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Mookyung Son — 16 Patents

Apple: 15 patents #2,200 of 18,612Top 15%
Cupertino, CA: #1,039 of 6,989 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Mookyung Son has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in July 2025. Mookyung Son ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Mookyung Son in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2019 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2020.peak 52019: 2 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12372828 Displays with direct-lit backlight units Daming Xu, Yufeng Yan, Qingbing Wang, Chenhua You, Rong Liu +3 more 2025-07-29
12013609 Displays with direct-lit backlight units Daming Xu, Yufeng Yan, Qingbing Wang, Chenhua You, Rong Liu +3 more 2024-06-18 $294,511,000
11803276 Force sensing architectures Dhaval Chandrakant Patel, Eugene C. Cheung, Pey-Jiun Ko, Po-Jui Chen, Robert W. Rumford +16 more 2023-10-31 $267,879,000
11592706 Displays with direct-lit backlight units Daming Xu, Yufeng Yan, Qingbing Wang, Chenhua You, Rong Liu +3 more 2023-02-28 $171,651,000
11526051 Displays with direct-lit backlight units Daming Xu, Wei Lv, Pee Khiam So, Wenyong Zhu, Rong Liu +6 more 2022-12-13 $195,063,000
11333924 Displays with direct-lit backlight units Wei Lv, Pee Khiam So, Wenyong Zhu, Daming Xu, Victor H. Yin +8 more 2022-05-17 $199,476,000
11221512 Displays with direct-lit backlight units and color conversion layers Rong Liu, Daming Xu, Jun Qi, Ling Han, Chenhua You +7 more 2022-01-11 $343,893,000
11009745 Displays with direct-lit backlight units including light-emitting diodes and encapsulant Rong Liu, Daming Xu, Joshua A. Spechler, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin +5 more 2021-05-18 $223,963,000
10901260 Displays with direct-lit backlight units Rong Liu, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin, Wei Lv, Joshua A. Spechler +15 more 2021-01-26 $257,028,000
10866458 Electronic device display with a backlight and control circuitry that corrects pixel data to reduce transition artifacts Shin-Ying Lu, Daming Xu, Suraj P. Gorkhali, Adria Fores Herranz, Heesang Suh +4 more 2020-12-15 $317,980,000
10852582 Electronic device display with a backlight Wenyong Zhu, Shan-Ting Hsu, Victor H. Yin, Daming Xu, Heesang Suh +1 more 2020-12-01 $185,955,000
10802336 Displays with direct-lit backlight units and light spreading structures Rong Liu, Ling Han, Daming Xu, Janos C. Keresztes, Joshua A. Spechler +6 more 2020-10-13 $241,153,000
10613389 Light-emitting diodes in displays with direct-lit backlight units Rong Liu, Edward H. Kang, Jun Qi, Pee Khaim So, Victor H. Yin +6 more 2020-04-07 $84,122,000
10571743 Electronic devices with backlit displays Byungsoo Ko, Daming Xu, Heesang Suh, Michael Tom, Shin-Ying Lu +3 more 2020-02-25 $96,466,000
10488705 Electronic devices with backlit displays Daming Xu, Heesang Suh, Wenyong Zhu, Victor H. Yin 2019-11-26 $106,937,000
10467982 Electronic devices with temperature-compensated displays Mahnaz Mohammadi, Adria Fores Herranz, Marc Albrecht, Alexander P. Yu, Ross Thompson +7 more 2019-11-05 $118,994,000