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Naoki Inoue — 147 Patents

Sony: 28 patents #1,301 of 25,231Top 6%
Honda Motor Co.: 15 patents #1,078 of 21,052Top 6%
Canon: 13 patents #5,104 of 19,416Top 30%
Rohm Co.: 10 patents #296 of 2,292Top 15%
ABAsm Ip Holding B.V.: 9 patents #97 of 620Top 20%
ANAnritsu: 8 patents #25 of 633Top 4%
FUFujifilm: 8 patents #1,085 of 4,519Top 25%
FCFunai Electric Co.: 7 patents #142 of 943Top 20%
Mitsubishi Electric: 7 patents #4,301 of 25,717Top 20%
OCOsaka Gas Co.: 6 patents #29 of 689Top 5%
Hitachi: 5 patents #7,560 of 28,497Top 30%
Kubota: 4 patents #505 of 2,059Top 25%
NGNitta Gelatin: 4 patents #4 of 62Top 7%
TATamura: 4 patents #33 of 193Top 20%
Brother Kogyo: 3 patents #1,626 of 2,767Top 60%
AMAkashic Memories: 2 patents #2 of 23Top 9%
KCKm Biologics Co.: 2 patents #17 of 95Top 20%
KSKb Seiren: 2 patents #1 of 15Top 7%
NCNippon Shinyaku Co.: 1 patents #122 of 237Top 55%
NSNippon Steel: 1 patents #2,111 of 4,423Top 50%
AKAsahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #556 of 1,220Top 50%
GIGs Yuasa International: 1 patents #283 of 491Top 60%
HVHitachi Vantara: 1 patents #77 of 254Top 35%
SASanden: 1 patents #336 of 631Top 55%
SCSft Laboratory Co.: 1 patents #5 of 16Top 35%
STStormedia: 1 patents #10 of 23Top 45%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 1 patents #13,249 of 21,551Top 65%
AEAsahi Kasei E-Materials: 1 patents #57 of 141Top 45%
AKAsm Genitech Korea: 1 patents #24 of 27Top 90%
KKKirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #149 of 379Top 40%
MCMitsubishi Electric Semiconductor Software Co.: 1 patents #33 of 117Top 30%
Yokohama, JP: #130 of 49,234 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #6,491 of 4,157,543Top 1%
147 Patents All Time
Naoki Inoue has been granted 147 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in September 2025. Naoki Inoue ranks #6,491 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.16%). Patent records list Naoki Inoue in Yokohama, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 147 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12431987 Mobile terminal testing device and method for displaying EVM measurement result of SRS using same 2025-09-30
12431355 Method and system for forming patterned features on a surface of a substrate using a plasma-enhanced cyclical deposition process Seunghyun Lee, YeaHyun Gu, Hyunchul Kim 2025-09-30
12381237 Fuel cell stack Yoichi Fukui, Yuta Ikeda 2025-08-05
12339600 Image forming apparatus, component unit of the image forming apparatus, and processing apparatus for the component unit Takayuki Namiki 2025-06-24
12322591 Thin film deposition process 2025-06-03
12307800 Inter-word score calculation apparatus, question and answer extraction system and inter-word score calculation method Sota Sato, Toru SHIMOTORI 2025-05-20
12290560 Vaccine for preventing or treating congenital infection with cytomegalovirus Masaharu Torikai, Hiroaki Mori, Tomohiro Nishimura, Takahiro Katayama, Kohsuke Hazeyama +2 more 2025-05-06
12261648 Mobile terminal test device and parameter setting method thereof 2025-03-25
12220457 Modified CMV gB protein and CMV vaccine including same Masaharu Torikai, Hiroaki Mori, Tomohiro Nishimura, Miyuki Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Shimizu +2 more 2025-02-11
12177374 Mobile terminal test device and port connection method thereof 2024-12-24
12074022 Method and system for forming patterned structures using multiple patterning process Ryu Nakano, Shinya Yamada, Mao Tsuchiya 2024-08-27
11960079 Image display device, wire grid polarizing plate, method of manufacturing plate, method of observing wire grid polarizing plate, and method of estimating polarization axis direction of wire grid polarizing plate Masaru Sugiyama, Nao Kitamichi 2024-04-16
11939650 Hot-rolled steel sheet Shohei YABU, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Marina Mori, Genki Abukawa 2024-03-26
11914310 Image forming apparatus, component unit of the image forming apparatus, and processing apparatus for the component unit Takayuki Namiki 2024-02-27
11805825 Fan device, fan-equipped garment, and recording medium Hiroshi Ichigaya, Toru Ichigaya, Yohei Oki, Naokatu Furuya, Yasuhiro KAWAKUBO +1 more 2023-11-07
11722233 Mobile terminal testing apparatus, mobile terminal testing system, and control method for mobile terminal testing apparatus 2023-08-08
11693730 Replaceable unit and apparatus to which the replaceable unit is attached 2023-07-04
11654695 Printing system 2023-05-23
11509405 Mobile terminal testing apparatus, mobile terminal testing system, and control method for mobile terminal testing apparatus 2022-11-22
11480619 Estimation apparatus, estimation method, and computer program 2022-10-25
11444308 Fuel cell stack Yuta Ikeda 2022-09-13 $116,000
11355767 Fuel cell stack Yuta Ikeda, Hideharu Naito, Norihisa Kobayashi, Kimiharu Mizusaki 2022-06-07 $164,000
11281103 Composition for forming upper layer film, pattern forming method, resist pattern, and method for manufacturing electronic device Naoya HATAKEYAMA, Naohiro TANGO, Michihiro SHIRAKAWA, Akiyoshi GOTO 2022-03-22
11254141 Printing system 2022-02-22
11249395 Pattern forming method, method for manufacturing electronic device, laminate film, and composition for forming upper layer film Naohiro TANGO, Michihiro SHIRAKAWA, Akiyoshi GOTO 2022-02-15