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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Hao Zhou — 187 Patents

Apple: 15 patents #2,200 of 18,612Top 15%
BOBOE: 13 patents #1,573 of 12,373Top 15%
SBSabic Global Technologies B.V.: 12 patents #61 of 1,595Top 4%
BCBeijing Boe Display Technology Co.: 11 patents #134 of 1,245Top 15%
Disney: 10 patents #745 of 6,686Top 15%
Cisco: 10 patents #1,417 of 13,007Top 15%
Qualcomm: 10 patents #2,065 of 12,104Top 20%
MTMonsanto Technology: 6 patents #681 of 1,728Top 40%
RSRealtek Semiconductor: 5 patents #293 of 1,741Top 20%
SBShpp Global Technologies B.V.: 5 patents #14 of 241Top 6%
Foxconn: 5 patents #1,191 of 5,504Top 25%
TETencent: 5 patents #1,174 of 8,131Top 15%
Futurewei Technologies: 4 patents #427 of 1,563Top 30%
IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
HAH. Lundbeck A/S: 4 patents #142 of 451Top 35%
M&Milliken &: 4 patents #176 of 679Top 30%
American Express: 3 patents #405 of 1,774Top 25%
ALAppotronics Corporation Limited: 3 patents #30 of 93Top 35%
PUPeking University: 2 patents #129 of 875Top 15%
BCBaidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co.: 2 patents #293 of 1,477Top 20%
IAInventec Appliances: 2 patents #48 of 296Top 20%
GCGongniu Group Co.: 2 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
MEMetalenz: 2 patents #6 of 10Top 60%
BCBeijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co.: 2 patents #8 of 157Top 6%
FCFulian Yuzhan Precision Technology Co.: 2 patents #7 of 83Top 9%
OTOptotrace (Suzhou) Technologies: 2 patents #4 of 9Top 45%
Amazon: 2 patents #7,232 of 19,158Top 40%
Huawei: 1 patents #8,318 of 15,535Top 55%
SSSavant Systems: 1 patents #124 of 120Top 105%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Meta: 1 patents #6,652 of 6,883Top 100%
AMAmphenol: 1 patents #207 of 392Top 55%
BCBeijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co.: 1 patents #919 of 1,352Top 70%
BCBeijing Bytedance Network Technology Co.: 1 patents #308 of 765Top 45%
BLByd Company Limited: 1 patents #476 of 1,165Top 45%
CTChangsha University Of Science And Technology: 1 patents #64 of 194Top 35%
CHChromocell: 1 patents #11 of 26Top 45%
ECEmc Ip Holding Company: 1 patents #2,584 of 4,608Top 60%
GCGlobal Technology Co.: 1 patents #30 of 77Top 40%
HCHasco Vision Technology Co.: 1 patents #32 of 46Top 70%
JUJilin University: 1 patents #118 of 534Top 25%
NFNewport Fab: 1 patents #56 of 98Top 60%
NSNv Bekaert Sa: 1 patents #103 of 255Top 45%
PRPrintronix: 1 patents #40 of 75Top 55%
QKQnx Software Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg: 1 patents #9 of 19Top 50%
QLQnx Software Systems Limited: 1 patents #32 of 57Top 60%
RURubrik: 1 patents #204 of 335Top 65%
Sap Se: 1 patents #2,890 of 6,322Top 50%
SUShandong University: 1 patents #324 of 1,030Top 35%
Cypress Semiconductor: 1 patents #1,408 of 1,866Top 80%
SUSoochow University: 1 patents #224 of 747Top 30%
SCSungrow Power Supply Co.: 1 patents #110 of 226Top 50%
TAThe University Of Akron: 1 patents #250 of 724Top 35%
UCUniversity Of Science And Technology Of China: 1 patents #55 of 276Top 20%
WARF: 1 patents #1,912 of 4,123Top 50%
WFWisys Technology Foundation: 1 patents #32 of 153Top 25%
Overall (All Time): #3,928 of 4,157,543Top 1%
187 Patents All Time
Hao Zhou has been granted 187 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in October 2025. Hao Zhou ranks #3,928 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.09%). Patent records list Hao Zhou in Shanghai, CA, CN.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 21 patents in 2024.peak 211997: 1 patents19972001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 2 patents2009: 6 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 5 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 8 patents20132014: 15 patents2015: 9 patents2016: 7 patents20162017: 8 patents2018: 8 patents2019: 17 patents20192020: 10 patents2021: 13 patents2022: 14 patents20222023: 18 patents2024: 21 patents2025: 15 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 187 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12451056 Systems and methods for mitigating micro-LED failures Shengzhe Jiao, Arjunsimha Chaturbhuj, Chaole Chen, Derek K. Shaeffer, Dongjin Kwon +17 more 2025-10-21
12424940 Distributed power management with separate peak and average power paths Madhavi V. Tagare, Vijayanish Varadharajan, Rong Guo, Mao Ye, Benedict Foo +2 more 2025-09-23
12425838 Method and apparatus for establishing communication connections Yihuang Xie, Kaihang Wang 2025-09-23
12405480 Lens unit, optical lens, illumination module, vehicle light, and vehicle Jie Zhang, Jiayuan Chen, Shikun DONG, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang 2025-09-02
12373947 System and method for detecting lung abnormalities Fleming Lure, Shenwen Quan, Kunlei Hong, Qian Xiao, Lingjun Qian 2025-07-29
12306697 Scalable power delivery system Shawn Searles, Sanjay Pant, Ludmil Nikolov, Tiago Filipe Galhoz Patrao, Enrico Zanetti +1 more 2025-05-20
12282940 Advertisement title rewriting method, apparatus and device, and storage medium Jiangtao Feng, Han Li, Jiaze Chen, Yunbo Chen, Lei Li 2025-04-22
12276881 Light-emitting substrate, light-emitting module and display device Pei QIN, Yutao Hao, Donglei Li, Ying Chen, Honghao Yu +4 more 2025-04-15
12276807 Polarization sorting metasurface microlens array device Robert C. Devlin, Pawel Latawiec, John W. Graff, Anne Janet Milliez, Seyedali Forouzmand +2 more 2025-04-15
12279344 Method and apparatus for controlling light attributes of lighting device, and lighting system Ruojian Zhu, Chengbin Liu, Tianci ZHOU 2025-04-15
12231044 Power converter circuit for use with multiple low-current power rails Victor Zyuban, Jay B. Fletcher 2025-02-18
D1061446 Socket Longjie He, Feilong Zhou 2025-02-11
12219206 Analysis method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Hong-Seong Chang, Xin Yang, Tao Xu 2025-02-04
12215173 Kappa opioid receptor peptide amide ligands Subo Liao, Jun Yang, Jinliang Lv, Zongquan Liao, Jueyuan Gao +4 more 2025-02-04
12209873 Method and apparatus for unmanned vehicle dispatching management, device, storage medium and program Xiaoliang CONG, Yaling Zhang, Xiangyang Liu, Ming Li, Weinan Ma +2 more 2025-01-28
12182673 Compatible machine learning model generation within resource constraints Shuo Yang, Yuanjun Xiong, Wei Xia, Stefano Soatto 2024-12-31 $442,371,000
12164387 Hybrid data transfer model for virtual machine backup and recovery Yang Yang, Li Ding, Yiyao Wu 2024-12-10 $35,101,000
12160269 Bi-directional and multi-channel optical module with single transmitter and multiple receivers in single casing Jian-Hong Luo, Dong JIANG, Fu CHEN 2024-12-03
12155175 Laser with hexagonal semiconductor microdisk Bing Cao, Geng He, Qinhua Wang, Xianjie Xiong, Zhihao Yuan +3 more 2024-11-26
12129193 Processing apparatus for treating acid mine wastewater using activated carbon-loaded microorganism Houhu Zhang, Bing Ma, Jinglong Liu, Xiaochen LIN, Shenghu Zhang +1 more 2024-10-29
12112157 Firmware upgrade method and firmware upgrade system based on multi-stream transmission mode of DisplayPort interface Wen-Juan Ni, Tao Xu 2024-10-08
12112139 Vocabulary generation for neural machine translation Jingjing Xu, Chun Gan, Lei Li, Zaixiang Zheng 2024-10-08
12099182 Color wheel, light source system and display device Dayan Dai, Xia Song, Yi Li 2024-09-24
12081124 Regulator switch array Jay B. Fletcher, Nathan F. Hanagami, Sanjay Pant, Shawn Searles 2024-09-03 $189,878,000
12039027 Evaluating biometric authorization systems with synthesized images Xiang Xu, Jonathan Wu, Joseph Tighe 2024-07-16 $400,268,000