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Ming Wang — 24 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 16 patents #193 of 3,180Top 7%
STSandisk Technologies: 8 patents #548 of 2,594Top 25%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Ming Wang has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in July 2025. Ming Wang ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Ming Wang in Shanghai, CA, CN.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2024.peak 62004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents20052013: 1 patents20132021: 2 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 5 patents20232024: 6 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12367940 Simultaneous lower tail verify with upper tail verify Yingying Zhu, Chao Xu, Liang Li 2025-07-22
12346562 Non-volatile memory bitmap for garbage collection Liang Li, Xuan Tian, Jiahui Yuan 2025-07-01
12307104 Non-volatile memory with secure erase Liang Li, Jiahui Yuan 2025-05-20
12283324 Array dependent voltage compensation in a memory device Ke Zhang, Liang Li 2025-04-22
12112814 Open block boundary group programming for non-volatile memory Ke Zhang, Liang Li 2024-10-08
12051473 Non-volatile memory with precise programming Liang Li 2024-07-30
11978507 Non-volatile memory with intentional overprogramming to improve short term data retention issue Liang Li, Ke Zhang 2024-05-07 $16,486,000
11972817 State look ahead quick pass write algorithm to tighten ongoing natural threshold voltage of upcoming states for program time reduction Ke Zhang, Liang Li 2024-04-30
11967383 Non-volatile memory with enhanced program operation for last state on slow plane Ke Zhang, Liang Li 2024-04-23 $17,856,000
11908524 Apparatus and methods for programming memory cells Liang Li, Ke Zhang 2024-02-20 $11,675,000
11817157 Systems and methods for detecting erratic programming in a memory system Liang Li, Shih-Chung Lee 2023-11-14
11790994 Non-volatile memory with reverse state program Liang Li, Jiahui Yuan 2023-10-17 $14,541,000
11587621 Foggy-fine programming for memory cells with reduced number of program pulses Liang Li, Bruce Li, Will Li, Yichen Wang 2023-02-21 $12,087,000
11568954 Technique to proactively identify potential uncorrectable error correction memory cells and countermeasure in field Liang Li 2023-01-31
11557346 Self-adaptive program pulse width for programming 3D NAND memory Liang Li, Xuan Tian 2023-01-17 $7,654,000
11335419 Erase technique for checking integrity of non-data word lines in memory device and corresponding firmware Liang Li, Qin Zhen 2022-05-17 $20,186,000
11309031 Periodic reduced word line bias which increases channel boosting Liang Li, Peng Zhang, Yanli Zhang 2022-04-19 $26,743,000
11309041 Smart erase verify test to detect slow-erasing blocks of memory cells Liang Li 2022-04-19 $26,743,000
11127467 Hybrid erase mode for high data retention in memory device Liang Li, Jun Wan 2021-09-21 $9,659,000
11120880 Command sequence for hybrid erase mode for high data retention in memory device Liang Li, Jun Wan 2021-09-14 $45,453,000
8605384 Disk drive performing lifetime logging of microactuator sensitivity Yanning Liu, Chuanwen Ji, Duc T. Phan 2013-12-10 $11,780,000
6961814 Disk drive maintaining a cache link attribute for each of a plurality of allocation states Gregory B. Thelin 2005-11-01 $5,621,000
6910099 Disk drive adjusting read-ahead to optimize cache memory allocation Gregory B. Thelin 2005-06-21 $9,569,000
6711635 Disk drive employing thresholds for cache memory allocation 2004-03-23 $3,356,000