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Alan Cheng — 56 Patents

PTPraxair Technology: 38 patents #11 of 1,036Top 2%
Medtronic: 6 patents #1,624 of 6,367Top 30%
UTUnion Carbide Industrial Gases Technology: 3 patents #10 of 95Top 15%
INInventec: 3 patents #194 of 1,270Top 20%
UMUnited Microelectronics: 2 patents #1,942 of 4,560Top 45%
The Johns Hopkins University: 1 patents #1,989 of 4,416Top 50%
UCUnion Carbide: 1 patents #697 of 1,402Top 50%
Redwood City, CA: #97 of 5,061 inventorsTop 2%
California: #6,620 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Alan Cheng has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Praxair Technology. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in April 2025. Alan Cheng ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Alan Cheng in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2001.peak 61989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents1991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921993: 2 patents1994: 4 patents1995: 3 patents19951996: 1 patents1997: 2 patents1998: 3 patents19981999: 4 patents2000: 1 patents2001: 6 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 2 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112014: 3 patents2015: 3 patents2020: 2 patents20202022: 2 patents2023: 2 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12280255 Surgical tools and methods for delivering a neurostimulator into the pterygopalatine fossa Tom Luhrs, Ryan Powell, Jennifer Teng 2025-04-22
12220586 Cardiac event sensing in an implantable medical device Jian Cao 2025-02-11
12137924 Surgical system and methods Jian Cao, Zhongping Yang 2024-11-12 $35,278,000
11678897 Surgical system and methods Jian Cao, Zhongping Yang 2023-06-20 $85,833,000
11559690 Ventricular assist system and method Jian Cao, Hai Huang 2023-01-24 $40,340,000
11478641 Surgical tools and methods for delivering a neurostimulator into the pterygopalatine fossa Tom Luhrs, Ryan Powell, Jennifer Teng 2022-10-25
11357988 Cardiac event sensing in an implantable medical device Jian Cao 2022-06-14 $50,819,000
10744468 System and method for feeding gas into liquid Yeu-Chuan Simon Ho, Balazs Hunek 2020-08-18
10576288 Cardiac event sensing in an implantable medical device Jian Cao 2020-03-03 $47,644,000
9101780 Automatic external defibrillator for implatable cardiac defibrillator patients undergoing procedures involving electromagnetic interference Henry R. Halperin 2015-08-11
8973283 System and method for solvent recovery in a batch fluidized bed process Arup Nandi, John Fredric Billingham 2015-03-10 $87,784,000
8938979 Method for lyophilization using cryogenic refrigeration system 2015-01-27 $88,385,000
8820097 Method and system for regulating the mixture of cryogen liquid and warm gas for a controlled rate cryogenic chiller or freezing system Yeu-Chuan Simon Ho, Ying Zhou 2014-09-02 $45,581,000
8794013 Method and system for nucleation control in a controlled rate freezer (CRF) Ying Zhou, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Nigel Grinter, Yeu-Chuan Simon Ho, Robert Sever 2014-08-05 $17,058,000
8794012 Method and system for controlled rate freezing of biological material 2014-08-05 $17,058,000
8015841 Cryogenic refrigeration system for lyophilization 2011-09-13 $17,492,000
7461649 Portable gas operating inhaler Stephan Gamard, Bryan R. Bielec, Royce S. Fishman 2008-12-09 $66,233,000
D556753 Network appliance Chaucer Chiu 2007-12-04
7279319 Method and apparatus for injecting oxygen into fermentation processes 2007-10-09 $47,327,000
D539243 Television Chaucer Chiu, Lulu Ma 2007-03-27
D533147 Receiving and sending box of TV wireless Chaucer Chiu, Caroline Zhang 2006-12-05
7048262 Method and apparatus for injecting oxygen into fermentation processes 2006-05-23 $62,396,000
6622496 External loop nonfreezing heat exchanger Donald Leonard DeVack 2003-09-23 $15,057,000
6505472 Cryogenic condensation system Simon Ho 2003-01-14 $29,511,000
6500765 Method for manufacturing dual-spacer structure Chia-Hung Kao 2002-12-31 $1,042,000