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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Xiaofeng Fan — 75 Patents

Apple: 40 patents #741 of 18,612Top 4%
AIAptina Imaging: 10 patents #21 of 332Top 7%
Micron: 10 patents #1,568 of 6,374Top 25%
Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
ACAdvanced New Technologies Co.: 2 patents #309 of 845Top 40%
SUSaint Louis University: 2 patents #47 of 208Top 25%
SASharp Laboratories Of America: 1 patents #288 of 419Top 70%
ALAlibaba: 1 patents #1,069 of 2,313Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #469 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,914 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
Xiaofeng Fan has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in July 2025. Xiaofeng Fan ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list Xiaofeng Fan in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2017.peak 112009: 2 patents20092010: 5 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 6 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 9 patents2017: 11 patents20172018: 11 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12356740 Transistor integration with stacked single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel arrays Hong-Wei Lee, Cristiano L. Niclass, Shingo Mandai 2025-07-08
12274099 Dual embedded storage nodes and vertical transfer gates for pixels of global shutter image sensors Dajiang Yang, Hong-Wei Lee, Oray Orkun Cellek, Xiangli Li, Kai Shen 2025-04-08
12195791 Target enrichment via enzymatic digestion in next generation sequencing Adrian Michael Di Bisceglie 2025-01-14
12185018 Stacked electromagnetic radiation sensors for visible image sensing and infrared depth sensing, or for visible image sensing and infrared image sensing Gennadiy Agranov, Zachary M. Beiley, Andras Pattantyus-Abraham, Oray Orkun Cellek, Gershon Rosenblum +4 more 2024-12-31 $239,269,000
11271031 Back-illuminated single-photon avalanche diode Shingo Mandai, Cristiano L. Niclass, Nobuhiro Karasawa, Arnaud Laflaquiere, Gennadiy Agranov 2022-03-08 $181,377,000
11256756 Character string distance calculation method and device 2022-02-22
11121165 Image sensor with a cross-wafer capacitator Chiajen Lee 2021-09-14 $182,808,000
10951008 Creating arbitrary patterns on a 2-d uniform grid VCSEL array Chin Han Lin, Weiping Li 2021-03-16 $260,311,000
10943935 Methods for transferring charge in an image sensor Xiangli Li, Chung Chun Wan 2021-03-09 $320,530,000
10868813 Website login method and apparatus 2020-12-15
10762195 Protection and communication abstractions for web browsers Helen Wang, Collin Edward Jackson, Jonathan R. Howell, Zhenbin Xu 2020-09-01 $133,035,000
10721231 Website login method and apparatus 2020-07-21 $173,241,000
10700493 Creating arbitrary patterns on a 2-D uniform grid VCSEL array Chin Han Lin, Weiping Li 2020-06-30 $126,650,000
10658419 Stacked backside illuminated SPAD array Shingo Mandai, Cristiano L. Niclass, Nobuhiro Karasawa, Arnaud Laflaquiere, Gennadiy Agranov 2020-05-19 $120,639,000
10462402 Image sensor having full well capacity beyond photodiode capacity 2019-10-29 $145,858,000
10454241 VCSEL structure with embedded heat sink Tongbi Jiang, Weiping Li 2019-10-22 $134,663,000
10438987 Stacked backside illuminated SPAD array Shingo Mandai, Cristiano L. Niclass, Nobuhiro Karasawa, Arnaud Laflaquiere, Gennadiy Agranov 2019-10-08 $92,329,000
10411437 Creating arbitrary patterns on a 2-D uniform grid VCSEL array Chin Han Lin, Weiping Li 2019-09-10 $107,029,000
10295145 Top-emission VCSEL-array with integrated diffuser Neil MacKinnon, Weiping Li 2019-05-21 $75,437,000
10153614 Creating arbitrary patterns on a 2-D uniform grid VCSEL array Chin Han Lin, Weiping Li 2018-12-11 $115,928,000
10103512 VCSEL structure with embedded heat sink Tongbi Jiang, Weiping Li 2018-10-16 $96,757,000
10079487 Clamp circuit for electrical overstress and electrostatic discharge Xin Zhang, Junjun Li 2018-09-18 $166,822,000
10072815 Top-emission VCSEL-array with integrated diffuser Neil MacKinnon, Weiping Li 2018-09-11 $138,338,000
10026771 Image sensor with a cross-wafer capacitor Chiajen Lee 2018-07-17 $111,105,000
10019570 Protection and communication abstractions for web browsers Jiahe Helen Wang, Collin Edward Jackson, Jonathan R. Howell, Zhenbin Xu 2018-07-10 $63,082,000