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Ning Yao — 26 Patents

Amazon: 20 patents #569 of 19,158Top 3%
RARawles: 5 patents #7 of 50Top 15%
TLThomson Licensing: 1 patents #1,365 of 2,575Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #2,428 of 32,062 inventorsTop 8%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Ning Yao has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Amazon. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in June 2025. Ning Yao ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Ning Yao in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12333769 Shape-based edge detection Qiang Liu 2025-06-17
11354879 Shape-based edge detection Qiang Liu 2022-06-07 $218,376,000
10528853 Shape-Based Edge Detection Qiang Liu 2020-01-07 $97,183,000
10289203 Detection of an input object on or near a surface Yue Liu 2019-05-14 $112,016,000
10126820 Open and closed hand detection Samuel Henry Chang, Sowmya Gopalan, Rahul Kamalkishore Agrawal 2018-11-13 $93,426,000
10026176 Browsing interface for item counterparts having different scales and lengths Alexander Adrian Hugh Davidson, Charles Shearer Dorner, Douglas J. Gradt, Jongwoo Lee, Eva Manolis +1 more 2018-07-17 $102,642,000
9870056 Hand and hand pose detection 2018-01-16 $79,675,000
9759994 Automatic projection focusing Olusanya Temitope Soyannwo, Renwei Yan, Edward Dietz Crump, Weijian Wang, Samuel Henry Chang 2017-09-12 $45,389,000
9753119 Audio and depth based sound source localization Kavitha Velusamy, Wai Chung Chu, Sowmya Gopalan, Qiang Liu, Rahul Kamalkishore Agrawal +1 more 2017-09-05 $35,065,000
9703371 Obtaining input from a virtual user interface Samuel Henry Chang 2017-07-11 $34,852,000
9704027 Gesture recognition Samuel Henry Chang, Sowmya Gopalan, Yuhua Zhu 2017-07-11 $34,852,000
9551922 Foreground analysis on parametric background surfaces Qiang Liu, Sowmya Gopalan 2017-01-24 $64,216,000
9456187 Edge-based pose detection Qiang Liu, Samuel Henry Chang 2016-09-27 $82,602,000
9390500 Pointing finger detection Samuel Henry Chang 2016-07-12 $70,289,000
9380270 Skin detection in an augmented reality environment William Spencer Worley, III, Edward Dietz Crump, Sowmya Gopalan 2016-06-28 $79,686,000
9336602 Estimating features of occluded objects Samuel Henry Chang 2016-05-10 $82,570,000
9336607 Automatic identification of projection surfaces Samuel Henry Chang, Sowmya Gopalan 2016-05-10 $82,570,000
9304582 Object-based color detection and correction Vijay Kamarshi, Helder Jesus Ramalho, Rahul Kamalkishore Agrawal, Robert Ramsey Flenniken, Paul Matthew Bombach +2 more 2016-04-05 $52,195,000
9201499 Object tracking in a 3-dimensional environment Samuel Henry Chang 2015-12-01 $81,962,000
9197870 Automatic projection focusing Olusanya Temitope Soyannwo, Samuel Henry Chang, Edward Dietz Crump, Weijian Wang, Renwei Yan 2015-11-24 $69,946,000
9081418 Obtaining input from a virtual user interface Samuel Henry Chang 2015-07-14
9041691 Projection surface with reflective elements for non-visible light Menashe Haskin, Kavitha Velusamy, Robert Warren Sjoberg, Vijay Kamarshi, Kevin Arthur 2015-05-26
8970479 Hand gesture detection Samuel Henry Chang, Weijian Wang, Sowmya Gopalan, Yuhua Zhu, Manika Puri 2015-03-03
8840250 Projection screen qualification and selection William Spencer Worley, III, Edward Dietz Crump 2014-09-23
8837778 Pose tracking Samuel Henry Chang 2014-09-16