Patent
"Three-dimensional structure and its manufacturing method", I. Shimoyama, K. Matsumoto, K. Hoshino, K. Noda, S. Hachitani, H. Yoshida, S. Kobayashi, T. Nakamura, Patent No. 8440089, Filing date 2013/5/14
#Several more in Japanese.
"Near-field optical microscope, near-field optical probe, and sample observation", K. Karaki, K. Nishioka, Y. Sasaki, T. Tsukagoshi, Y. Ajiki, I. Shimoyama, K. Matsumoto, T. Kan, Y. Takei, K. Noda, Patent No. 8424111, Filing date 2013/4/16
#Several more in Japanese.