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Shotaro Tada — 12 Patents

Sony: 12 patents #3,704 of 25,231Top 15%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 1 patents #13,249 of 21,551Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Shotaro Tada has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in September 2025. Shotaro Tada ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Shotaro Tada in Tokyo, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2020.peak 31983: 1 patents19832019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 3 patents20212024: 2 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12429668 Lens unit and image observing device Yasutoshi Katsuda, Manabu Ishioka 2025-09-30
12287493 Lens system and image observation apparatus Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda 2025-04-29
12001039 Display apparatus and imaging apparatus Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda 2024-06-04 $741,000
11874448 Lens system and image observation apparatus Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda 2024-01-16 $973,000
11137616 Display device Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda, Toshihiro Kusunoki 2021-10-05 $1,526,000
11126840 Head-mounted display Manabu Ishioka, Toshihiro Kusunoki 2021-09-21 $1,609,000
10930185 Information processing system, information processing apparatus, output apparatus, program, and recording medium Atsushi Takizawa, Takamasa Araki, Rei Miyazaki 2021-02-23 $1,375,000
10672110 Information processing system, information processing apparatus, output apparatus, program, and recording medium Atsushi Takizawa, Takamasa Araki, Rei Miyazaki 2020-06-02 $486,000
10641931 Fresnel lens and manufacturing method for Fresnel lens Manabu Ishioka, Toshihiro Kusunoki 2020-05-05 $775,000
10635901 Head-mounted display Manabu Ishioka, Toshihiro Kusunoki 2020-04-28 $676,000
10502950 Wearable display device and image display method Koji Kikuchi, Takamasa Araki, Masatoshi Nakamura, Rei Miyazaki 2019-12-10 $716,000
4385795 Connector for flat cable Seiji Endoh, Toru KUGA, Yasuo Takeda, Kazuo Mitsui, Yoji Yoshimura 1983-05-31