 $1,352,000
9552839 Optical recording medium and manufacturing method of the same Takeshi Yoshida, Akio Koshita 2017-01-24 $569,000
9260563 Process for production of polyamide Katsumi Shinohara 2016-02-16
8985987 Apparatus for producing thermoplastic resin pellets Katsumi Shinohara, Tomomichi Kanda, Hideyuki Kurose 2015-03-24
8895690 Copolymerized polyamide resin, method for producing same, resin composition, and molded article formed from the copolymerized polyamide resin or the resin composition Tomomichi Kanda, Katsumi Shinohara, Hideyuki Kurose 2014-11-25
8709569 Optical recording medium, and method for producing optical recording medium Hiroyuki Kawasaki, Takashi Ohgi, Yoshiaki Nakata 2014-04-29 $171,000
8297832 Process for producing polyamide Hideyuki Kurose, Katsumi Shinohara, Tomomichi Kanda 2012-10-30
8246875 Process and apparatus for producing thermoplastic resin pellets Katsumi Shinohara, Tomomichi Kanda, Hideyuki Kurose 2012-08-21
7807742 Polyamide resin composition Kazumi Tanaka 2010-10-05 $521,000
7536035 Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method 2009-05-19
7430304 Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method 2008-09-30
7224665 Optical recording medium its manufacturing method and injection molding apparatus Akio Koshita, Jun Nakano 2007-05-29 $950,000
7213253 Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same Jun Nakano 2007-05-01 $1,058,000
7138482 Production method of polyamide Kazumi Tanaka, Hideyuki Kurose, Takatoshi Shida 2006-11-21 $751,000
6938267 Optical disc and fabrication method thereof Yoshio Shirai, Mitsuhiro Abe, Toru Abiko 2005-08-30 $693,000
6889381 Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same Jun Nakano 2005-05-03 $502,000
6312781 Disc-shaped recording medium with a protective film 2001-11-06 $360,000
6298143 Moving target detecting system and moving target detecting method Yasuhiro Taniguchi 2001-10-02
6269070 Optical disc having specified track pitch, push-pull signal, and cross-track signal Yoshihiro Akimoto, Fuminori Takase, Masaki Kagawa, Nobuhiro Saito 2001-07-31 $1,128,000
6245404 Optical Disc Nobuhiro Saito, Yoshihiro Akimoto, Fuminori Takase 2001-06-12 $1,063,000
6210770 Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same Yoshihiro Akimoto, Fuminori Takase, Nobuhiro Saito, Noriko Kikuchi 2001-04-03 $2,481,000
6077349 Method and apparatus for manufacturing disc-shaped recording medium 2000-06-20 $2,446,000