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Seishin Asato — 7 Patents

Sony: 7 patents #6,060 of 25,231Top 25%
Chiba, JP: #1,248 of 6,266 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Seishin Asato has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in September 2011. Seishin Asato ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Seishin Asato in Chiba, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 22004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8023018 Drive method for solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus Kazuhide Yokota, Hisashi Kurebayashi, Kenji Tanaka, Akira Matsui, Yutaka Yoneda +2 more 2011-09-20 $139,000
7839961 Communication timing changing method and device Akira Matsui, Naoki Hayashi, Tomoki Numata 2010-11-23 $331,000
7570290 Drive method for solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus Kazuhide Yokota, Hisashi Kurebayashi, Kenji Tanaka, Akira Matsui, Yutaka Yoneda +2 more 2009-08-04 $1,791,000
7479988 Video camera apparatus using an image sensor Masatoshi Sase, Hidehiko Teshirogi 2009-01-20 $958,000
7053934 Video camera apparatus Masatoshi Sase, Hidehiko Teshirogi 2006-05-30 $693,000
6970191 Video camera apparatus Masatoshi Sase, Hidehiko Teshirogi 2005-11-29 $435,000
6798448 Imaging apparatus Chihiro Motono, Koji Okumoto, Toshitaka Yoshihiro, Masaya Nakatani, Masatoshi Sase +1 more 2004-09-28 $485,000