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Wonchul Lee — 32 Patents

Samsung: 18 patents #7,545 of 75,807Top 10%
Lam Research: 12 patents #239 of 2,128Top 15%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Wonchul Lee has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Samsung. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in November 2025. Wonchul Lee ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Wonchul Lee in Seongnam-si, CA, KR.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2015.peak 52009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 5 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 1 patents20172019: 2 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12471735 Cooking appliance Gyu Seung Kim 2025-11-18
12449136 Cooking appliance Daekil KANG 2025-10-21
12426248 Semiconductor devices Sohyeon Bae, Jaehyun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Hyebin CHOI 2025-09-23
12417977 Semiconductor device and method of fabricating same In-Hyuk Choi, Joonhyoung Yang 2025-09-16
12408330 Semiconductor memory device Hosun Jung, Minwu KIM, Jungwoo Song 2025-09-02
12009299 Semiconductor device and method of fabricating same In-Hyuk Choi, Joonhyoung Yang 2024-06-11
11968823 Semiconductor memory devices having contact plugs Hyejin Seong, Dongsoo Woo 2024-04-23
11917812 Semiconductor devices Sohyeon Bae, Jaehyun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Hyebin CHOI 2024-02-27
11742212 Directional deposition in etch chamber Zhongkui Tan, Lisi Xie, Yoko Yamaguchi, Yasushi Ishikawa, Patrick Ponath +3 more 2023-08-29 $389,610,000
11670591 Semiconductor device and method of fabricating same In-Hyuk Choi, Joonhyoung Yang 2023-06-06
11329050 Semiconductor memory devices having contact plugs Hyejin Seong, Dongsoo Woo 2022-05-10
11195837 Semiconductor devices including support patterns Jae-Hoon Song, Kiheum Nam 2021-12-07
10901252 Display device JINGYU SIM, Kwangsun You, Dongjin Park, Junggil Oh, Byoungjin Jin +1 more 2021-01-26
10720435 Semiconductor devices including support patterns Jae-Hoon Song, Kiheum Nam 2020-07-21
10347641 Semiconductor devices Jihoon Kim 2019-07-09
10340277 Semiconductor devices including support patterns Jae-Hoon Song, Kiheum Nam 2019-07-02
9607848 Etch process with pre-etch transient conditioning Qian Fu, John Drewery 2017-03-28 $15,688,000
9530658 Continuous plasma etch process Qian Fu 2016-12-27 $21,314,000
9519576 Memory controller, method of operating the same and memory system including the same Youngil Seo, Jungho Yun, Dawoon Jung 2016-12-13
9379114 Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Jin Won Jeong 2016-06-28
9348708 Memory system performing address mapping according to bad page map Dawoon Jung, Jungho Yun, Min Chul Kim, Youngil Seo 2016-05-24
9257296 Etch process with pre-etch transient conditioning Qian Fu, John Drewery 2016-02-09 $11,583,000
9213598 Nonvolatile memory device and method of operating the same Youngil Seo, Jungho Yun, Dawoon Jung 2015-12-15
9142417 Etch process with pre-etch transient conditioning Qian Fu, John Drewery 2015-09-22 $17,799,000
9129902 Continuous plasma ETCH process Qian Fu 2015-09-08 $7,662,000