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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Li Wan — 12 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 8 patents #829 of 4,722Top 20%
ZCZhuhai Seine Technology Co.: 1 patents #33 of 55Top 60%
Prior Lake, MN: #56 of 425 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #6,327 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Li Wan has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in March 2025. Li Wan ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Li Wan in Prior Lake, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2024.peak 32002: 1 patents20022019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12249357 Single-grain near-field transducer and process for forming same Michael C. Kautzky, Tong Zhao, Xiaolu Kou 2025-03-11
12110575 High strength and toughness die-casting aluminum alloy without heat treatment, preparation method and article thereof Hua-Feng Huang, Yu Zhu, Feng Yan, Yun Lin 2024-10-08
12057147 Thin-film crystalline structure with surfaces having selected plane orientations Tong Zhao, Michael C. Kautzky 2024-08-06 $134,673,000
11935567 Single-grain near-field transducer and process for forming same Michael C. Kautzky, Tong Zhao, Xiaolu Kou 2024-03-19 $44,406,000
11710506 Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with a near-field transducer having a multilayer near-field emitter Chubing Peng, Tae-Woo Lee 2023-07-25 $24,277,000
11664051 Heat-assisted recording head having mechanically robust subwavelength mirror with plasmonic liner Nan Zhou, Michael Allen Seigler, Yongjun Zhao, Huaqing Yin, Michael C. Kautzky 2023-05-30 $46,692,000
11508862 Thick-film conductive paste, and their use in the manufacture of solar cells Kuninori Okamoto, Haidong Liu, Yichao Ren, Changjun Xiong, Zhikai Xiong +2 more 2022-11-22
11423928 Processing for forming single-grain near-field transducer Michael C. Kautzky, Tong Zhao, Xiaolu Kou 2022-08-23 $24,568,000
11183215 Thin-film crystalline structure with surfaces having selected plane orientations Tong Zhao, Michael C. Kautzky 2021-11-23 $63,776,000
11107496 Near field transducers including platinum group alloys Tong Zhao, Martin Blaber 2021-08-31 $23,611,000
10394160 Toner cartridge and developing cartridge for image forming apparatus, and image forming apparatus Aiguo Yin, Chaohao Huang 2019-08-27
6335504 Apparatus for monitoring spot welding process and method of the same Shih-Fu Ling 2002-01-01