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Munetake Ebihara — 37 Patents

Sony: 37 patents #815 of 25,231Top 4%
Tokyo, JP: #3,258 of 90,295 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Munetake Ebihara has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in February 2025. Munetake Ebihara ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Munetake Ebihara in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2009.peak 72004: 1 patents20042007: 3 patents2009: 7 patents20092010: 4 patents2012: 2 patents20122014: 4 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12223145 Movement control apparatus and movable body Toshiaki Nishikawa, Akira Fujisawa 2025-02-11
11445015 Information processing apparatus and method for processing information 2022-09-13 $512,000
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
11069328 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Kimihiko Kogure, Akira Fujisawa, Ken Kobayashi, Tomoko Katsuhara, Tetsuro Goto +1 more 2021-07-20 $969,000
11009986 Sensor and electronic device Tomoki Kawabata, Yasushi Itoshiro, Toshiaki Nishikawa, Akira Fujisawa, Kei Tsukamoto +3 more 2021-05-18 $1,570,000
10706231 Input apparatus and information processing apparatus Toshiaki Kamata, Hideyoshi Wakimoto, Akira Fujisawa, Ichirou Higuchi 2020-07-07 $816,000
10620757 Input device and electrical apparatus Yoshiteru Taka, Takeshi Koizumi, Tomoki Kawabata, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Machiko Endo +3 more 2020-04-14 $581,000
10540034 Input device having optimum portability and electronic apparatus including the same Hiroto Kawaguchi, Manabu Kodate, Sayaka Izumi 2020-01-21 $846,000
10409489 Input apparatus Toshiaki Kamata, Hideyoshi Wakimoto, Akira Fujisawa, Ichirou Higuchi 2019-09-10 $910,000
10020019 Information processing device and information processing method Kenjiro Ueda, Koji Yoshimura, Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi 2018-07-10 $829,000
9911029 Underlay body for acquisition of handwriting information Hiroto Kawaguchi, Manabu Kodate 2018-03-06 $582,000
9886107 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Hiroto Kawaguchi, Manabu Kodate 2018-02-06 $894,000
9811670 Information processing device, information processing method, and program Hiroshi Kuno, Kenjiro Ueda, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura 2017-11-07 $557,000
9311956 Information processing device, information processing method, and program Kenjiro Ueda, Koji Yoshimura, Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi 2016-04-12 $367,000
9053347 Memory device, host device, and memory system Takamichi Hayashi, Hiroshi Kuno 2015-06-09 $488,000
8938073 Information processing device, information processing method, and program Hiroshi Kuno, Kenjiro Ueda, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura 2015-01-20 $752,000
8819406 Information processing device, information processing method, and program Hiroshi Kuno, Kenjiro Ueda, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura 2014-08-26 $146,000
8799604 Data storage apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Kenjiro Ueda, Koji Yoshimura 2014-08-05 $140,000
8782407 Information processing device, information processing method, and program Hiroshi Kuno, Kenjiro Ueda, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura 2014-07-15 $157,000
8634555 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Kenjiro Ueda 2014-01-21 $175,000
8280818 License source component, license destination component, and method thereof Hiroshi Kuno, Keiko Saeki 2012-10-02 $76,000
8108934 Information processing apparatus and method, and a program Kazutaka Mitsuiki, Takuji Shimoda, Nobuhisa Toshitani, Hideyuki Kawashima 2012-01-31 $115,000
7809956 Content-data processing apparatus, content-data processing method, content data management system and content data management method Mitsuru Katsumata 2010-10-05 $326,000
7801873 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, program, and data Manabu Kii, Takamichi Hayashi, Masahiro Shimizu 2010-09-21 $263,000
7788271 Content distribution server, content distribution method, and program Shunichi Soma, Hiroshi Kuno 2010-08-31 $286,000