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Nobuhiro Kitagawa — 40 Patents

SYSysmex: 29 patents #5 of 868Top 1%
FIFujifilm Business Innovation: 5 patents #2,016 of 1,659Top 125%
TCToa Medical Electronics Co.: 3 patents #26 of 118Top 25%
Brother Kogyo: 1 patents #2,155 of 2,767Top 80%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
Akashi, JP: #12 of 837 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Nobuhiro Kitagawa has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sysmex. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in August 2024. Nobuhiro Kitagawa ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Nobuhiro Kitagawa in Akashi, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2015.peak 51991: 2 patents19911997: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 3 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 2 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 3 patents20162018: 1 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 2 patents20222024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12056629 Booth reservation system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and booth reservation method Kengo TOKUCHI 2024-08-06
12035040 Collation device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program Yukari Motosugi, Kazuhiro Hirata, Shigeru Yamamoto, Masahiro Igusa, Minoru Oshima +2 more 2024-07-09
11494896 Collation device Shigeru Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Hirata 2022-11-08
11386658 Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium Jun Shingu, Suresh MURALI 2022-07-12
11047776 Liquid sending method using sample processing chip and liquid sending device for sample processing chip Yoshinobu MIURA, Michitaka Notoya, Shuji Yamashita, Nobuyasu HORI 2021-06-29
10858697 Nucleic acid analyzer and nucleic acid analyzing method Toshiyuki Ozawa, Masanori Imazu, Hironori Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Kitawaki 2020-12-08
10814326 Nucleic acid analyzer and nucleic acid analyzing method Toshiyuki Ozawa, Masanori Imazu, Hironori Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Kitawaki 2020-10-27
10678353 Electronic apparatus for communication between electronic pen and external device Eisuke Osakabe 2020-06-09
10672121 Analysis method and analyzer Sayuri Tomoda, Jianyin Lu, Kosuke Jitsuhara 2020-06-02
10031151 Analysis device and reagent container Takaaki Nagai, Yuichi Hamada 2018-07-24
9377477 Analysis device and reagent container Takaaki Nagai, Yuichi Hamada 2016-06-28
9310389 Sample processing apparatus with sample feeding unit Koichi Okubo 2016-04-12
9229017 Sample processing apparatus, transport apparatus and non-transitory storage medium 2016-01-05
9213041 Rack transporting apparatus and sample processing apparatus Kei Takai, Hiroo Tatsutani 2015-12-15
9194866 Sample analyzer Yuichi Hamada, Takaaki Nagai 2015-11-24
9103807 Rack collecting unit and sample processing apparatus Yuichiro Ohmae 2015-08-11
9068964 Blood cell counter and cell counting method Masahiko Oguro, Kozo Fujii 2015-06-30
9068956 Specimen analyzing apparatus and specimen analyzing method Kazuya Fukuda, Hiroki Koike, Hironori Katsumi, Takashi Yamato, Masayuki Ikeda +3 more 2015-06-30
8920722 Sample analyzer and sample analyzing method Shuhei Kaneko, Kyozo Fujita 2014-12-30
8815180 Sample processing apparatus 2014-08-26
8752440 Sample processing apparatus and method for transporting rack Hiroo Tatsutani, Nobuyoshi Yamakawa, Tomoyuki Asahara 2014-06-17
8641969 Sample testing apparatus with controled sample transport mechanism capable of transport in two opposing directions Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroo Tatsutani, Tomoyuki Asahara 2014-02-04
8277729 Sample analyzer, reagent aspirating method, and computer program product Naohiko Matsuo, Hiroyuki Fujino, Takamichi Naito 2012-10-02
8234941 Specimen analyzing apparatus and specimen analyzing method Kazuya Fukuda, Hiroki Koike, Hironori Katsumi, Takashi Yamato, Masayuki Ikeda +3 more 2012-08-07
D650910 Specimen transporter Fumie Shibata 2011-12-20