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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Hongen Tu — 11 Patents

LELear: 3 patents #409 of 1,996Top 25%
Ford: 3 patents #4,990 of 17,473Top 30%
WUWayne State University: 2 patents #137 of 622Top 25%
General Motors: 2 patents #6,303 of 18,328Top 35%
NFNational Science Foundation: 1 patents #2 of 101Top 2%
San Francisco, CA: #4,061 of 26,999 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Hongen Tu has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lear. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in December 2025. Hongen Tu ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Hongen Tu in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2018.peak 22016: 1 patents20162018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202022: 1 patents20222024: 2 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12509026 System and method for cleaning sensors of autonomous vehicles Wesley Newhouse, Brian Gilbert, Devin Cass, Jason M. Seitz 2025-12-30
12296765 Electrical assembly Aric Anglin, Ajmal Imran Ansari, Greg Dickerhoof, Robert M. Schmidt, Rutunj Rai 2025-05-13
12128928 Autonomous vehicle data offload to download pole by free space optical link Min Wang, Ryan Suess, Kevin Lloyd Newman 2024-10-29
11858437 Electrical assembly Aric Anglin, Ajmal Imran Ansari, Greg Dickerhoof, Robert M. Schmidt, Rutunj Rai 2024-01-02 $8,343,000
11315429 System and method for providing an alert to a driver of a host vehicle Christian Balmaceda, Jagat J. Ghimire, David R. Mulligan 2022-04-26 $14,650,000
10807446 Illuminated window assemblies having light-diffusing elements Stuart C. Salter, Scott Holmes Dunham, Paul Kenneth Dellock 2020-10-20 $6,276,000
10724897 Cascaded gapped cantilever for low-frequency vibration sensing Yong Xu, Yating Hu 2020-07-28
10227556 Cell culture devices for biomimetic and pathomimetic cell cultures Bonnie F. Sloane, Yong Xu, Kyungmin Ji, Kamiar Moin, Kingsley Osuala 2019-03-12
10150352 Illuminated window assemblies having light-diffusing elements Stuart C. Salter, Scott Holmes Dunham, Paul Kenneth Dellock 2018-12-11 $4,232,000
9898142 Touch detection on a curved surface John Robert Van Wiemeersch 2018-02-20 $6,309,000
9269588 Method of making flexible, foldable, and stretchable devices Yong Xu, Eric G R Kim, Jessin K. John 2016-02-23