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Tomohiro Watanabe — 61 Patents

Sony: 16 patents #2,638 of 25,231Top 15%
Canon: 12 patents #5,476 of 19,416Top 30%
SCShin-Etsu Chemical Co.: 12 patents #363 of 2,176Top 20%
FCFurukawa Electric Co.: 4 patents #478 of 2,370Top 25%
Nec: 3 patents #4,217 of 14,502Top 30%
Honda Motor Co.: 3 patents #6,619 of 21,052Top 35%
SLSpansion Llc.: 2 patents #309 of 769Top 45%
NTNTT: 2 patents #2,095 of 4,871Top 45%
CKCalsonic Kansei: 1 patents #307 of 675Top 50%
TCTombow Pencil Co.: 1 patents #17 of 53Top 35%
UNUnicharm: 1 patents #390 of 624Top 65%
Nissan Motor Co.: 1 patents #4,519 of 8,689Top 55%
Panasonic: 1 patents #13,316 of 21,108Top 65%
NCNippondenso Co.: 1 patents #1,765 of 3,479Top 55%
MAMarelli: 1 patents #21 of 84Top 25%
KOKoganei: 1 patents #41 of 103Top 40%
Niigata, JP: #10 of 1,265 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
Tomohiro Watanabe has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in May 2025. Tomohiro Watanabe ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list Tomohiro Watanabe in Niigata, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12312309 3-acyloxymethyl-3-butenal acetal compounds Takeshi Kinsho, Akihiro Baba, Yusuke Nagae 2025-05-27
12312310 Methods of producing 7-methyl-3-methylene-7-octenal acetal compounds Takeshi Kinsho, Akihiro Baba, Yusuke Nagae 2025-05-27
12139122 Vehicle brake system Katsuya Matsuzaki, Eisuke Horii, Katsuhito Kanbe, Kei Yamano, Soichiro Ueura 2024-11-12 $161,000
12043215 Vehicle article storage structure Takeshi Nishimura, Shota Watase, Masato Abe, Masami Kikuchi 2024-07-23
11897842 Method for producing 7-methyl-3-methylene-7-octenal acetal compound Takeshi Kinsho, Akihiro Baba, Yusuke Nagae 2024-02-13
11746078 Kinetic resolution reaction of a (1RS,2SR)-(2-hydroxy-3,5,5-trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl)methyl carboxylate compound, a process for preparing optically active trans-α-necrodyl isobutyrate, and a process for preparing optically active γ-necrodyl isobutyrate Takeshi Kinsho, Takeru Watanabe, Miyoshi Yamashita, Yusuke Nagae 2023-09-05
11530176 Processes for preparing a 2-(1,2,2-trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl)-2-oxoethyl carboxylate compound and hydroxymethyl 1,2,2-trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl ketone, and a halomethyl (1,2,2-trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl) ketone compound Takeshi Kinsho 2022-12-20
11518729 Processes for preparing 5,5-dimethyl-2-oxo-3-cyclopentene-1-carboxylate compounds and 3,5,5-trimethyl-2-oxo-3-cyclopentene-1-carboxylate compounds from 3,3-dimethyl-1-butene-1,4-dicarboxylate compounds and 1,3,3-trimethyl-1-butene-1,4-dicarboxylate compounds, and 1,3,3-trimethyl-1-butene-1,4-dicarboxylate compounds Takeshi Kinsho, Miyoshi Yamashita 2022-12-06
11469689 Vibration wave motor, drive control system, and optical apparatus Akira Uebayashi, Tatsuo Furuta, Shinya Koyama 2022-10-11 $45,000
11384046 7-methyl-3-methylene-7-octenal acetal compound and methods for producing aldehyde compound and ester compound using the same Takeshi Kinsho, Akihiro Baba, Yusuke Nagae 2022-07-12
11370741 Processes for preparing alpha-necrodyl compounds and processes for preparing gamma-necrodyl compounds Takeshi Kinsho, Yusuke Nagae 2022-06-28
11258376 Vibration wave motor, drive control system, optical apparatus, and electronic apparatus Tatsuo Furuta, Akira Uebayashi, Shinya Koyama 2022-02-22 $41,000
11201279 Piezoelectric material, piezoelectric element, vibration wave motor, optical apparatus, and electronic apparatus Makoto Kubota, Akira Uebayashi, Kanako Oshima, Tatsuo Furuta 2021-12-14 $36,000
10868232 Piezoelectric material, manufacturing method for piezoelectric material, piezoelectric element, vibration wave motor, optical equipment, and electronic device Hiroshi Saito, Akira Uebayashi, Yuto Niinuma, Yasushi Shimizu, Toshihiko Akatsuka 2020-12-15 $39,000
10781146 Process for preparing a 5-alken-1-yne compound, (6Z)-1,1-dialkoxy-6-nonen-2-yne compound, (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal and (2E)-cis-6,7-epoxy-2-nonenal, and 1,1-dialkoxy-6-nonen-2-yne compound Takeshi Kinsho, Yuki Miyake 2020-09-22
10737999 1-haloalkadiene and a process for preparing the same and a process for preparing (9e, 11z)-9,11-hexadecadienyl acetate Yuki Miyake, Takeshi Kinsho 2020-08-11
10662166 Process for preparing (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal and a process for preparing (2E)-cis 6,7-epoxy-2-nonenal Yuki Miyake, Takeshi Kinsho 2020-05-26
10618862 Process for preparing (9e, 11z)-9,11-hexadecadienal Yuki Miyake, Takeshi Kinsho, Yusuke Nagae 2020-04-14
10611718 7-methyl-3-methylene-7-octenal acetal compound and methods for producing aldehyde compound and ester compound using the same Takeshi Kinsho, Akihiro Baba, Yusuke Nagae 2020-04-07
10077019 Vehicle airbag device 2018-09-18
10045268 Wireless base station, traffic load-balancing method, and storage medium with program stored thereon Yasuhiko Matsunaga, Atsushi Nakata 2018-08-07
9769707 Communication system, base station, gateway device, base station control method, and gateway device control method Atsushi Nakata, Yoshio Ueda 2017-09-19
9688254 Stop control system for vehicle Eisuke Horii, Yoshinari Sugita, Shinichi Arai, Syumpei Tahara, Hiroshi Yoneguchi +4 more 2017-06-27 $328,000
9591532 Communication control method, radio communication system, radio base station, and non-transitory computer readable medium Yoshio Ueda, Atsushi Nakata 2017-03-07
9463781 Stop control system for vehicle Eisuke Horii, Yoshinari Sugita, Shinichi Arai, Syumpei Tahara, Hiroshi Yoneguchi +4 more 2016-10-11 $720,000