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Heng Cao — 46 Patents

ATAlign Technology: 21 patents #51 of 483Top 15%
IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
RIRhapsody International: 5 patents #1 of 26Top 4%
ZTZte: 1 patents #1,461 of 3,593Top 45%
ATAutonetworks Technologies: 1 patents #723 of 1,079Top 70%
Xiaomi: 1 patents #677 of 1,395Top 50%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 1 patents #13,249 of 21,551Top 65%
SSSumitomo Wiring Systems: 1 patents #1,603 of 2,615Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #255 of 9,301 inventorsTop 3%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Heng Cao has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Align Technology. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in October 2025. Heng Cao ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Heng Cao in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12433720 Orthodontic appliances with elongate tactile objects Chia-Lung Li, Jennifer C. Chen, John Morton, John Moss, Clark Kaufhardt 2025-10-07
12251289 Methods of using an orthodontic appliance having a ridge Vadim Matov, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Ryan Kimura 2025-03-18
12186152 Methods for parametric attachments John Morton, Vadim Matov, Ryan Kimura, Jihua Cheng, Bastien Pesenti 2025-01-07
12121412 Orthodontic systems with elastic attachments Chunhua Li, Jennifer C. Chen, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Clark Kaufhardt 2024-10-22 $79,788,000
12059321 Orthodontic repositioning appliances having improved geometry, methods and systems Vadim Matov, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Ryan Kimura 2024-08-13 $84,460,000
11955695 Antenna module and terminal device 2024-04-09
11628044 Orthodontic repositioning appliances having improved geometry, methods and systems Vadim Matov, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Ryan Kimura 2023-04-18 $84,609,000
11571277 Method and system for optimizing dental aligner geometry Vadim Matov, John Morton, Eric Kuo 2023-02-07 $79,950,000
11547533 Tactile objects for orthodontics, systems and methods Chunhua Li, Jennifer C. Chen, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Clark Kaufhardt 2023-01-10 $99,378,000
11529215 Method and system for optimizing dental aligner geometry Vadim Matov, John Morton, Eric Kuo 2022-12-20 $89,326,000
11445602 Flexible circuit board on bus bars Shungo Hiratani, Shinsuke Okumi, Arinobu Nakamura, Akira Haraguchi 2022-09-13
11438654 Geographically tailored content management systems and methods Brian Ringer, Kenneth Murphy, Darryl William Wood, Gregory Welliver, Matthew James Eccles 2022-09-06
11202691 Orthodontic repositioning appliances having improved geometry, methods and systems Vadim Matov, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Ryan Kimura 2021-12-21 $196,884,000
10820967 Tactile objects for orthodontics, systems and methods Chunhua Li, Jennifer C. Chen, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Clark Kaufhardt 2020-11-03 $467,745,000
10741610 Memory cells and memory array structures including RRAM, and fabrication methods thereof Sheng Fen Chiu 2020-08-11
10615224 Memory cell, memory cell array and operating method thereof Sheng Fen Chiu 2020-04-07
10579667 Software preference affinity recommendation systems and methods Mario Raymond Gerard, Aaron Clark Griffith, Yu-Hsiang Wu, Nathan Kent ROZENDAAL, Benyi Wang 2020-03-03
10555226 Determining a location of a mobile device Wei Shan Dong, Chun Yang Ma, Ju Wei Shi, Chunhua Tian, Yu Wang +1 more 2020-02-04 $2,135,000
10536749 Adaptive predictive caching systems and methods Matthew James Eccles, Brian Ringer, Kenneth Murphy, Darryl William Wood, Gregory Welliver 2020-01-14
10460803 Memory cell, memory cell array, memory device and operation method of memory cell array Sheng Fen Chiu 2019-10-29
10423943 Graph-based music recommendation and dynamic media work micro-licensing systems and methods Darryl William Wood, Kenneth Murphy, Brian Ringer, Eric David Knutson, Nicholas Robert Soman +1 more 2019-09-24
10387478 Graph-based music recommendation and dynamic media work micro-licensing systems and methods Mario Raymond Gerard, Darryl William Wood, Aaron Clark Griffith, Yu-Hsiang Wu, Nathan Kent ROZENDAAL 2019-08-20
10382810 Method and device for implementing synchronous playing 2019-08-13
10307222 Orthodontic systems and methods including parametric attachments John Morton, Vadim Matov, Ryan Kimura, Jihua Cheng, Bastien Pesenti 2019-06-04 $230,487,000
10085823 Orthodontic repositioning appliances having improved geometry, methods and systems Vadim Matov, John Morton, Jon F. Moss, Ryan Kimura 2018-10-02 $224,306,000