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OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO

Overview
  • Total Patents
    51,177
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OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO has a total of 51,177 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1951. It filed its patents most often in Japan, United States and Germany. Its main competitors in its focus markets optics, audio-visual technology and medical technology are PENTAX CORP, FUJINON CORP and KONAN CAMERA RES INST.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing OLYMPUS OPTICAL COs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Nakamura Takeaki 1,067
#2 Ueda Yasuhiro 647
#3 Yabe Hisao 559
#4 Nonaka Osamu 507
#5 Nishikawa Masaharu 495
#6 Hibino Hiroki 410
#7 Nagasaki Tatsuo 391
#8 Kimura Kenji 369
#9 Yoshida Hideaki 355
#10 Takayama Shuichi 341

Latest patents

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