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Kenneth Yen — 18 Patents

SISimplehuman: 18 patents #12 of 60Top 20%
Redondo Beach, CA: #64 of 1,594 inventorsTop 5%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Kenneth Yen has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Simplehuman. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in November 2024. Kenneth Yen ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Kenneth Yen in Redondo Beach, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2017.peak 42014: 2 patents20142016: 2 patents20162017: 4 patents20172018: 2 patents20182020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents20212023: 2 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12139328 Ultrasonic sensing trash can Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Orlando Cardenas, Michael James Basha +1 more 2024-11-12
12043480 Trash can assembly Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Orlando Cardenas, Michael James Basha +1 more 2024-07-23
11607088 Foaming soap dispensers Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Guy M. Cohen, Hon-Lun Chen, Nasser Pirshafiey +1 more 2023-03-21
11603263 Trash can assembly Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Orlando Cardenas, Michael James Basha +1 more 2023-03-14
11141026 Foaming soap dispensers Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Guy M. Cohen, Hon-Lun Chen, Nasser Pirshafiey +1 more 2021-10-12
11136186 Trash can assembly Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Orlando Cardenas, Michael James Basha +1 more 2021-10-05
10683165 Trash can assembly Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Orlando Cardenas, Michael James Basha +1 more 2020-06-16
10588467 Foaming soap dispensers Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Guy M. Cohen, Hon-Lun Chen, Nasser Pirshafiey +1 more 2020-03-17
D829465 Liquid dispenser cartridge Frank Yang, Myk Lum, Adam Wade 2018-10-02
10076216 Foaming soap dispensers Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Guy M. Cohen, Hon-Lun Chen, Nasser Pirshafiey +1 more 2018-09-18
D801192 Trash bag Kevin P. Blasko, Beng Wong Liu 2017-10-31
9790025 Trash can with clutch mechanism Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Orlando Cardenas, Michael James Basha +1 more 2017-10-17
9751692 Dual sensing receptacles Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Guy M. Cohen, Frederick N. Bushroe, Perry Q. Anderson +6 more 2017-09-05
D785970 Soap pump head Frank Yang, Myk Lum, Adam Wade 2017-05-09
D773848 Liquid dispenser cartridge Frank Yang, Myk Lum, Adam Wade 2016-12-13
D770798 Soap pump Frank Yang, Myk Lum, Adam Wade 2016-11-08
8872459 Trash cans with variable gearing assemblies Frank Yang, Christopher Fruhauf, Michael James Basha, David Wolbert 2014-10-28
D699475 Soap pump Frank Yang, Myk Lum, Adam Wade, Kasin Chan 2014-02-18

Frequent Collaborators

Frank Yang17 shared
David Wolbert12 shared
Joseph Sandor10 shared
Michael James Basha8 shared
Christopher Fruhauf8 shared
Orlando Cardenas6 shared

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