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Lawrence Yang — 10 Patents

VAValve: 8 patents #27 of 125Top 25%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Palo Alto, CA: #2,304 of 9,675 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Lawrence Yang has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Valve. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2024. Lawrence Yang ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Lawrence Yang in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2021.peak 31997: 1 patents19972020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12042718 Holding and releasing virtual objects Keith Bradner, Jeremy Slocum, Scott Douglas Nietfeld, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh 2024-07-23
11899491 System and method for timing synchronization Matthew J. Sherman, Mritunjay Sinha 2024-02-13
11625898 Holding and releasing virtual objects Keith Bradner, Jeremy Slocum, Scott Douglas Nietfeld, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh 2023-04-11
11465041 Force sensing resistor (FSR) with polyimide substrate, systems, and methods thereof Ian Campbell, Cheang Tad Yoo, Jeffrey Walter Mucha 2022-10-11
11294485 Sensor fusion algorithms for a handheld controller that includes a force sensing resistor (FSR) Scott Dalton, Jeffrey Peter Bellinghausen, Scott Douglas Nietfeld, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh, Ian Campbell +2 more 2022-04-05
11185763 Holding and releasing virtual objects Keith Bradner, Jeremy Slocum, Scott Douglas Nietfeld, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh 2021-11-30
10898797 Electronic controller with finger sensing and an adjustable hand retainer Walter Petersen, Philip Bryan, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Scott Douglas Nietfeld +4 more 2021-01-26
10888773 Force sensing resistor (FSR) with polyimide substrate, systems, and methods thereof Ian Campbell, Cheang Tad Yoo, Jeffrey Walter Mucha 2021-01-12
10691233 Sensor fusion algorithms for a handheld controller that includes a force sensing resistor (FSR) Scott Dalton, Jeffrey Peter Bellinghausen, Scott Douglas Nietfeld, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh, Ian Campbell +2 more 2020-06-23
5703502 Circuitry that detects a phase difference between a first, base, clock and a second, derivative, clock derived from the base clock Harsimran S. Grewal 1997-12-30 $77,514,000