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Ming Xu — 56 Patents

Apple: 41 patents #723 of 18,612Top 4%
ICIntegrated Optics Communications: 9 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
SUSiemens Medical Solutions Usa: 1 patents #807 of 227Top 360%
Cupertino, CA: #233 of 6,989 inventorsTop 4%
California: #6,620 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Ming Xu has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2025. Ming Xu ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Ming Xu in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 6 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 6 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 2 patents2021: 3 patents20212023: 3 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12387669 Display panel brightness control based on gaussian edges Mario Miscuglio, Yang Xu, Snehal T Jariwala, Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou +7 more 2025-08-12
12058916 Devices with displays having transparent openings and a diffractive layer Yue Cui, Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Shawn R. Gettemy 2024-08-06 $268,361,000
11882752 Electronic devices with through-display sensors Zhao-Jun Wang, Alexis G. Soyseven, David Hum, Graeme M. Williams, Ing-Jye Wang +6 more 2024-01-23 $290,302,000
11722590 Electronic devices with conductive tape Yu Zhang, Yu-Cheng Chen, David Hum, Yi Qiao 2023-08-08 $174,735,000
11650368 Electronic device with an optical coupling layer and diffractive layer Yi Qiao, David A. Doyle, James P. Landry, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Paul C. Kelley +4 more 2023-05-16 $320,384,000
11567311 Devices with displays having transparent openings Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Yue Cui 2023-01-31 $251,299,000
11003015 Electronic device with a light guiding layer Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Michael J. Brown, Tyler R. Kakuda 2021-05-11 $296,431,000
10991330 Split-screen driving of electronic device displays Jun Li, Hopil Bae, Chaohao Wang, Yue Jack Chu, Anshi Liang +2 more 2021-04-27 $300,345,000
10937987 Electronic devices having displays with tilted anodes Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Meng-Huan Ho, Rui Liu, Shawn R. Gettemy, Yi Qiao 2021-03-02 $266,805,000
10386572 Electronic device display with a backlight Ka Kuen Wan, Agnes Yena Lee, Alex D. Schlaupitz, David Hum, Shawn Patrick Hurley 2019-08-20 $106,570,000
10302844 Display with backlight recycling structures Cheng Chen, Hiroshi Osawa, Yu-Cheng Chen 2019-05-28 $54,822,000
10108049 Gray scale inversion reduction or prevention in liquid crystal displays Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Zhibing Ge, Cheng Chen, Young Bae Park, John Z. Zhong +2 more 2018-10-23 $108,278,000
9947259 Ambient light adaptive displays Jiaying Wu, Lu Zhang, Cheng Chen, Gabriel Marcu, Chaohao Wang +3 more 2018-04-17 $62,412,000
9940879 White point uniformity techniques for displays Shawn R. Gettemy, Joshua G. Wurzel, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, David A. Doyle 2018-04-10 $65,044,000
9804932 Method and device for processing data and electronic apparatus Dingpan Li, Yong Chen 2017-10-31
9612470 Display with column spacer structures Sang Un Choi, Zhibing Ge, Shang-Chih Lin, Hiroshi Osawa, Ton-Yong Wang 2017-04-04 $87,907,000
9612489 Placement and shape of electrodes for use in displays Cheng Chen, Shih Chang Chang, Shawn R. Gettemy, Mingxia Gu 2017-04-04 $87,907,000
9568772 Displays with elevated backlight efficiency Xinyu Zhu, Jun Qi, Meizi Jiao, Nicholas G. Roland, Victor H. Yin +3 more 2017-02-14 $78,066,000
9478157 Ambient light adaptive displays Jiaying Wu, Lu Zhang, Cheng Chen, Gabriel Marcu, Chaohao Wang +3 more 2016-10-25 $74,258,000
9441829 Portable electronic device Daniel W. Jarvis, Adam Mittleman, Ching Yu John Tam 2016-09-13 $80,175,000
9368077 Systems and methods for adjusting liquid crystal display white point using column inversion Zhibing Ge, Shih Chang Chang, Cheng Chen, Hopil Bae, Shawn R. Gettemy +1 more 2016-06-14 $73,547,000
9366899 Display with color mixing prevention structures Shawn R. Gettemy, Young Cheol Yang, Zhibing Ge, Cheng Chen 2016-06-14 $73,547,000
9245487 Systems and methods for reducing loss of transmittance due to column inversion Zhibing Ge, Shih Chang Chang, Cheng Chen, Hopil Bae, Shawn R. Gettemy +1 more 2016-01-26 $52,781,000
9195331 Common electrode connections in integrated touch screens Cheng-Ho Yu, Zhibing Ge, Shih Chang Chang 2015-11-24 $118,614,000
9047826 Systems and methods for liquid crystal display column inversion using reordered image data Zhibing Ge, Shih Chang Chang, Cheng Chen, Hopil Bae, Shawn R. Gettemy +1 more 2015-06-02 $78,914,000