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Wan-Chun Ma — 8 Patents

Google: 3 patents #8,096 of 22,993Top 40%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
UCUniversity Of Southern California: 2 patents #433 of 1,826Top 25%
Culver City, CA: #176 of 898 inventorsTop 20%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Wan-Chun Ma has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in May 2025. Wan-Chun Ma ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Wan-Chun Ma in Culver City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2020.peak 22012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents20142020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12307733 Learning illumination from diverse portraits Chloe LeGendre, Paul E. Debevec, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Christina Tong 2025-05-20
12165380 Deep light design Chloe LeGendre, Graham Fyffe, John Flynn, Jessica Lynn Busch, Paul E. Debevec 2024-12-10 $140,382,000
11288844 Compute amortization heuristics for lighting estimation for augmented reality Chloe LeGendre, Laurent Charbonnel, Christina Tong, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, Paul E. Debevec 2022-03-29 $86,271,000
11189084 Systems and methods for executing improved iterative optimization processes to personify blendshape rigs Chongyang Ma 2021-11-30 $158,099,000
10586380 Systems and methods for automating the animation of blendshape rigs Chongyang Ma 2020-03-10 $300,149,000
10573065 Systems and methods for automating the personalization of blendshape rigs based on performance capture data Chongyang Ma 2020-02-25 $147,233,000
8902232 Facial performance synthesis using deformation driven polynomial displacement maps Paul E. Debevec, Timothy S. Hawkins 2014-12-02
8134555 Acquisition of surface normal maps from spherical gradient illumination Paul E. Debevec, Timothy S. Hawkins 2012-03-13