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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Zihao Yang — 23 Patents

Applied Materials: 17 patents #793 of 7,310Top 15%
CPChina University Of Petroleum—Beijing: 3 patents #68 of 416Top 20%
Huawei: 1 patents #8,318 of 15,535Top 55%
Santa Clara, CA: #672 of 9,301 inventorsTop 8%
California: #24,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Zihao Yang has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2020 and the most recent in December 2025. Zihao Yang ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Zihao Yang in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2020 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2023.peak 72020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 7 patents20232024: 7 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12491725 Media processing device and associated components for spool type detection and/or status Yongshun Liu, Zhikui Wang, Yunbo Yuan 2025-12-09
12317758 SNSPD with integrated aluminum nitride seed or waveguide layer Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Nir Yahav, Robert Jan Visser, Adi de la Zerda 2025-05-27
12249489 Optical device improvement Yue Chen, Jinyu LU, Yongmei Chen, Jinxin FU, Mingwei Zhu +6 more 2025-03-11
12185643 High critical temperature metal nitride layer with oxide or oxynitride seed layer Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan, Zhebo Chen +2 more 2024-12-31 $49,330,000
12148097 Methods and systems for 3D hand pose estimation from RGB images Yannick VERDIE, Deepak Sridhar, Steven George MCDONAGH, Juwei Lu 2024-11-19
12096701 Method of making high critical temperature metal nitride layer Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan, Zhebo Chen +2 more 2024-09-17 $46,375,000
12055821 Structure and method of bi-layer pixel isolation in advanced LCOS back-plane Lan Yu, Benjamin D. Briggs, Tyler Sherwood 2024-08-06 $90,312,000
12052935 Method of making high critical temperature metal nitride layer Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan, Zhebo Chen +2 more 2024-07-30 $79,851,000
11901484 Methods and systems for UV LED structures Mengnan ZOU, Mingwei Zhu, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Nag B. Patibandla 2024-02-13 $47,589,000
11901477 Light absorbing barrier for LED fabrication processes Fabio Pieralisi, Mingwei Zhu, Liang Zhao, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Hou T. Ng +1 more 2024-02-13 $47,589,000
11802349 Method for depositing high quality PVD films Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Yong Cao, Shumao ZHANG, Zhebo Chen +3 more 2023-10-31 $79,893,000
11788883 SNSPD with integrated aluminum nitride seed or waveguide layer Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Nir Yahav, Robert Jan Visser, Adi de la Zerda 2023-10-17 $42,568,000
11778926 Method and apparatus for deposition of multilayer device with superconductive film Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Ludovic Godet, Yong Cao, Daniel Lee Diehl +1 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11739418 Method and apparatus for deposition of metal nitrides Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Ludovic Godet, Yong Cao, Daniel Lee Diehl +1 more 2023-08-29 $78,061,000
11678589 Method of making high critical temperature metal nitride layer Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan, Zhebo Chen +2 more 2023-06-13 $42,513,000
11653576 SNSPD with integrated aluminum nitride seed or waveguide layer Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Nir Yahav, Robert Jan Visser, Adi de la Zerda 2023-05-16 $64,199,000
11600761 High critical temperature metal nitride layer with oxide or oxynitride seed layer Mingwei Zhu, Shriram Mangipudi, Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury, Shane Lavan, Zhebo Chen +2 more 2023-03-07 $32,704,000
D964204 Pendant 2022-09-20
11437559 Method and apparatus for deposition of multilayer device with superconductive film Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Ludovic Godet, Yong Cao, Daniel Lee Diehl +1 more 2022-09-06 $39,364,000
10961830 Waterless foam generator for fracturing shale oil and gas reservoirs and use thereof Qichao Lv, Rong Zheng, Tongke Zhou, Zhaoxia Dong, Juan Zhang +1 more 2021-03-30
10934467 Foam fracturing fluid with double interface layers of a phlogisticated air-liquid CO2 for shale gas production and preparation method thereof Qichao Lv, Tongke Zhou, Rong Zheng, Zhaoxia Dong, Haimin Zheng +3 more 2021-03-02
10886155 Optical stack deposition and on-board metrology Mingwei Zhu, Nag B. Patibandla, Daniel Lee Diehl, Yong Cao, Weimin Zeng +5 more 2021-01-05 $38,335,000
10793763 Ultra-dry three-phase flue gas foam for oil-gas fields and preparation method thereof Qichao Lv, Wenqi Shao, Juan Zhang, Zhaoxia Dong, Meiqin Lin +2 more 2020-10-06