Masahiro Abe
167Patents
28h-index
181Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 21, 1974 → Apr 6, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5266526A | Method of forming trench buried wiring for semiconductor device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 483 | Expired |
| US5870138A | Facial image processing | Physics | 193 | Expired |
| US4618878A | Semiconductor device having a multilayer wiring structure using a polyimide resin | Electricity | 164 | Expired |
| US5699441A | Continuous sign-language recognition apparatus and input apparatus | Physics | 130 | Expired |
| US5544050A | Sign language learning system and method | Physics | 123 | Expired |
| US5872069A | Glass-ceramics for magnetic disc substrate, magnetic disc substrate and magnetic disc | Physics | 102 | Expired |
| US5887069A | Sign recognition apparatus and method and sign translation system using same | Physics | 100 | Expired |
| US5659764A | Sign language generation apparatus and sign language translation apparatus | Physics | 95 | Expired |
| US5953693A | Sign language generation apparatus and sign language translation apparatus | Physics | 86 | Expired |
| US8143981B2 | Input device and electronic apparatus using same | Electricity | 82 | Active |
| US6270876A | Crystallized glass, substrate for magnetic disc, magnetic disc and method of producing crystallized glass | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 71 | Expired |
| US4610079A | Method of dicing a semiconductor wafer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 70 | Expired |
| US5055906A | Semiconductor device having a composite insulating interlayer | Electricity | 60 | Expired |
| US4520041A | Method for forming metallization structure having flat surface on semiconductor substrate | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US6048589A | Substrates for magnetic discs, magnetic discs and process for producing magnetic discs | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Expired |
| US5307266A | Information processing system and method for processing document by using structured keywords | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US6167583A | Double side cleaning apparatus for semiconductor substrate | Performing Operations; Transporting | 46 | Expired |
| US5481454A | Sign language/word translation system | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US3952183A | Sheet counting apparatus | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US4017004A | Paper money dispensing apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 38 | Expired |
| US4634496A | Method for planarizing the surface of an interlayer insulating film in a semiconductor device | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US5169407A | Method of determining end of cleaning of semiconductor manufacturing apparatus | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US5100476A | Method and apparatus for cleaning semiconductor devices | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US5473705A | Sign language translation system and method that includes analysis of dependence relationships between successive words | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5329596A | Automatic clustering method | Physics | 33 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.