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Minoru Morio — 11 Patents

Sony: 10 patents #4,425 of 25,231Top 20%
Tokyo, JP: #14,217 of 90,295 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Minoru Morio has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in September 2016. Minoru Morio ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Minoru Morio in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1981.peak 21980: 1 patents19801981: 2 patents19811984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents19851994: 1 patents19942002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents20042011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9454949 Information distributing system, information processing terminal device, information center, and information distributing method Akira Tange 2016-09-27 $685,000
8589506 Information distributing system, information processing terminal device, information center, and information distributing method Akira Tange 2013-11-19 $119,000
8024649 Information distributing system, information processing terminal device, information center, and information distributing method Akira Tange 2011-09-20 $139,000
6825886 Picture signal processing method and apparatus Hiroshi Kobayashi, Motoki Kato, Nobuhiro Igi, Koji Obata 2004-11-30 $653,000
6466625 Picture signal processing method and apparatus Hiroshi Kobayashi, Motoki Kato, Nobuhiro Igi, Koji Obata 2002-10-15 $555,000
5307158 Video camera Masaaki Tsuruta, Ryuji Shiono 1994-04-26 $163,000
4542419 Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing an information signal comprising a video signal and audio signal Kenji Nakano, Hisayoshi Moriwaki 1985-09-17 $172,000
4470076 Color video still picture playback device Masaaki Arai, Masahiro Kanbara 1984-09-04 $280,000
4283736 Video signal reproducing apparatus for converting a video signal from a first format to a second format Tadahiko Nakamura, Masahiro Kambara, Yukio Kubota 1981-08-11 $356,000
4268875 Avoidance of disturbance of horizontal sync signals in video signal reproduced at other than standard tape speed Masahiro Kambara, Yukio Kubota, Keitaro Yamashita 1981-05-19 $244,000
4189758 Apparatus for controlling the scanning path of a rotary transducer Yukio Kubota, Hidehiko Okada 1980-02-19