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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Sean Liu — 47 Patents

Google: 36 patents #374 of 22,993Top 2%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
BDBlack & Decker: 2 patents #1,439 of 2,745Top 55%
INInventec: 2 patents #293 of 1,270Top 25%
ITInventec (Pudong) Technology: 2 patents #136 of 568Top 25%
DPDell Products: 1 patents #4,883 of 6,855Top 75%
LSLogitech Europe S.A.: 1 patents #644 of 1,028Top 65%
NINanometrics Incorporated: 1 patents #69 of 127Top 55%
PUPrinceton University: 1 patents #543 of 1,197Top 50%
Sunnyvale, CA: #380 of 14,302 inventorsTop 3%
California: #8,880 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Sean Liu has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in October 2025. Sean Liu ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Sean Liu in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2015.peak 132009: 1 patents20092014: 5 patents2015: 13 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 7 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12452397 Multiview image creation system and method 2025-10-21
12174711 Method, device, and computer program product for determining data recovery duration Yina Huang, Piers Yu, Yunfei Chen, Jianhua Shao 2024-12-24
11973819 Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Karen Kavett 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11607096 Vacuum cleaner Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, Ashok Samuel Baskar 2023-03-21
11503194 Coupling system for a peripheral device Yoy Dai, Giuseppe Russo, Steven Ryutaro Takayama 2022-11-15 $35,083,000
D921368 Beater bar Derek Muir, Stephen Houghton 2021-06-08
10977305 Method and system for generating location-based playlists Andrew Theodore Wansley, Rita Chen 2021-04-13 $106,151,000
10747802 Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Karen Kavett 2020-08-18 $47,136,000
10452708 Method and system for generating location-based playlists Andrew Theodore Wansley, Rita Chen 2019-10-22 $32,890,000
10326687 Method for remote node discovery and communication channel validation and connection Richard K. Errickson, Michael P. Lyons, Peter K. Szwed 2019-06-18 $3,033,000
10320654 Method for remote node discovery and communication channel validation and connection Richard K. Errickson, Michael P. Lyons, Peter K. Szwed 2019-06-11 $1,829,000
10171522 Video commentary Nikhyl P. Singhal 2019-01-01
10061851 Encouraging inline person-to-person interaction Sara Su, Subramaniam Ganapathy, Jin Zhou, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Abigail Jones 2018-08-28 $29,084,000
10055462 Providing search results using augmented search queries Emily K. Moxley 2018-08-21 $25,241,000
9984155 Inline discussions in search results around real-time clusterings David Yen, Sagar Kamdar, Kumar Mayur Thakur, Yihua Wu, Anthony S. Hyatt 2018-05-29 $25,054,000
9836766 Customized landing pages Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan 2017-12-05 $16,818,000
9785979 Customized landing pages Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan 2017-10-10 $15,318,000
9720913 Automatic generation of snippets based on context and user interest Gunes Erkan, Doug Sherrets, Max Ventilla, Frances B. Haugen 2017-08-01 $11,442,000
9710472 Customized content consumption interface Doug Sherrets, Marco Paglia 2017-07-18 $16,660,000
9635400 Subscribing to video clips by source Doug Sherrets, Brett Rolston Lider 2017-04-25 $13,073,000
9591050 Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Karen Kavett 2017-03-07 $18,761,000
9542697 Customized landing pages Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan 2017-01-10 $13,766,000
9443228 Graphical user interface display which differentiates among participants in a group conversation Benjamin David Eidelson, Gregory Matthew Marra, Jason Prado, Fred Gilbert, Ye-Jeong Kim +4 more 2016-09-13 $16,731,000
9418121 Search results for descriptive search queries Emily K. Moxley 2016-08-16 $13,695,000
9286365 Data synchronizing system and method thereof 2016-03-15