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David S. Kuo — 115 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 101 patents #16 of 4,701Top 1%
WHWater Harvesting: 12 patents #2 of 9Top 25%
STSeagate Technologies: 1 patents #14 of 110Top 15%
Newark, CA: #3 of 939 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,723 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,885 of 4,157,543Top 1%
115 Patents All Time
David S. Kuo has been granted 115 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in November 2025. David S. Kuo ranks #10,885 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.26%). Patent records list David S. Kuo in Newark, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 115 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12472464 Atmospheric water harvester having subcooler heat exchanger Ievgen Kapustin, Kent D. Penning 2025-11-18
12420229 Low dew point air dehumidification system Ievgen Kapustin 2025-09-23
12390760 Atmospheric water harvester with high efficiency, and methods of using thereof Taber H. Smith, Ievgen Kapustin, Bruno Marchon, Faisal S. Maniar 2025-08-19
12372254 Heat pump-based water harvesting systems Ievgen Kapustin 2025-07-29
12343672 Atmospheric water harvesting system Ievgen Kapustin 2025-07-01
12227923 Refrigerator integrated with an atmospheric water harvesting unit, and methods of using thereof Bruno Marchon, Ievgen Kapustin 2025-02-18
12151199 Heat pump-based water harvesting systems, and methods of using thereof Ievgen Kapustin 2024-11-26
12098529 Atmospheric water harvester with climate-adjustable adsorbant properties Ievgen Kapustin, Bruno Marchon 2024-09-24
12098530 Water harvester adsorption enthalpy removal system Ievgen Kapustin, Kent D. Penning 2024-09-24
12054922 Refrigerator integrated with an atmospheric water harvesting unit, and methods of using thereof Bruno Marchon, Ievgen Kapustin 2024-08-06
11781295 Atmospheric water harvester with climate-adjustable adsorbant properties Ievgen Kapustin, Bruno Marchon 2023-10-10
11732295 Method to fabricate a nanochannel for DNA sequencing based on narrow trench patterning process XiaoMin Yang, Shuaigang Xiao, Koichi Wago, Thomas Young Chang 2023-08-22 $20,310,000
11714061 Fabrication of a nanochannel for DNA sequencing using electrical plating to achieve electrode gap XiaoMin Yang, Shuaigang Xiao, Kim Y. Lee, Koichi Wago, Thomas Young Chang 2023-08-01 $38,568,000
11644435 Vertical nanopore coupled with a pair of transverse electrodes having a uniform ultrasmall nanogap for DNA sequencing Shuaigang Xiao, XiaoMin Yang, Kim Y. Lee, Yautzong Hsu, Michael Feldbaum 2023-05-09 $11,089,000
11559762 Heat pump-based water harvesting systems, and methods of using thereof Ievgen Kapustin 2023-01-24
11542552 Fabrication of nanochannel with integrated electrodes for DNA sequencing using tunneling current Kim Y. Lee, Thomas Young Chang, Shuaigang Xiao, XiaoMin Yang, Koichi Wago 2023-01-03 $16,586,000
11536010 Atmospheric water harvester with climate-adjustable adsorbant properties Ievgen Kapustin, Bruno Marchon 2022-12-27
11396675 Method to amplify transverse tunneling current discrimination of DNA nucleotides via nucleotide site specific attachment of dye-peptide Thomas Young Chang, Philip L. Steiner, Kim Y. Lee 2022-07-26 $30,598,000
11320397 Nanostructures to control DNA strand orientation and position location for transverse DNA sequencing Thomas Young Chang, Kim Y. Lee, Koichi Wago 2022-05-03 $35,789,000
11136624 Fabrication of a wedge shaped electrode for enhanced DNA sequencing Kim Y. Lee, Thomas Young Chang, XiaoMin Yang, Shuaigang Xiao, Koichi Wago 2021-10-05 $35,513,000
10889857 Method to fabricate a nanochannel for DNA sequencing based on narrow trench patterning process XiaoMin Yang, Shuaigang Xiao, Koichi Wago, Thomas Young Chang 2021-01-12 $20,050,000
10844431 Nanofluidic channel opening size control using actuation Thomas Young Chang, Kim Y. Lee, Erik Jon Hutchinson 2020-11-24 $25,399,000
10761058 Nanostructures to control DNA strand orientation and position location for transverse DNA sequencing Thomas Young Chang, Kim Y. Lee, Koichi Wago 2020-09-01 $20,809,000
10752947 Method to amplify transverse tunneling current discrimination of DNA nucleotides via nucleotide site specific attachment of dye-peptide Thomas Young Chang, Philip L. Steiner, Kim Y. Lee 2020-08-25 $9,685,000
10731210 Fabrication of nanochannel with integrated electrodes for DNA sequencing using tunneling current Kim Y. Lee, Thomas Young Chang, Shuaigang Xiao, XiaoMin Yang, Koichi Wago 2020-08-04 $7,664,000