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Yang Li
YL
Yang Li
— 8 Patents in 2016
HB
Hgst Netherlands, B.V.
:
3
patents
#40
of
340
Top 15%
Google
:
3
patents
#624
of
5,263
Top 15%
KE
Knowles Electronics
:
2
patents
#14
of
73
Top 20%
Palo Alto, CA
:
#79
of
2,001
inventors
Top 4%
California
:
#1,630
of
57,791
inventors
Top 3%
Overall
(2016):
#9,322
of
481,213
Top 2%
8
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
Showing
1–8
of
8
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9502028
Acoustic activity detection apparatus and method
Dibyendu Nandy
,
Henrik Thomsen
,
Claus Erdmann Fürst
2016-11-22
$4,069,000
9478234
Microphone apparatus and method with catch-up buffer
Dibyendu Nandy
,
Ramanujapuram Raghuvir
,
Robert A. Popper
,
Andrzej Pawlowski
,
Kim Spetzler Berthelsen
+3 more
2016-10-25
$7,976,000
9459835
Random number generator by superparamagnetism
Patrick M. Braganca
,
Jordan Asher Katine
,
Neil Leslie Robertson
,
Qingbo Wang
,
Haiwen Xi
2016-10-04
9417760
Auto-completion for user interface design
Tsung-Hsiang Chang
2016-08-16
$13,695,000
9372898
Enabling event prediction as an on-device service for mobile interaction
—
2016-06-21
$26,296,000
9305579
Fabrication of side-by-side sensors for MIMO recording
Patrick M. Braganca
,
Jordan Asher Katine
,
Neil Smith
,
Hsin-wei Tseng
2016-04-05
9268459
Auto-completion for user interface design
Tsung-Hsiang Chang
2016-02-23
$16,485,000
9236069
Method for making a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor with reduced-width self-aligned top electrode
Patrick M. Braganca
,
Jeffrey R. Childress
,
Jordan Asher Katine
,
Neil Leslie Robertson
,
Neil Smith
+2 more
2016-01-12
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