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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Satoshi Yanobe — 29 Patents

TOTopcon: 24 patents #27 of 684Top 4%
SCSokkia Co.: 2 patents #7 of 45Top 20%
SCSokkia Topcon Co.: 2 patents #1 of 13Top 8%
RIRiken: 1 patents #679 of 1,824Top 40%
Tokyo, JP: #4,654 of 90,295 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Satoshi Yanobe has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Topcon. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in November 2025. Satoshi Yanobe ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Satoshi Yanobe in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2018.peak 62005: 1 patents20052010: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 6 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12467889 Non-destructive inspection device and non- destructive inspection system Shigenori Nagano, Akira Yajima, Hanako AIKOH, Satoru ISHIGURO, Yoshie OTAKE +2 more 2025-11-11
12366542 Nondestructive inspection system Shigenori Nagano, Akira Yajima, Hanako AIKOH, Satoru ISHIGURO, Yoshie OTAKE +2 more 2025-07-22
11953891 Work management system and work management method Toshio Yamada, Kazuki Osaragi 2024-04-09
11880943 Photogrammetry of building using machine learning based inference Yasufumi Fukuma 2024-01-23
11868325 Data management system, management method, and storage medium Atsushi DOJI, Toshio Yamada, Nobuyuki Nishita 2024-01-09
11393169 Photogrammetry of building using machine learning based inference Yasufumi Fukuma 2022-07-19
11293786 Rotary encoder 2022-04-05
10982957 Surveying system Fumio Ohtomo, Kaoru Kumagai 2021-04-20
10724860 Surveying device and survey system Nobuyuki Nishita, Jumpei Kochi 2020-07-28
10712153 Method for controlling ultrasonic motor and surveying instrument for the same Kaoru Kumagai, Tetsutaro Kouji 2020-07-14
10578433 Inclination sensor Hideyuki Matsumoto 2020-03-03
10564265 Measurement device and measurement method Takahiro Inoue, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Fumio Ohtomo 2020-02-18
10386485 Laser scanner 2019-08-20
10323940 Tilt angle measuring device Masaki Kamiki, Goro Iwasaki, Shinji Yamaguchi, Eiji Takeuchi, Yosuke Okudaira 2019-06-18
10267659 Angle detecting device and surveying instrument 2019-04-23
10262435 Surveying instrument Kaoru Kumagai 2019-04-16
10211387 Method for controlling ultrasonic motor and surveying instrument for the same Kaoru Kumagai, Tetsutaro Kouji 2019-02-19
10139224 Measuring device Masaki Kamiki, Goro Iwasaki, Shinji Yamaguchi, Eiji Takeuchi, Yosuke Okudaira 2018-11-27
10006767 Automatic leveling method and automatic leveling device Homare Momiyama 2018-06-26
9989632 Measuring system, and portable radio transceiver and measurement pole used in measuring system 2018-06-05
9979324 Method for controlling ultrasonic motor and surveying instrument for the same Kaoru Kumagai 2018-05-22
9927229 Measuring device and tilt sensor Nobuyuki Nishita 2018-03-27
9891046 Absolute rotary encoder for surveying device 2018-02-13
9714848 Angle detection device and survey instrument including the same 2017-07-25
9500479 Simplified distance meter Kaoru Kumagai, Jun-ichi Kodaira 2016-11-22