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Kun Liu — 59 Patents

Merck: 47 patents #121 of 9,382Top 2%
SRScripps Research: 7 patents #111 of 1,293Top 9%
LYLycera: 5 patents #14 of 35Top 40%
ATAlectos Therapeutics: 5 patents #7 of 19Top 40%
SUSimon Fraser University: 1 patents #100 of 251Top 40%
ACAfton Chemical: 1 patents #130 of 222Top 60%
IPIomet Pharma: 1 patents #10 of 14Top 75%
Needham, MA: #12 of 796 inventorsTop 2%
Massachusetts: #847 of 88,656 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #40,067 of 4,157,543Top 1%
59 Patents All Time
Kun Liu has been granted 59 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in November 2025. Kun Liu ranks #40,067 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.96%). Patent records list Kun Liu in Needham, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 59 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12473273 Quinoline compounds and compositions for inhibiting EZH2 Xuedong Dai, Michael Dore, Xiang-Ju Justin Gu, Li Nan Li, Sing Yeung Mak +8 more 2025-11-18
12414952 Substituted amino triazolopyrimidine and amino triazolopyrazine adenosine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions and their use Zachary G. Brill, Amjad Ali, Jared N. Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng +10 more 2025-09-16
12371434 MLL1 inhibitors and anti-cancer agents Zhenting GAO, Haibing GUO, Ming Li, Chunliang Lu, Zhuming SUN +1 more 2025-07-29
12291688 Silicon-containing compounds for lubricants Sheng Jiang, Ashutosh Gupta 2025-05-06
12275729 Substituted tetrahydroquinolin compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Yongqi Deng, Abdelghani Achab, David Jonathan Bennett, Indu T. Bharathan, Xavier Fradera +8 more 2025-04-15
12263171 7-, 8-, and 10-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline derivatives as adenosine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions and their use Yonglian Zhang, Amjad Ali, Jared N. Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng +10 more 2025-04-01
12060357 9-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline derivatives as adenosine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions and their use Matthew A. Larsen, Amjad Ali, Jared N. Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng +11 more 2024-08-13 $234,312,000
11319283 Substituted cyclobutylbenzene compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Meredeth A. McGowan, Abdelghani Achab, Xavier Fradera, Yongxin Han, Derun Li +6 more 2022-05-03 $363,616,000
11312719 9-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline derivatives as adenosine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions and their use Matthew A. Larsen, Amjad Ali, Jared N. Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng +11 more 2022-04-26 $216,387,000
11111232 Substituted cyclobutylpyridine and cyclobutylpyrimidine compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Catherine White, Abdelghani Achab, Indu T. Bharathan, Xavier Fradera, Yongxin Han +7 more 2021-09-07 $168,031,000
11096930 Substituted imidazopyridine compounds as inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase and/or tryptophan-2,3-dioxygenase Phillip M. Cowley, Meredeth A. McGowan, Thomas J. Brown, Yongxin Han, Qinglin Pu +3 more 2021-08-24 $126,043,000
11053243 Inhibitors of hepatitis C virus replication Craig A. Coburn, Steven W. Ludmerer, Hao Wu, Richard Soil, Bin Zhong +1 more 2021-07-06 $119,175,000
11034661 Substituted N′-hydroxycarbamimidoyl-1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase IDO inhibitors Liangqin Guo, Yongxin Han, Shuwen He, Joseph A. Kozlowski, Ravi Nargund +6 more 2021-06-15 $253,758,000
10995085 Substituted biaryl compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Yongxin Han, Abdelghani Achab, Yongqi Deng, Xavier Fradera, Craig R. Gibeau +8 more 2021-05-04 $204,878,000
10988487 Substituted n′-hydroxycarbamimidoyl-1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Abdelghani Achab, Purakkattle Biju, Timothy A. Cernak, Yongqi Deng, Xavier Fradera +10 more 2021-04-27 $169,438,000
10927086 Substituted sulfoximine compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Dane Clausen, Liangqin Guo, Yongxin Han, Shuwen He, Joseph A. Kozlowski +4 more 2021-02-23 $566,829,000
10745364 Tetrahydronaphthyridine, benzoxazine, aza-benzoxazine and related bicyclic compounds for inhibition of RORgamma activity and the treatment of disease Thomas D. Aicher, Chad A. VanHuis, William D. Thomas, John MacLean, Brian M. Andresen +9 more 2020-08-18 $154,425,000
10689369 Substituted indazole compounds as RORgammaT inhibitors and uses thereof Blair T. Lapointe, Peter H. Fuller, Hakan Gunaydin, Mark E. Scott, B. Wesley Trotter +1 more 2020-06-23 $115,870,000
10647705 Substituted biaryl compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors Yongxin Han, Abdelghani Achab, Yongqi Deng, Xavier Fradera, Craig R. Gibeau +8 more 2020-05-12 $155,382,000
10584121 Heteroaryl substituted benzoic acids as RORgammaT inhibitors and uses thereof Hongjun Zhang, Kenneth J. Barr, Blair T. Lapointe, Hakan Gunaydin, B. Wesley Trotter 2020-03-10 $341,287,000
10538497 Compounds as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase inhibitors Yongxin Han, Abdelghani Achab, Purakkattle Biju, Yongqi Deng, Xavier Fradera +9 more 2020-01-21 $220,499,000
10344000 Substituted bicyclic pyrazole compounds as RORgammaT inhibitors and uses thereof Blair T. Lapointe, Peter H. Fuller, Hakan Gunaydin, Danielle F. Molinari, Qinglin Pu +3 more 2019-07-09 $88,734,000
10287272 Substituted indazole compounds as RORgammaT inhibitors and uses thereof Blair T. Lapointe, Peter H. Fuller, Hakan Gunaydin, Mark E. Scott, B. Wesley Trotter +1 more 2019-05-14 $81,943,000
10221142 Substituted pyrazole compounds as RORgammaT inhibitors and uses thereof Blair T. Lapointe, Peter H. Fuller, Hakan Gunaydin, Nunzio Sciammetta, Benjamin Wesley Trotter +5 more 2019-03-05 $69,271,000
10221146 Tetrahydronaphthyridine, benzoxazine, aza-benzoxazine and related bicyclic compounds for inhibition of RORgamma activity and the treatment of disease Thomas D. Aicher, Chad A. VanHuis, William D. Thomas, John MacLean, Brian M. Andresen +9 more 2019-03-05 $69,271,000