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Shin Kimura — 15 Patents

Sony: 10 patents #4,425 of 25,231Top 20%
JSJsr: 2 patents #443 of 1,137Top 40%
NSNational Institute For Materials Science: 1 patents #361 of 901Top 45%
TOTok: 1 patents #6 of 16Top 40%
SESega Enterprises: 1 patents #359 of 515Top 70%
Tsukuba, JP: #227 of 2,818 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Shin Kimura has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in April 2025. Shin Kimura ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Shin Kimura in Tsukuba, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2010.peak 31998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012008: 1 patents2010: 3 patents20102013: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12272826 Porous carbon structure, manufacturing method therefor, positive electrode material using same, and battery using same Eiki Yasukawa, Takashi Kameda, Shoichi Matsuda, Shoji Yamaguchi, Kimihiko Ito +1 more 2025-04-08
11984133 Operation device Takashi Enokihara, Kojiro Matsuyama, Takafumi Ogura, Tetsuro Horikawa, Nobuyuki Kihara 2024-05-14 $675,000
11813518 Information processing system, controller apparatus, information processing apparatus, and program Kiyotaka Ishikawa, Kazuyoshi Enomoto, Takeshi Igarashi, Tsubasa Umeki, Masaaki Tonogai +2 more 2023-11-14 $786,000
11714488 Controller apparatus, method of controlling controller apparatus, and program Kiyotaka Ishikawa, Masaaki Tonogai, Takuro Sawada, Kazuyoshi Enomoto 2023-08-01 $982,000
11429187 Controller apparatus, control method thereof, and program Kiyotaka Ishikawa, Kazuyoshi Enomoto, Masaaki Tonogai, Takuro Sawada 2022-08-30 $617,000
11181228 Rod fixing device, and telescopic rod unit employing same Junichiro Akiba 2021-11-23
8606089 Reproduction controller, and reproduction controlling method and program Takayuki Nakagawa 2013-12-10 $112,000
7769920 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program and recording medium used therewith Kazuhisa Tsuchiya, Nobuhiro Sakai, Kazuhiko Watanabe 2010-08-03 $338,000
7664373 Program, data processing method, and system of same 2010-02-16 $547,000
7647455 Information processing apparatus and method, program, and program recording medium 2010-01-12 $1,011,000
7373439 System method using material exchange format (MXF) converting program for audio and video data files having routines that generates attribute data from audio and video data file 2008-05-13 $933,000
6312769 Liquid crystal alignment layer, production method for the same, and liquid crystal display device comprising the same Hiroyuki Hiraoka, Yasumasa Takeuchi, Yasuo Matsuki, Toshihiro Ogawa, Masayuki Kimura 2001-11-06
6224788 Liquid crystal aligning agent and process for producing liquid crystal alignment film using the same Toshihiro Ogawa, Shoichi Nakata, Yutaka Makita, Masayuki Kimura, Yasumasa Takeuchi +1 more 2001-05-01
5905604 Cassette transfer mechanism for use in cassette library system Yasuaki Kano, Yoshitsugu Taki, Toshiya Kurokawa, Taketoshi Yamagishi, Kyoichi Isomura 1999-05-18 $772,000
5767861 Processing apparatus and method for displaying a moving figure constrained to provide appearance of fluid motion 1998-06-16