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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Li-wei He — 54 Patents

Microsoft: 45 patents #416 of 40,388Top 2%
NUNorth China Electrical Power University: 5 patents #12 of 310Top 4%
Ebay: 2 patents #1,016 of 2,086Top 50%
HTHuazhong University Of Science And Technology: 1 patents #389 of 1,292Top 35%
SNSnowflake: 1 patents #352 of 448Top 80%
Overall (All Time): #46,969 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time
Li-wei He has been granted 54 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in May 2025. Li-wei He ranks #46,969 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Li-wei He in Beijing, WA, CN.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2007.peak 82000: 1 patents20002002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 8 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 7 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 6 patents2012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192024: 2 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12306872 Metadata tag identification Dingxian Wang, Hongxu Chen, Guandong Xu 2025-05-20
11989164 Data dictionary metadata for marketplace listings Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Robert K. Chao, Joyce Lam, Xinyue Liu, Subramanian Muralidhar +6 more 2024-05-21 $91,548,000
11966440 Metadata tag identification Dingxian Wang, Hongxu Chen, Guandong Xu 2024-04-23 $48,856,000
10500618 Apparatus and method for remediating trichloroethylene-polluting soils by integrated rotated migration and PRB Hongwei Lu, Lixia Ren, Yizhong Chen, Jing Li 2019-12-10
10014086 Integrated method and apparatus for remediation of uranium-contaminated soils Hongwei Lu, Lixia Ren 2018-07-03
9563939 De-noising system for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints and de-noising method thereof Tianxu Zhang, Zheng WANG, Li Liu, Xuan Hou, Chuan Zhang +2 more 2017-02-07
9460419 Structuring unstructured web data using crowdsourcing Yi-Chin Tu, Aleksey Sinyagin, Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Yi-Min Wang +2 more 2016-10-04 $46,434,000
9331887 Peer-aware ranking of voice streams Dinei Florencio, Xun Xu 2016-05-03 $30,562,000
9300912 Software based whiteboard capture solution for conference room meetings Puneet Taneja, Shiran Sathananthan, Eric A. Sather, Vivek Ramamoorthy, Anil Kommineni +1 more 2016-03-29 $42,787,000
8968550 Apparatus and method for cleaning chlorobenzenes-contaminated soil and groundwater Jiaqi Zhang, Shichao Sun, Xiaomeng Li, Hongwei Lu 2015-03-03
8926814 Apparatus and method for electrokinetic in-situ leaching remediation of soil Jiaqi Zhang, Shichao Sun, Hongwei Lu 2015-01-06
8857511 Method and apparatus for restoring contaminated groundwater Jing Shen, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhentong Li 2014-10-14
8650172 Searchable web site discovery and recommendation Yang Song, Scott K. Imig, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Nam H. Nguyen 2014-02-11 $53,117,000
8356086 Distributed non-negative matrix factorization Chao Liu, Hung-Chih Yang, Jinliang Fan, Yi-Min Wang 2013-01-15 $36,488,000
8200681 Collaborative media recommendation and sharing technique Rajesh Hedge, Zicheng Liu, Philip A. Chou, Christopher A. Meek 2012-06-12 $20,322,000
8085302 Combined digital and mechanical tracking of a person or object using a single video camera Cha Zhang, Yong Rui 2011-12-27 $13,493,000
8051362 Distributed data storage using erasure resilient coding Jin Li, Jian Liang 2011-11-01 $25,152,000
8041710 Automatic diagnosis of search relevance failures Wenzhao Tan, Jinliang Fan, Yi-Min Wang, Xiaoxin Yin 2011-10-18 $29,419,000
8005023 Client-side echo cancellation for multi-party audio conferencing Junlin Li, Dinei Florencio 2011-08-23 $12,314,000
7924655 Energy-based sound source localization and gain normalization Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Philip A. Chou, Minghua Chen 2011-04-12 $11,368,000
7912046 Automated NAT traversal for peer-to-peer networks Jin Li 2011-03-22 $15,289,000
7853886 Persistent spatial collaboration Steven M. Drucker, Aamer Hydrie, Rajesh K. Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang 2010-12-14 $21,634,000
7783075 Background blurring for video conferencing Cha Zhang, Yong Rui 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7770116 System and method for whiteboard and audio capture Zhengyou Zhang, Ross Cutler, Zicheng Liu, Anoop Gupta 2010-08-03 $11,892,000
7739715 Variable play speed control for media streams Adil Sherwani, Patrick N. Nelson, Richard William Saunders, Jonathan M. Cain, Anders E. Klemets 2010-06-15 $15,264,000