Johnny Chen has been granted 185 US patents while listed as an inventor at Willis Electric Co. . The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in June 2025. Johnny Chen ranks #4,037 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.10%). Patent records list Johnny Chen in Taipei, CA, TW.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025 Bar chart with a peak of 21 patents in 2019. peak 21 1994: 1 patents 1994 1997: 1 patents 2000: 3 patents 2001: 2 patents 2001 2008: 1 patents 2009: 4 patents 2010: 3 patents 2010 2011: 6 patents 2012: 7 patents 2013: 16 patents 2013 2014: 12 patents 2015: 17 patents 2016: 15 patents 2016 2017: 12 patents 2018: 18 patents 2019: 21 patents 2019 2020: 11 patents 2021: 10 patents 2022: 11 patents 2022 2023: 5 patents 2024: 4 patents 2025: 5 patents 2025
Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–25 of 185 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
12338959
Decorative lighting strings and bulbs with light-emitting diodes
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2025-06-24
12331894
Modular lighted tree with trunk electrical connectors
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2025-06-17
12270518
Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly
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2025-04-08
12243529
Conversational agent response determined using a sentiment
Thomas L. Dean , Qiangfeng Peter Lau , Sudeep Gandhe , Gabriel Schine
2025-03-04
12228257
Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly
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2025-02-18
12173875
Decorative lighting with reinforced wiring
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2024-12-24
12000551
Modular lighted tree
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2024-06-04
11920750
Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly
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2024-03-05
11900938
Conversational agent response determined using a sentiment
Thomas L. Dean , Qiangfeng Peter Lau , Sudeep Gandhe , Gabriel Schine
2024-02-13
$89,356,000
11852327
Decorative lighting with reinforced wiring
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2023-12-26
11815235
Modular lighted tree
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2023-11-14
11808418
Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly
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2023-11-07
11808416
Decorative lighting string with vertically offset lighting structure
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2023-11-07
11578842
Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly
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2023-02-14
11533547
Communication node
Augusto P. Panella , Harold Keith Lang
2022-12-20
D972507
Light string reel with power adapter
Shu-Fa Shao , Chen Chen
2022-12-13
11490671
Combustion-resistant artificial tree
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2022-11-08
11423902
Conversational agent response determined using a sentiment
Thomas L. Dean , Qiangfeng Peter Lau , Sudeep Gandhe , Gabriel Schine
2022-08-23
$66,459,000
11419374
Modular lighted tree
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2022-08-23
11378238
Light string and light string circuits
Shu-Fa Shao
2022-07-05
11369159
Modular artificial lighted tree with decorative light string
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2022-06-28
11353176
Decorative lighting control
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2022-06-07
11306881
Tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly
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2022-04-19
11300273
Dual-color light strings
Shu-Fa Shao
2022-04-12
D945966
Light string power adapter
Shu-Fa Shao , Chen Chen
2022-03-15