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Hung-Wei Liu — 45 Patents

Micron: 17 patents #1,017 of 6,374Top 20%
YTYoung Lighting Technology: 9 patents #4 of 141Top 3%
COCoretronic: 8 patents #72 of 684Top 15%
Globalfoundries: 6 patents #578 of 4,424Top 15%
MCMacronix International Co.: 2 patents #519 of 1,241Top 45%
ATAvermedia Technologies: 1 patents #28 of 82Top 35%
Meridian, ID: #30 of 654 inventorsTop 5%
Idaho: #318 of 8,810 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Hung-Wei Liu has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Hung-Wei Liu ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Hung-Wei Liu in Meridian, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72003: 1 patents20032008: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 7 patents20222023: 6 patents2024: 4 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12432928 Vertical transistor, integrated circuitry, method of forming a vertical transistor, and method of forming integrated circuitry Vassil Antonov, Ashonita A. Chavan, Darwin Franseda Fan, Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar +5 more 2025-09-30
12418626 Docking device and method with video capturing function Shih-Heng Chen 2025-09-16
12256553 On-die formation of single-crystal semiconductor structures Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar, Sameer Chhajed 2025-03-18
12191354 Vertical transistors having at least 50% grain boundaries offset between top and bottom source/drain regions and the channel region that is vertically therebetween Manuj Nahar, Vassil Antonov, Kamal M. Karda, Michael Mutch, Jeffery B. Hull 2025-01-07
12113130 Transistor and methods of forming integrated circuitry Sameer Chhajed, Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar 2024-10-08 $26,633,000
12057493 Integrated circuitry, method used in the fabrication of a vertical transistor, and method used in the fabrication of integrated circuitry Masihhur R. Laskar, Jeffery B. Hull 2024-08-06 $38,187,000
11871582 Vertical transistor, integrated circuitry, method of forming a vertical transistor, and method of forming integrated circuitry Vassil Antonov, Ashonita A. Chavan, Darwin Franseda Fan, Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar +5 more 2024-01-09 $10,439,000
11860524 Projection device with high color purity Chien-Chung Liao 2024-01-02
11777011 Integrated circuitry, method used in the fabrication of a vertical transistor, and method used in the fabrication of integrated circuitry Masihhur R. Laskar, Jeffery B. Hull 2023-10-03 $10,230,000
11720009 Illumination system and projection device 2023-08-08
11688808 Transistor and methods of forming integrated circuitry Sameer Chhajed, Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar 2023-06-27 $8,383,000
11683937 On-die formation of single-crystal semiconductor structures Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar, Sameer Chhajed 2023-06-20 $16,908,000
11662599 Illumination system and projection device Chien-Chung Liao 2023-05-30
11637175 Vertical transistors Yi Fang Lee, Ning Lu, Anish A. Khandekar, Jeffery B. Hull, Silvia Borsari 2023-04-25 $16,156,000
11506962 Illumination system and projection device Chien-Chung Liao 2022-11-22
11417730 Vertical transistors with channel region having vertically elongated crystal grains that individually are directly against both of the top and bottom source/drain regions Manuj Nahar, Vassil Antonov, Kamal M. Karda, Michael Mutch, Jeffery B. Hull 2022-08-16 $9,745,000
11404571 Methods of forming NAND memory arrays Chris M. Carlson, Jie Li, Dimitrios Pavlopoulos 2022-08-02 $10,849,000
11387369 Semiconductor structure formation Shen Hu, Xiao Li, Zhiqiang Xie, Corey Staller, Jeffery B. Hull +2 more 2022-07-12 $18,742,000
11378875 Illumination system and projection apparatus Chien-Chung Liao 2022-07-05
11347140 Illumination system and projection device Chien-Chung Liao 2022-05-31
11264395 Vertical transistor, integrated circuitry, method of forming a vertical transistor, and method of forming integrated circuitry Vassil Antonov, Ashonita A. Chavan, Darwin Franseda Fan, Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar +5 more 2022-03-01 $21,169,000
11112684 Projection apparatus with illumination system having plurality of laser modules Chien-Chung Liao 2021-09-07
11024736 Transistor and methods of forming integrated circuitry Sameer Chhajed, Jeffery B. Hull, Anish A. Khandekar 2021-06-01 $25,615,000
11022867 Illumination system having wavelength conversion device and projection device having the same Chien-Chung Liao 2021-06-01
10854747 NAND memory arrays, devices comprising semiconductor channel material and nitrogen, and methods of forming NAND memory arrays Chris M. Carlson, Jie Li, Dimitrios Pavlopoulos 2020-12-01 $14,926,000