Ke Sun, Ph.D.

Patent Agent

Ke Sun, Ph.D., is a registered Patent Agent at Henry Patent Law Firm, focusing on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. domestic and international patent applications.

Dr. Sun previously worked at a large international law firm, where he handled patent prosecution work for global technology companies, including one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers.

Dr. Sun’s areas of technical expertise include general electrical engineering, semiconductor devices and processing, nanomaterials, energy conversion and storage, electrochemistry, biosensors, and machine learning algorithms.

He is fluent in Mandarin.

Prior to entering the field of patent law, Dr. Sun was post-doctoral fellow of chemistry and chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology, where he pioneered the development of stable and efficient artificial photosynthetic systems which convert and store solar energy in the form of chemical bonds based on semiconductor photoelectrochemistry. His postdoc work has been highlighted by Nature Energy, MIT Technology Review, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Dr. Sun performed his doctoral work in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California-San Diego, where he investigated the synthesis and characterization of nanowire arrays and explored their application in biosensors, energy harvesting and conversion devices.

Dr. Sun has given multiple invited presentations at international conferences, as well as several invited seminars at universities and private companies. He also currently holds two U.S. patents and has authored several highly-cited, peer-reviewed journal publications.