Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Wei H. Yao

176Patents
20h-index
260Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 24, 1998 → May 23, 2025

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8243027B2 Touch screen liquid crystal display Physics 286 Active
US7177066B2 Electrophoretic display driving scheme Physics 121 Expired
US8259078B2 Touch screen liquid crystal display Physics 117 Active
US8552989B2 Integrated display and touch screen Physics 107 Active
US8194031B2 Backlight control of electronic device Physics 104 Active
US8654083B2 Touch screen liquid crystal display Physics 76 Active
US8643595B2 Electrophoretic display driving approaches Physics 70 Active
US7825891B2 Dynamic backlight control system Physics 65 Active
US8432371B2 Touch screen liquid crystal display Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Active
US10395589B1 Hybrid microdriver architectures having relaxed comparator requirements Physics 50 Active
US8451244B2 Segmented Vcom Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US9244561B2 Touch screen liquid crystal display Physics 36 Active
US7497724B1 Cable connector assembly with improved wire organizer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Active
US6580572B1 Combination glide test/burnishing head and head suspension Physics 29 Expired
US9575610B2 Touch screen liquid crystal display Physics 27 Active
US9268429B2 Integrated display and touch screen Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US7435132B1 Cable connector assembly with improved grounding member Electricity 26 Active
US9024530B2 Synchronized ambient light sensor and display Physics 23 Active
US8213679B2 Method for moving targets tracking and number counting Physics 23 Active
US6473259B1 Disk head height control Physics 23 Expired
US8976133B2 Devices and methods for improving image quality in a display having multiple VCOMs Physics 20 Active
US6899456B2 Glide head for asperity detection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US6293135A Method of calibrating a system for detecting contact of a glide head with a recording media surface Physics 19 Expired
US7633015B2 Conforming, electro-magnetic interference reducing cover for circuit components Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active
US6272909A Glide height testing using a glide head apparatus with a piezoelectric actuator Physics 17 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.