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Pingfan Wu — 36 Patents

3M: 18 patents #791 of 11,543Top 7%
GE: 10 patents #3,367 of 36,430Top 10%
Lockheed Martin: 4 patents #788 of 6,507Top 15%
ATAdc Telecommunications: 3 patents #320 of 766Top 45%
Comcast: 1 patents #2,448 of 4,447Top 60%
Woodbury, MN: #104 of 1,562 inventorsTop 7%
Minnesota: #1,533 of 52,454 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Pingfan Wu has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in November 2024. Pingfan Wu ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Pingfan Wu in Woodbury, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2007.peak 42004: 2 patents20042006: 2 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 2 patents20092011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 4 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12146248 Flame-retardant non-woven fibrous webs Liyun Ren, Daniel J. Zillig, Sachin Talwar, Eumi Pyun, Jeffrey Allen Chambers +2 more 2024-11-19 $86,552,000
12125464 Assembly including acoustic baffles Ronald W. Gerdes, Catherine A. Leatherdale, Thomas Herdtle, Paul A. Nielsen, Timothy J. Rowell +5 more 2024-10-22 $47,106,000
11661687 Thermal insulators and methods thereof Tien T. Wu, Gerry A. Hoffdahl, Mingzhu Li 2023-05-30 $35,943,000
11235552 Thermal insulation materials and methods thereof Mingzhu Li, Tien T. Wu, Eumi Pyun, Zhong Hai Cai, Qisheng Pan 2022-02-01 $60,235,000
10668701 Sound and heat insulating blanket Lianzhou Chen, Fredrick W. Vance, Edward E. Cole, Charles W. Hedley, Gregory Simon +1 more 2020-06-02 $46,018,000
10501612 Curable composition for sound barrier film Lianzhou Chen, Fredrick W. Vance, Edward E. Cole, Charles W. Hedley, Gregory Simon +1 more 2019-12-10 $41,236,000
10286489 Apparatus and method for laser cutting using a support member having a gold facing layer Moses M. David, Bruce E. Tait, Schoen A. Schuknecht, Steven D. Theiss, Charles J. Studiner, IV +1 more 2019-05-14 $25,585,000
10035339 Laser cut articles Edward J. Woo, Ian R. Owen, Bruce E. Tait, Frederick P. LaPlant, Patrick R. Fleming 2018-07-31 $28,617,000
9878530 Laser cutting method and articles produced therewith Edward J. Woo, Ian R. Owen, Bruce E. Tait, Frederick P. LaPlant, Patrick R. Fleming 2018-01-30 $32,106,000
9603242 Laser patterning of silver nanowire-based transparent electrically conducting coatings Mark J. Pellerite, John P. Baetzold, John J. Stradinger, Hyacinth L. Lechuga, Manoj Nirmal 2017-03-21 $25,600,000
9540494 Silicone compositions and related methods Junkang J. Liu, Feng Bai, David A. Ylitalo 2017-01-10 $16,748,000
9093082 Data storage devices and methods Brian Lee Lawrence, Zhiyuan Ren, John Erik Hershey, Xiaolei Shi, Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II +2 more 2015-07-28 $27,017,000
9073179 Laser method for making shaped ceramic abrasive particles, shaped ceramic abrasive particles, and abrasive articles Dennis G. Welygan, Charles J. Studiner, IV, Dwight D. Erickson, Edward J. Woo 2015-07-07 $37,759,000
9045654 Multilayer articles capable of forming color images Douglas A. Dunn, Dennis E. Vogel, Stanley C. Busman 2015-06-02 $25,680,000
9033765 Coated abrasive article and methods of ablating coated abrasive articles Edward J. Woo, Patrick R. Fleming, Ian R. Owen, Schoen A. Schuknecht, Frederick P. LaPlant 2015-05-19 $21,368,000
8846160 Three-dimensional articles using nonlinear thermal polymerization Ying-Yuh Lu, Robin E. Wright, Robert J. DeVoe, Travis L. Potts, Douglas S. Dunn +2 more 2014-09-30 $15,765,000
8842351 Data storage method and device Brian Lee Lawrence, Marc Dubois, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, Xiaolei Shi, Eugene Pauling Boden 2014-09-23 $20,547,000
8771919 Laser marking process and articles Junkang Jacob Lui, Robert L. W. Smithson, Rachel M. Lucking, Panu K. Zoller, Jeffrey O. Emslander +1 more 2014-07-08 $37,007,000
8459807 Sheeting with composite image that floats Sammuel D. Herbert, Charles J. Studiner, IV, Robert L. W. Smithson, Robert T. Krasa, Douglas S. Dunn +1 more 2013-06-11 $10,349,000
8411120 Generation of color images Douglas S. Dunn, Dennis E. Vogel, Stanley C. Busman 2013-04-02 $17,108,000
8182966 Data storage devices and methods Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II, Zhiyuan Ren, Brian Lee Lawrence, John Erik Hershey, Xiaolei Shi +2 more 2012-05-22 $17,277,000
8084168 Holographic storage devices with complementary data layer and use thereof Xiaolei Shi, Zhiyuan Ren, Brian Lee Lawrence, John Erik Hershey, Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II +2 more 2011-12-27 $21,385,000
8057886 Optical article having anti-theft feature and a system and method for inhibiting theft of same Marc Brian Wisnudel, Terry Michael Topka, Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, David Gilles Gascoyne, William David Smith, II +10 more 2011-11-15
7626170 Pyroelectric detection systems and methods of making the same Kevin George Harding, Mark Joseph Bartonek, Brandi Wood 2009-12-01 $80,028,000
7494232 Passive broadband long wave and mid-wave infrared optical limiter device George Theodore Dalakos, Brian Lee Lawrence, Peter William Lorraine, William Yenisch 2009-02-24 $22,082,000