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Shigeru Imura — 7 Patents

Sony: 7 patents #6,060 of 25,231Top 25%
Tokyo, JP: #20,807 of 90,295 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Shigeru Imura has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in May 2011. Shigeru Imura ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Shigeru Imura in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1991.peak 11991: 1 patents19911995: 1 patents19951998: 1 patents19982003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents20072011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7949881 Mobil terminal device, personal identification number verification program, and method of verifying personal identification number 2011-05-24 $246,000
7286852 Subscriber identity module and method of preventing access thereto, and mobile communication terminal device 2007-10-23 $992,000
6771955 Function limiting method for telephone communication terminal, telephone communication method, telephone communication terminal and repeating center equipment Masaru Sanpei 2004-08-03 $588,000
6513719 Card-shaped semiconductor storage device and operation setting method of the same 2003-02-04 $413,000
5732349 System and method for controlling a portable telephone according to discriminated area code Masaru Sanpei 1998-03-24 $565,000
5463210 IC card reader 1995-10-31 $181,000
5031181 Error correction processing apparatus Yoichiro Sako, Takeshi Fukami 1991-07-09 $915,000