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IDiyas’s Digital Inventor Badge (DIB) showcases an inventor’s inventive prowess in granted patents across Utility, Design, and Plant patents. The data has been tracked since January 1, 1976, and refreshed each Tuesday. The data benchmarks an inventor’s prolificness to other inventors in their city, state, country, and the world. The badge reflects an inventor’s success in granted patents across their career.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Sep 9 2025

11 Utility and 1 Design Patents

#14,286 in Tokyo

#76,236 in Japan

#357,715 in the World

rank by utility patents

Masayoshi Son

Forward Citations = 160

Company Filing History:

Softbankbb Corporation

5. 1 out of 2,245

where one patent can have more than one assignee

Masayoshi Son, a Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, is celebrated as an innovative inventor. He founded SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG), a strategic technology-focused investment holding company, and serves as the chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings. Son’s visionary contributions span PC software distribution, computing-related publishing, and telecommunications. Notably, his $20 million initial investment in Alibaba Group in 2000 grew to a staggering paper valuation of about $50 billion before Alibaba’s IPO in 2014.

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