Tasuku Honjo

USPTO Granted Patents = 5

% Expired Patents = 40.0

Forward Citations = 253

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13 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Tasuku Honjo (5 out of 40 patents)

Shiro Shibayama (2 out of 52 patents)

Takao Yoshida (1 out of 13 patents)

4. Takashi Shinohara (1 out of 15 patents)

5. Kazuhiko Takeda (1 out of 8 patents)

6. Nagahiro Minato (1 out of 14 patents)

7. Masakazu Miyamoto (1 out of 9 patents)

8. Hideaki Tada (1 out of 17 patents)

9. Masayoshi Matsuo (1 out of 8 patents)

10. Yoshiko Iwai (1 out of 8 patents)

11. Akira Shimizu (1 out of 7 patents)

12. Kei Tashiro (1 out of 11 patents)

13. Yasumasa Ishida (1 out of 2 patents)

5 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 9393301 - Immunopotentiative composition (2016-07-19),

2. 8246955 - Substance specific to human PD-1 (2012-08-21),

3. 5629204 - Peptide related to human programmed cell death and DNA encoding it (1997-05-13),

4. 5525486 - Process for constructing cDNA library, and novel polypeptide and DNA (1996-06-11),

5. 4816565 - Interleukin 2 receptor and a method for production thereof (1989-03-28),

Company Overview

Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese immunologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018 for his discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation. He is a professor in the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine at Kyoto University. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of immune regulation and applying that knowledge to develop new cancer immunotherapies.

Profile summary synthesized from public USPTO records and patent filings.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Oct 13 2026

5 Patents

#237 in

#6,652 in Japan

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Tasuku Honjo

Forward Citations = 253

13 inventors:

Tasuku Honjo (5 out of 40 patents)

Shiro Shibayama (2 out of 52 patents)

Takao Yoshida (1 out of 13 patents)

4. Takashi Shinohara (1 out of 15 patents)

5. Kazuhiko Takeda (1 out of 8 patents)

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Company Patent Portfolio: Tasuku Honjo. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/company/tasuku-honjo

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