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Stephen Zee — 12 Patents

Qualcomm: 9 patents #2,233 of 12,104Top 20%
ILId&C Limited: 3 patents #12 of 26Top 50%
San Francisco, CA: #3,683 of 26,999 inventorsTop 15%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Stephen Zee has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in October 2012. Stephen Zee ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Stephen Zee in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2010.peak 42007: 1 patents20072009: 3 patents20092010: 4 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 3 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8298847 MEMS devices having support structures with substantially vertical sidewalls and methods for fabricating the same Lior Kogut, Chun-Ming Wang, Chengbin Qui, Fan Zhong 2012-10-30
8270062 Display device with at least one movable stop element Manish Kothari, Sauri Gudlavalleti 2012-09-18 $17,140,000
8097174 MEMS device and interconnects for same Wonsuk Chung, Suryaprakash Ganti 2012-01-17 $9,326,000
8085458 Diffusion barrier layer for MEMS devices Hsin-Fu Wang, Ming-Hau Tung 2011-12-27 $22,580,000
7704773 MEMS devices having support structures with substantially vertical sidewalls and methods for fabricating the same Lior Kogut, Chengbin Qiu, Chun-Ming Wang, Fan Zhong 2010-04-27 $21,437,000
7706042 MEMS device and interconnects for same Wonsuk Chung, Suryaprakash Ganti 2010-04-27 $21,437,000
7660058 Methods for etching layers within a MEMS device to achieve a tapered edge Chengbin Qiu, Teruo Sasagawa, Ming-Hau Tung, Chun-Ming Wang 2010-02-09 $25,999,000
7652814 MEMS device with integrated optical element Fan Zhong, Chun-Ming Wang 2010-01-26 $30,766,000
7630114 Diffusion barrier layer for MEMS devices Hsin-Fu Wang, Ming-Hau Tung 2009-12-08
7601571 Methods of manufacturing interferometric modulators with thin film transistors Clarence Chui 2009-10-13
7580172 MEMS device and interconnects for same Alan G. Lewis, Manish Kothari, John Batey, Teruo Sasagawa, Ming-Hau Tung +1 more 2009-08-25 $80,758,000
7256922 Interferometric modulators with thin film transistors Clarence Chui 2007-08-14