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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Hyojun Kim — 35 Patents

LG: 27 patents #1,472 of 26,165Top 6%
IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
RURubrik: 1 patents #204 of 335Top 65%
SFSeoul National University R&Db Foundation: 1 patents #847 of 2,771Top 35%
SHSk Hynix: 1 patents #3,115 of 4,849Top 65%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
Milpitas, CA: #115 of 3,192 inventorsTop 4%
California: #14,008 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Hyojun Kim has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at LG. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in September 2025. Hyojun Kim ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Hyojun Kim in Milpitas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2024.peak 62015: 2 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 5 patents20172018: 5 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 6 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12425275 Hybrid source-series termination driver with constant output swing Minsoo Choi, Hiep T. Pham, Chih-Wei Yao 2025-09-23
12291814 Laundry treating apparatus Hongjun Cho, Jongmin Lee, Hyunwoo Noh, Taewoong Kim 2025-05-06
12241197 Laundry treating apparatus Hongjun Cho, Jongmin Lee, Hyunwoo Noh, Taewoong Kim 2025-03-04
12157968 Dryer Hongjun Cho, Hyuksoo Lee, Yangguk Hwang, Hyeonjoong Kim, Oshin Kwon +2 more 2024-12-03 $13,000
12139838 Apparatus for treating laundry Hyeonjoong Kim, Hongjun Cho, Oshin Kwon, Yangguk Hwang, Hyuksoo Lee +1 more 2024-11-12 $8,000
12091810 Laundry treatment apparatus Hyeonjoong Kim, Seungjoon Kim, Minji Kim 2024-09-17 $10,000
12084802 Apparatus for treating laundry Hongjun Cho, Hyeonjoong Kim, Oshin Kwon, Yangguk Hwang, Hyuksoo Lee +1 more 2024-09-10 $10,000
11920287 Clothes dryer configured for motor cooling Hyuksoo Lee, Hongjun Cho, Yangguk Hwang, Hyeonjoong Kim, Oshin Kwon +2 more 2024-03-05 $9,000
11885536 Clothes treating apparatus and method for controlling same Cheolsoo Ko 2024-01-30 $12,000
11549208 Apparatus for treating laundry Hongjun Cho, Hyeonjoong Kim, Oshin Kwon, Yangguk Hwang, Hyuksoo Lee +1 more 2023-01-10 $14,000
11387835 Phase-locked loop capable of compensating power noise Deog-Kyoon Jeong 2022-07-12
11293134 Clothes treatment apparatus Sogkie Hong, Cheolsoo Ko, Hyeonjoong Kim 2022-04-05 $16,000
10951710 Cache migration management in a virtualized distributed computing system Lawrence Y. Chiu, Paul H. Muench, Sangeetha Seshadri 2021-03-16 $6,230,000
10877934 Efficient backup of compaction based databases Rajath Subramanyam, Pin Zhou, Prasenjit Sarkar, Rohit Shekhar 2020-12-29
10793994 Clothes treatment apparatus Sogkie Hong, Cheolsoo Ko, Hyeongjoong Kim 2020-10-06 $23,000
10661214 Laundry treating apparatus Sokgie Hong 2020-05-26 $10,000
10601919 Cache migration management in a virtualized distributed computing system Lawrence Y. Chiu, Paul H. Muench, Sangeetha Seshadri 2020-03-24 $1,716,000
10364521 Operating method for washing machine Sangheon Lee, Heakyung Yoo, Deokkyu Kim, Sunku Kwon, Jaewon Chang +4 more 2019-07-30 $15,000
10041204 Clothes treating apparatus Youngsuk Kim, Sangwook Hong 2018-08-07 $30,000
9909249 Laundry treating apparatus Sangwook Hong, Youngsuk Kim 2018-03-06 $39,000
9903067 Laundry machine Byeongjo Ryoo 2018-02-27 $49,000
9891824 Sub-block input/output (I/O) commands for storage device including byte stream buffer David D. Chambliss, Lawrence Y. Chiu 2018-02-13 $2,196,000
9882984 Cache migration management in a virtualized distributed computing system Lawrence Y. Chiu, Paul H. Muench, Sangeetha Seshadri 2018-01-30 $2,622,000
9702073 Washing machine Sangwook Hong, Cheolsoo Ko, Heakyung Yoo 2017-07-11 $45,000
9683325 Clothes treating apparatus Youngsuk Kim, Sangwook Hong 2017-06-20 $85,000