Patent assignee · JP · COMPANY

NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION

3,551Patents
1,497Active
3,551Granted
54Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jul 6, 1973 → Nov 28, 2023 · 210 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5306666A Process for forming a thin metal film by chemical vapor deposition Electricity 689 Expired
US4984904A Apparatus for continuously measuring temperature of molten metal and method for making same Physics 572 Expired
US7204887B2 Wafer holding, wafer support member, wafer boat and heat treatment furnace Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 544 Expired
US5181779A Thermocouple temperature sensor and a method of measuring the temperature of molten iron Physics 479 Expired
US5812697A Method and apparatus for recognizing hand-written characters using a weighting dictionary Physics 255 Expired
US5412601A Non-volatile semiconductor memory device capable of storing multi-value data in each memory cell Physics 189 Expired
US4407681A High tensile steel and process for producing the same Chemistry; Metallurgy 145 Expired
US5596527A Electrically alterable n-bit per cell non-volatile memory with reference cells Physics 145 Expired
US5436481A MOS-type semiconductor device and method of making the same Electricity 131 Expired
US5546578A Data base retrieval system utilizing stored vicinity feature values Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 131 Expired
US5424978A Non-volatile semiconductor memory cell capable of storing more than two different data and method of using the same Physics 127 Expired
US5227662A Composite lead frame and semiconductor device using the same Electricity 125 Expired
US5418743A Method of writing into non-volatile semiconductor memory Physics 116 Expired
US8297096B2 Method for hydroforming and hydroformed product Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 114 Active
US5369661A Semiconductor laser-pumped solid state laser system and optical coupling system coupling semiconductor laser with optical fiber Electricity 114 Expired
US3986867A Iron-chromium series amorphous alloys Chemistry; Metallurgy 110 Expired
US5450354A Non-volatile semiconductor memory device detachable deterioration of memory cells Physics 109 Expired
US6380953B1 Method of display scrolling along a timebase and an apparatus for performing the method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 102 Expired
US5183863A Viscoelastic resin composition for vibration-damping material Chemistry; Metallurgy 101 Expired
US6099414A Golf club head and method for producing the same Human Necessities 96 Expired
US4375388A Apparatus for filling carbonizing chamber of coke oven with powered coal with vibration applied thereto Chemistry; Metallurgy 91 Expired
US5883975A Compression and decompression methods on two-dimensional image data Electricity 90 Expired
US5450341A Non-volatile semiconductor memory device having memory cells, each for at least three different data writable thereinto selectively and a method of using the same Physics 87 Expired
US5513201A Optical path rotating device used with linear array laser diode and laser apparatus applied therewith Electricity 87 Expired
US5613211A Method of establishing inter base-station synchronization and mobile radio communicaton system using the method Electricity 85 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.