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Nobuo Kitamura — 8 Patents

Sony: 4 patents #9,005 of 25,231Top 40%
Kyocera: 2 patents #1,365 of 3,732Top 40%
MKMitsui Kinzoku Kogyo: 1 patents #47 of 99Top 50%
Panasonic: 1 patents #13,316 of 21,108Top 65%
Tokyo, JP: #18,804 of 90,295 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Nobuo Kitamura has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in March 2022. Nobuo Kitamura ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Nobuo Kitamura in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21986: 1 patents19861987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents19881992: 1 patents19922010: 1 patents20102018: 1 patents20182022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11269155 Imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus manufacturing method and moving body Takahiro Okada 2022-03-08
10114191 Lens unit, vehicle-mounted camera, and imaging device 2018-10-30
7778678 Radio control device Hikaru Fujiwara, Atsushi Murase 2010-08-17 $90,000
5096546 Process for treating surface of copper foil Makoto Fujiki, Yukio Kodama, Katsuhiro Yoshimura 1992-03-17 $39,000
4733023 Coordinate position digitizing system for determining position of a pick-up element relative to a plate in horizontal and vertical directions employing sequential switching of vertical and horizontal conductors Hideshi Tamaru, Akio Sakano, Kimiyoshi Yoshida, Kunio Shikakura 1988-03-22 $487,000
4728944 Coordinate position digitizing system Hideshi Tamaru, Kunio Shikakura, Kimiyoshi Yoshida, Akio Sakano 1988-03-01 $267,000
4683491 Display system comprising a plurality of display cells arranged in an X-Y matrix and a plurality of horizontal-extending blinds disposed adjacent the upper edges of the display cells in the rows of the matrix Satoshi Shimada, Kunio Shikakura, Namio Maeda 1987-07-28 $554,000
4571454 Coordinate position digitizing system Hideshi Tamaru, Kunio Shikakura, Kimiyoshi Yoshida, Akio Sakano 1986-02-18 $301,000