40 US patents granted on 12 May 2009 and assigned to Sony
| 1 | D592,181 | Headphone |
| 2 | D592,130 | Rechargeable battery |
| 3 | 7,533,397 | Disc cartridge |
| 4 | 7,533,394 | Disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus |
| 5 | 7,533,224 | Apparatus, method and computer program for content utilization management |
| 6 | 7,533,180 | Information-processing device, information-processing method, recording medium, and program |
| 7 | 7,533,100 | Network system, element thereof and context management method |
| 8 | 7,532,907 | Method of providing multiple data paths using a mobile terminal and related devices |
| 9 | 7,532,876 | Communication system and associated method of performing mutual authentication |
| 10 | 7,532,750 | Image processing apparatus and method, program, and image processing system |
| 11 | 7,532,743 | Object detector, object detecting method and robot |
| 12 | 7,532,674 | Transmitting device, transmitting method, and storage medium |
| 13 | 7,532,668 | Transmitter and transmitting method, receiver and receiving method, pulse detection method, and tracking method |
| 14 | 7,532,665 | Wireless communication apparatus and method, and computer program |
| 15 | 7,532,655 | Semiconductor light emitting device and method of producing the same |
| 16 | 7,532,654 | Laser diode |
| 17 | 7,532,558 | Data recording method and data recording medium |
| 18 | 7,532,419 | Apparatus and method for writing and reproducing data |
| 19 | 7,532,283 | Liquid crystal display |
| 20 | 7,532,279 | Reflective LCD device having a metal film outside pixel region which includes a light shielding electrode and common electrode contacting interior of substrate seal portion |
| 21 | 7,532,276 | Liquid crystal display device and method for producing the same |
| 22 | 7,532,248 | Adapter device and video camera device |
| 23 | 7,532,247 | Image pickup apparatus |
| 24 | 7,532,240 | Imaging apparatus and imaging methods |
| 25 | 7,532,217 | Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events |
| 26 | 7,532,199 | Input apparatus |
| 27 | 7,532,188 | Clocked inverter circuit, latch circuit, shift register circuit, drive circuit for display apparatus, and display apparatus |
| 28 | 7,532,148 | Method and apparatus for AD conversion, semiconductor device for detecting distribution of physical quantity, and electronic apparatus |
| 29 | 7,531,988 | Battery pack having a protection circuit |
| 30 | 7,531,939 | Communication device |
| 31 | 7,531,856 | Display apparatus |
| 32 | 7,531,781 | Imager with image-taking portions optimized to detect separated wavelength components |
| 33 | 7,531,735 | Musical piece extraction program, apparatus, and method |
| 34 | 7,531,389 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device |
| 35 | 7,531,375 | Solid image-pickup device and method for manufacturing the solid image pickup device |
| 36 | 7,531,251 | Magnetic recording medium |
| 37 | 7,531,157 | Soluble carbon nanotubes |
| 38 | 7,531,136 | Chemical sensor |
| 39 | 7,530,823 | USB modem devices with a flip antenna and a retractable USB connector |
| 40 | 7,530,668 | Liquid ejection head, liquid ejection apparatus, and method for fabricating liquid ejection head |