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Heng Wu — 168 Patents

IBM: 161 patents #258 of 70,183Top 1%
TETessera: 3 patents #129 of 271Top 50%
ASAdeia Semiconductor Solutions: 2 patents #9 of 57Top 20%
ETElpis Technologies: 2 patents #16 of 121Top 15%
Santa Clara, CA: #23 of 9,301 inventorsTop 1%
California: #807 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,910 of 4,157,543Top 1%
168 Patents All Time
Heng Wu has been granted 168 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in September 2025. Heng Wu ranks #4,910 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.12%). Patent records list Heng Wu in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 37 patents in 2021.peak 372018: 8 patents20182019: 31 patents20192020: 19 patents20202021: 37 patents20212022: 18 patents20222023: 20 patents20232024: 22 patents20242025: 13 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 168 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12433020 Multi-VT solution for replacement metal gate bonded stacked FET Ruqiang Bao, Dechao Guo, Junli Wang 2025-09-30
12402408 Stacked FETS including devices with thick gate oxide Ruilong Xie, Julien Frougier, Nicolas Loubet, Junli Wang, Ruqiang Bao +2 more 2025-08-26
12389609 Circuit architecture using transistors with dynamic dual functionality for logic and embedded memory drivers Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie, Kangguo Cheng, Min Gyu Sung, Chanro Park 2025-08-12
12382682 Gate-all-around nanosheet-FET with variable channel geometries for performance optimization Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie, Chen Zhang, Alexander Reznicek 2025-08-05
12369379 Nanosheet transistor Kangguo Cheng, Juntao Li, Peng Xu 2025-07-22
12356685 Looped long channel field-effect transistor Ruilong Xie, Ardasheir Rahman, Hemanth Jagannathan, Robert R. Robison, Brent A. Anderson 2025-07-08
12349457 Stacked transistors having bottom contact with replacement spacer Kangguo Cheng, Ruilong Xie, Julien Frougier 2025-07-01
12349445 Vertically integrated semiconductor device Junli Wang, Teresa J. Wu, Tenko Yamashita 2025-07-01
12322652 Local interconnect for cross coupling Ruilong Xie, Albert M. Chu, Albert M. Young, Junli Wang, Brent A. Anderson 2025-06-03
12310090 CMOS top source/drain region doping and epitaxial growth for a vertical field effect transistor Ruilong Xie, Su Chen Fan, Jay William Strane, Hemanth Jagannathan 2025-05-20
12283298 Magnetoresistive random access memory with data scrubbing Krishna Thangaraj, Eric Raymond Evarts 2025-04-22
12274089 Stacked FET sidewall strap connections between gates Chen Zhang, Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie 2025-04-08
12268016 Buried power rail formation for vertical field effect transistors Ruilong Xie, Junli Wang, Brent A. Anderson, Chen Zhang, Alexander Reznicek 2025-04-01
12178137 In-array magnetic shield for spin-transfer torque magneto-resistive random access memory Dimitri Houssameddine, Saba Zare, Karthik Yogendra 2024-12-24 $24,905,000
12176416 Stacked nanosheet transistor with defect free channel Lan Yu, Kangguo Cheng, Chen Zhang 2024-12-24 $24,905,000
12176434 Strained semiconductor FET devices with epitaxial quality improvement Ruilong Xie, Alexander Reznicek, Lan Yu 2024-12-24 $24,905,000
12153821 Analog persistent circuit for storage access monitoring Krishna Thangaraj, Eric Raymond Evarts 2024-11-26 $25,600,000
12142599 Stacked transistor structure with reflection layer Teresa J. Wu, Tenko Yamashita, Junli Wang 2024-11-12 $15,831,000
12142526 Stacked device with buried interconnect Ruilong Xie, Chen Zhang, Julien Frougier, Alexander Reznicek 2024-11-12 $15,831,000
12127482 Multi-state SOT-MRAM structure Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Jingyun Zhang 2024-10-22 $22,450,000
12119341 Electrostatic discharge diode having dielectric isolation layer Huimei Zhou, Julien Frougier, Xuefeng Liu, Jingyun Zhang, Lan Yu +2 more 2024-10-15 $17,235,000
12108692 Three terminal phase change memory with self-aligned contacts Tian Shen, Kevin W. Brew, Jingyun Zhang 2024-10-01 $16,240,000
12087770 Complementary field effect transistor devices Ruilong Xie, Julien Frougier, Chen Zhang, Kangguo Cheng 2024-09-10 $19,991,000
12016251 Spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory stack Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Ruilong Xie 2024-06-18 $16,708,000
12002874 Buried power rail contact Junli Wang, Ruilong Xie, Brent A. Anderson, Chen Zhang 2024-06-04 $14,788,000