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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Rui Liang — 26 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
EMEmc: 4 patents #757 of 3,345Top 25%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
OPOpenlight Photonics: 1 patents #18 of 31Top 60%
TUTianjin University: 1 patents #190 of 762Top 25%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Qualcomm: 1 patents #7,593 of 12,104Top 65%
GCGd Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co.: 1 patents #50 of 126Top 40%
OCOcean University Of China: 1 patents #46 of 243Top 20%
Redmond, WA: #392 of 8,547 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,231 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Rui Liang has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2025. Rui Liang ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Rui Liang in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2024.peak 51998: 1 patents19982004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 5 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12355661 Convergence for time sensitive cloud applications Irena Atov, Somesh Chaturmohta 2025-07-08
12212615 Reducing setup time for online meetings Nagaswapna Bhamidipati, Xin HE, Milica JOVANOVIC, Artur Pawel KANIA, Namendra Kumar +11 more 2025-01-28
12158280 Control system of air conditioner and air-conditioning device Yuanyang LI, Jie Yan, Bin Luo 2024-12-03
12083560 Sorting-based garbage classification method and device Guanyi Chen, Junyu TAO, Beibei Yan, Yunan Sun, Zhanjun Cheng +4 more 2024-09-10
11949208 Degassing-free underwater dissolved carbon dioxide detection device and detection method Fupeng Wang, Qingsheng Xue, Jinghua Wu, Xijie Hao 2024-04-02
11924089 Convergence for time sensitive cloud applications Irena Atov, Somesh Chaturmohta 2024-03-05 $280,048,000
11916983 Reducing setup time for online meetings Nagaswapna Bhamidipati, Xin HE, Milica JOVANOVIC, Artur Pawel KANIA, Namendra Kumar +11 more 2024-02-27 $420,678,000
11755886 Passive positioning with radio frequency sensing labels Simone Merlin, Jamie Menjay Lin, Brian Michael Buesker, Daniel Hendricus Franciscus DIJKMAN, Farhad Ghazvinian Zanjani +5 more 2023-09-12 $10,226,000
11582275 Reducing setup time for online meetings Nagaswapna Bhamidipati, Xin HE, Milica JOVANOVIC, Artur Pawel KANIA, Namendra Kumar +11 more 2023-02-14 $225,543,000
11428646 Loss monitoring in photonic circuit fabrication Erik Johan Norberg, Benjamin M. Curtin, Jared Bauters 2022-08-30
11320167 Centralized control method and system for VRV air conditioning system, and computer readable storage medium Jie Yan, Qiang Li 2022-05-03
11252206 Reducing setup time for online meetings Nagaswapna Bhamidipati, Xin HE, Milica JOVANOVIC, Artur Pawel KANIA, Namendra Kumar +11 more 2022-02-15 $204,776,000
11113455 Web page rendering on wireless devices Aravind Seshadri, Anand Muthurajan, Jyh-Han Lin, Ke-Cheng Huang, Patrick Plaisted 2021-09-07 $230,668,000
10877099 Method and device for testing battery equalization circuit Qianhui ZHANG, Liguo Yan, Xingquan Qin, Zhongke Yang, Huigen YU +3 more 2020-12-29
D804786 Wedge heel Juan Liang 2017-12-12
9380000 Deploying and modifying a service-oriented architecture deployment environment model Srikanth Bhattiprolu, Xiang Cai, Jun Jie Nan, Piotr Przybylski 2016-06-28 $5,648,000
9380001 Deploying and modifying a service-oriented architecture deployment environment model Srikanth Bhattiprolu, Xiang Cai, Jun Jie Nan, Piotr Przybylski 2016-06-28 $5,648,000
9247008 Unified web service discovery Ranjith Narayanan, Srivatsa Srinivasan 2016-01-26 $35,526,000
8577895 Dynamic contacts list management Amit Gupta, Amritansh Raghav, Cindy Kwan, Dejun Zhou 2013-11-05 $39,616,000
8572710 Pluggable token provider model to implement authentication across multiple web services Ranjith Narayanan, Srivatsa Srinivasan 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8490119 Communication interface for non-communication applications Yiu-Ming Leung, Yu Shao, Marcelo Farjalla, Li Zhang, Danilo Perez Solano +1 more 2013-07-16 $16,054,000
7953819 Multi-protocol sharable virtual storage objects Jiannan Zheng, Mark K. Ku, Xiaoye Jiang, Sorin Faibish 2011-05-31 $27,691,000
7412496 Management of the file-modification time attribute in a multi-processor file server system Stephen Fridella, Gang Ma, Xiaoye Jiang, Sorin Faibish 2008-08-12 $274,585,000
6889292 Methods and apparatus for accessing data using a cache Jeffrey L. Alexander, Paul M. Bober 2005-05-03 $57,350,000
6766418 Methods and apparatus for accessing data using a cache Jeffrey L. Alexander, Paul M. Bober 2004-07-20 $41,050,000