Inventor · Plymouth, MN, US

Yue Liu

123Patents
16h-index
155Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 15, 1999 → Aug 30, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9361912B1 High moment side shield design for area density improvement of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer Physics 84 Active
US9466319B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write shield design with minimized wide adjacent track erasure (WATE) Physics 80 Active
US6953291B2 Compact package design for vertical cavity surface emitting laser array to optical fiber cable connection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 67 Expired
US9299367B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer with minimized internal flux shunting Physics 60 Active
US10032469B2 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer with improved trailing shield design Physics 38 Active
US6404960B1 Flexible optic connector assembly Physics 33 Expired
US7331100B2 Process of manufacturing a seed/AFM combination for a CPP GMR device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US9875081B2 Device selection for providing a response Physics 30 Active
US9734845B1 Mitigating effects of electronic audio sources in expression detection Electricity 27 Active
US6909554B2 Wafer integration of micro-optics Physics 26 Expired
US10014021B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head with patterned leading shield Physics 24 Active
US8879208B1 Umbrella shield writer (UmSW) design for perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) Physics 21 Active
US9854155B1 Determining camera auto-focus settings Electricity 20 Active
US9754612B2 Areal density improvement of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head by tuning magnetic flux loops Physics 18 Active
US7075962B2 VCSEL having thermal management Electricity 18 Expired
US9430931B1 Determining user location with remote controller Physics 18 Active
US9697855B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head with multiple layer trailing shield Physics 14 Active
US9626577B1 Image selection and recognition processing from a video feed Physics 14 Active
US8031441B2 CPP device with an enhanced dR/R ratio Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Active
US10043069B1 Item recognition using context data Physics 12 Active
US10418054B1 Dual perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer base structures and mirror imaged asymmetrical magnetic core shapes for reduced writer-writer spacing (WWS) Physics 11 Active
US9355336B1 Recognizing text from frames of image data using contextual information Physics 11 Active
US9367736B1 Text detection using features associated with neighboring glyph pairs Physics 10 Active
US9269009B1 Using a front-facing camera to improve OCR with a rear-facing camera Physics 10 Active
US9082433B1 PMR writer with patterned shields for adjacent track erasure improvement Physics 10 Active

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