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Yong Cao — 105 Patents

Applied Materials: 49 patents #164 of 7,310Top 3%
UNUniax: 14 patents #1 of 16Top 7%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 7 patents #1,810 of 12,129Top 15%
DDDupont Displays: 4 patents #3 of 51Top 6%
STSouth China University Of Technology: 4 patents #51 of 947Top 6%
STSilicon Touch Technology: 4 patents #6 of 33Top 20%
Huawei: 3 patents #4,080 of 15,535Top 30%
ETEmerson Climate Technologies: 3 patents #74 of 353Top 25%
DPDell Products: 3 patents #1,932 of 6,820Top 30%
Google: 3 patents #8,096 of 22,993Top 40%
CCCalb Technology Co.: 2 patents #9 of 39Top 25%
University of California: 2 patents #4,561 of 18,278Top 25%
CCCalb Co.: 2 patents #18 of 70Top 30%
RSRealtek Semiconductor: 1 patents #915 of 1,741Top 55%
HCHefei Gotion High-Tech Power Energy Co.: 1 patents #4 of 21Top 20%
Air Products And Chemicals: 1 patents #1,147 of 1,997Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #13,163 of 4,157,543Top 1%
105 Patents All Time
Yong Cao has been granted 105 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in December 2025. Yong Cao ranks #13,163 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.32%). Patent records list Yong Cao in Lo Wu, CA, CN.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 105 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12500449 Wireless charging apparatus and terminal using same Qinbin Liu, Ce Liu, Wenmiao Shu, Yanding Liu, Pilin Wang 2025-12-16
12470057 Power protection apparatus and terminal using the apparatus Xingyi Liu, Yanding Liu, Ce Liu, Pilin Wang 2025-11-11
12308790 Photovoltaic power conversion apparatus Chengchen Liang, Zhangrui CHEN, Mingyuan Zhang, Dong Chen, Yanzhong Zhang 2025-05-20
12288887 Case having a thermal barrier layer for a single cell Ya ZHANG, Yong Wang, Zhihong Lin, Qian Cheng 2025-04-29
D1072774 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Shane Lavan, Madan Kumar Shimoga Mylarappa, Sundarapandian Ramalinga Vijayalakshmi REDDY, Avinash NAYAK, Wei Dou +2 more 2025-04-29
12183560 Gas injection process kit to eliminate arcing and improve uniform gas distribution for a PVD process Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Shane Lavan, Sundarapandian Ramalinga Vijayalakshmi REDDY, Randal Dean Schmieding 2024-12-31 $49,330,000
12185500 Graphene thermally conductive gasket edge-wrapped process and edge-wrapped graphene thermally conductive gasket Aixiang Sun, Shangqiang Yang, Xichang He, Lanyue Dou, Xiaoyan Zhou 2024-12-31
12185643 High critical temperature metal nitride layer with oxide or oxynitride seed layer Zihao Yang, Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan +2 more 2024-12-31 $49,330,000
12176205 Method and chamber for backside physical vapor deposition Chunming Zhou, Jothilingam Ramalingam, Kevin Moraes, Shane Lavan 2024-12-24 $95,614,000
12155083 Battery module Xiaoyuan Du, Keqiang Cheng, Qixin Guo 2024-11-26
12142478 Method and chamber for backside physical vapor deposition Chunming Zhou, Jothilingam Ramalingam, Kevin Moraes, Shane Lavan 2024-11-12 $39,712,000
D1049166 CD player Jianfeng Lv 2024-10-29
12096701 Method of making high critical temperature metal nitride layer Zihao Yang, Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan +2 more 2024-09-17 $46,375,000
12052935 Method of making high critical temperature metal nitride layer Zihao Yang, Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan +2 more 2024-07-30 $79,851,000
12027354 Cleaning of SIN with CCP plasma or RPS clean Jothilingam Ramalingam, Ilya Lavitsky, Keith A. Miller, Tza-Jing Gung, Xianmin Tang +4 more 2024-07-02 $85,126,000
11984538 Thin-film white LED chip Ziming Chen, Xuanli Ye, Zhenchao Li 2024-05-14
D1019593 Speaker Jianfeng Lv 2024-03-26
11915918 Cleaning of sin with CCP plasma or RPS clean Jothilingam Ramalingam, Ilya Lavitsky, Keith A. Miller, Tza-Jing Gung, Xianmin Tang +4 more 2024-02-27 $57,915,000
11908696 Methods and devices for subtractive self-alignment He Ren, Hao Jiang, Mehul Naik, Wenting Hou, Jianxin Lei +1 more 2024-02-20 $66,055,000
11802349 Method for depositing high quality PVD films Zihao Yang, Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Shumao ZHANG, Zhebo Chen +3 more 2023-10-31 $79,893,000
11778926 Method and apparatus for deposition of multilayer device with superconductive film Mingwei Zhu, Zihao Yang, Nag B. Patibandla, Ludovic Godet, Daniel Lee Diehl +1 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11739418 Method and apparatus for deposition of metal nitrides Mingwei Zhu, Zihao Yang, Nag B. Patibandla, Ludovic Godet, Daniel Lee Diehl +1 more 2023-08-29 $78,061,000
11678589 Method of making high critical temperature metal nitride layer Zihao Yang, Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan +2 more 2023-06-13 $42,513,000
11664559 Battery module with jumper electrode connector, and insulating structure provided between jumper electrode connector and battery Keqiang Cheng, Xiaoyuan Du 2023-05-30
11600761 High critical temperature metal nitride layer with oxide or oxynitride seed layer Zihao Yang, Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan +2 more 2023-03-07 $32,704,000