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Photography and imaging Patent Leaders in 2016 2016

Primary CPC class G03 · Section G

Rankings count each patent once by its primary Cooperative Patent Classification. All-time pages aggregate the full database; year pages use patent grant year.

Recent years: 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5,566 patents in 2014.peak 5,5661996: 3,202 patents19961997: 3,117 patents1998: 4,137 patents1999: 3,884 patents19992000: 3,734 patents2001: 3,636 patents2002: 3,537 patents20022003: 3,588 patents2004: 3,651 patents2005: 2,993 patents20052006: 3,771 patents2007: 3,608 patents2008: 3,719 patents20082009: 3,851 patents2010: 5,032 patents2011: 5,097 patents20112012: 5,123 patents2013: 5,276 patents2014: 5,566 patents20142015: 5,436 patents2016: 4,959 patents2017: 4,013 patents20172018: 3,942 patents2019: 4,085 patents2020: 3,862 patents20202021: 3,492 patents2022: 3,140 patents2023: 2,928 patents20232024: 2,754 patents2025: 2,784 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Shougo Sato 63 Brother Kogyo
2 Anthony Yen 28 TSMC
3 Kenji Ishii 24 Ricoh Company
#4 Toshihiko Shimokawa 24 Ricoh Company
#5 Shinn-Sheng Yu 23 TSMC
#6 Shuutaroh Yuasa 23 Ricoh Company
#7 Yutaka Ikebuchi 23 Ricoh Company
#8 Jun Hatakeyama 21 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
#9 Kazuya Saito 21 Ricoh Company
#10 Yuji Arai 21 Ricoh Company
#11 Hiroki Mori 20 Brother Kogyo
#12 Hiroshi Yoshinaga 20 Ricoh Company
#13 Jeng-Horng Chen 20 TSMC
#14 Yoshiki Yamaguchi 20 Ricoh Company
#15 Akira Suzuki 19 Ricoh Company
#16 Arinobu Yoshiura 19 Ricoh Company
#17 Tadashi Ogawa 19 Ricoh Company
#18 Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus Donders 18 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#19 Erik Roelof Loopstra 17 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#20 Junpei Fujita 17 Ricoh Company
#21 Kensuke Yamaji 17 Ricoh Company
#22 Naoki Iwaya 17 Ricoh Company
#23 Noboru Suzuki 17 Brother Kogyo
#24 Yuichi Shibazaki 17 Nikon
#25 Jin Wu 16 Xerox
#26 Naoya Kamimura 16 Brother Kogyo
#27 Takahiro Imada 16 Ricoh Company
#28 Hajime Gotoh 15 Ricoh Company
#29 Hiromasa Takagi 15 Ricoh Company
#30 Kazuki Yogosawa 15 Ricoh Company
#31 Kenji Sugiura 15 Ricoh Company
#32 Nao Itabashi 15 Brother Kogyo
#33 Nicolaas Ten Kate 15 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#34 Seiichi Kogure 15 Ricoh Company
#35 Shinya Tanaka 15 Ricoh Company
#36 Takuya Seshita 15 Ricoh Company
#37 Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine 15 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#38 Yen-Cheng Lu 15 TSMC
#39 Daisuke Eto 14 Kyocera Document Solutions
#40 Hans-Juergen Mann 14 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#41 Naoki Akiyama 14 Canon
#42 Takamasa Hase 14 Ricoh Company
#43 Yasushi Okabe 14 Brother Kogyo
#44 Andrei Mikhailovich Yakunin 13 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#45 Christiaan Alexander Hoogendam 13 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#46 Edward G. Zwartz 13 Xerox
#47 Hiroshi Hosokawa 13 Ricoh Company
#48 Junichi Hashimoto 13 Brother Kogyo
#49 Ke Zhou 13 Xerox
#50 Koji Ichikawa 13 Sumitomo Chemical
#51 Masato Tanaka 13 Canon
#52 Masaaki Yoshikawa 13 Ricoh Company
#53 Raymond Wilhelmus Louis Lafarre 13 Asml Holding N.V.
#54 Ryuuichi Mimbu 13 Ricoh Company
#55 Takeshi Uchitani 13 Ricoh Company
#56 Takefumi Yotsutsuji 13 Kyocera Document Solutions
#57 Ching-Yu Chang 12 TSMC
#58 Daisuke Tanaka 12 Canon
#59 Hiroyuki Nagasaka 12 Nikon
#60 Kei Ishida 12 Brother Kogyo
#61 Markus Deguenther 12 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#62 Michihisa Magome 12 Canon
#63 Naohiro Kumagai 12 Ricoh Company
#64 Shigeaki Takada 12 Canon
#65 Takuji Matsuno 12 Brother Kogyo
#66 Takayuki Seki 12 Ricoh Company
#67 Teppei Kawata 12 Ricoh Company
#68 Tomoyasu Hirasawa 12 Ricoh Company
#69 Yuuji Wada 12 Ricoh Company
#70 Chia-Jen Chen 11 TSMC
#71 Hideo Kanai 11 Ricoh Company
#72 Jeroen Johannes Sophia Maria Mertens 11 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#73 Johannes Catharinus Hubertus Mulkens 11 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#74 Keisuke Ikeda 11 Ricoh Company
#75 Kenji Kikuchi 11 Ricoh Company
#76 Koji Hasegawa 11 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
#77 Masayoshi Sagehashi 11 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
#78 Makoto Souda 11 Brother Kogyo
#79 Masamichi Yamada 11 Ricoh Company
#80 Michael Craig Leemhuis 11 Lexmark International
#81 Motoyoshi Yamano 11 Ricoh Company
#82 Naoyuki Ishikawa 11 Ricoh Company
#83 Takeshi Murakami 11 Ebara
#84 Tetsuya Fujioka 11 Ricoh Company
#85 Toshinori Nakayama 11 Canon
#86 Yasunori Ishigaya 11 Ricoh Company
#87 Yoshihiro Yamagishi 11 Kyocera Document Solutions
#88 Atsushi Okuda 10 Canon
#89 Bob Streefkerk 10 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#90 Brian Scott Carpenter 10 Lexmark International
#91 Chih-Tsung Shih 10 TSMC
#92 Frank Schlesener 10 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#93 Hirokazu Ishii 10 Ricoh Company
#94 Hideki Kimura 10 Ricoh Company
#95 Hsin-Chang Lee 10 TSMC
#96 Junichi Matsumura 10 Canon
#97 Nicolaas Rudolf Kemper 10 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#98 Tamotsu Shimizu 10 Kyocera Document Solutions
#99 Takashi Shimizu 10 Brother Kogyo
#100 Yasuo Fukamachi 10 Brother Kogyo

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Canon 944
2 Ricoh Company 438
3 Kyocera Document Solutions 353
#4 Brother Kogyo 313
#5 Fujifilm Business Innovation 254
#6 Asml Netherlands B.V. 174
#7 Samsung 156
#8 Konica Minolta 146
#9 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 110
#10 Nikon 97
#11 Xerox 95
#12 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 94
#13 TSMC 90
#14 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh 89
#15 Lexmark International 82
#16 Seiko Epson 72
#17 Fujifilm 65
#18 Oki Data 57
#19 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. 56
#20 HP 42
#21 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 36
#22 Eastman Kodak 33
#23 Panasonic 32
#24 Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. 30
#25 BOE 30
#26 Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 23
#27 Jsr 22
#28 Sony 21
#29 Tokyo Electron Limited 20
#30 United Microelectronics 20
#31 Globalfoundries 19
#32 Hoya 19
#33 Applied Materials 17
#34 Coretronic 15
#35 Asml Holding N.V. 14
#36 Casio Computer Co. 14
#37 Gopro 14
#38 Seiko Precision 14
#39 Kla-Tencor 13
#40 Sumitomo Chemical 13
#41 Beijing Boe Display Technology Co. 12
#42 Cheil Industries 12
#43 Disney 12
#44 LG 12
#45 Chimei 11
#46 Mitsubishi Chemical 11
#47 Nissan Chemical Industries 11
#48 D2S 10
#49 Hitachi Maxell 10
#50 Dai Nippon Printing Co. 9
#51 Amazon 8
#52 Delta Electronics 8
#53 Konica Minolta 8
#54 Nec Display Solutions 8
#55 Tencent 8
#56 Unknown 8
#57 IBM 8
#58 Micron 8
#59 Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 7
#60 Cj Cgv Co. 7
#61 E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 7
#62 Foxconn 7
#63 Mapper Lithography Ip B.V. 7
#64 Mitsubishi Electric 7
#65 Olympus 7
#66 Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 7
#67 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) 7
#68 V Technology Co. 7
#69 RTX (Raytheon) 7
#70 Asahi Glass Co. 6
#71 Osram Gmbh 6
#72 Really Right Stuff 6
#73 Static Control Components 6
#74 Sumitomo Rubber Industries 6
#75 Az Electronic Materials (Luxembourg) S.A.R.L. 5
#76 CEA 5
#77 Covestro Deutschland Ag 5
#78 Dowa Electronics Materials Co. 5
#79 Dowa Ip Creation Co. 5
#80 Dow Global Technologies 5
#81 Gigaphoton 5
#82 Lite-On Technology 5
#83 Sk Hynix 5
#84 Sumitomo Bakelite Co. 5
#85 Toppan Printing Co. 5
#86 Intel 5
#87 Apple 4
#88 Asia Optical Co. 4
#89 Barco N.V. 4
#90 Central Glass Company, Limited 4
#91 Christie Digital Systems Usa 4
#92 Cornell University 4
#93 General Plastic Industrial Co. 4
#94 Irresistible Materials 4
#95 Kao 4
#96 Mentor Graphics 4
#97 Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company 4
#98 Mycronic Ab 4
#99 Océ Printing Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg 4
#100 Orthogonal 4