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World IP Day 2026 — Recognized Innovator
Seyeob
Kim
- Managing Director
- HiDeep Inc.
Recognized for over a decade of engineering leadership in South Korea’s touch and HMI industry. He is the inventive force behind 3D force touch, advanced stylus systems, and the platform inside today’s flagship devices.
Certificate of Recognition
Top IP Innovator — Touch & Human-Machine Interface · 2026
Hideep Patents (last 5 years)
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First Filing
US20130257526
USPTO Art Unit Focus
2626 / 2628 / 2625
Role
Managing Director
Presented by InspireIP
World IP Day Recognition Series · 2026
Patents Filed by HiDeep in Last 5 Years
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Filed in 2024 alone
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Recognition category
0 Touch & HMI
The Recognition
Turning a fingertip
into a precise input device
On World IP Day 2026, InspireIP recognises Seyeob Kim for his engineering leadership at Hideep Inc., a Seongnam-based fabless semiconductor company whose touch and human-machine interface technology is embedded in flagship devices worldwide. Under his technical direction, Hideep has built one of South Korea’s most prolific HMI patent portfolios.
This recognition celebrates the kind of applied inventorship that rarely gets named in public. It is the systems-level engineering behind sensor design, electromagnetic stylus communication, and controller silicon that helps turn Hideep from a fabless player into an HMI partner for global device makers.
Patent Footprint
A portfolio shaped around practical touch interaction
2020–2021
Public records show sustained Hideep activity around touch input devices, pressure-sensing circuits, and sensitivity-compensation methods, with Seyeob Kim repeatedly named as inventor.
2022
A deliberate step up — 14 patents in a single year, expanding into smartphone integration, image-capture interaction, and force-touch interaction patterns.
2023–2024
Peak activity. 44 filings across two years, with the portfolio expanding deeply into stylus pens, antenna modules, electromagnetic touch sensors, and touch-controller architectures.
2025–2026
Hideep continues filing into next-generation HMI — including the battery-less, digitiser-less stylus work reported in connection with major OEM partnerships, and on-cell touch sensor refinements.
Touch & HMI · Communications IP
A small-entity fabless filing like a much larger one
Hideep is classified by the USPTO as a Small Entity.
Yet its five-year filing volume sits well above what is typical for fabless touch and HMI companies of its size, with much of that activity concentrated in the communications art units that protect its underlying input technologies.
Patents in last 5 years
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Peak years (2023–24)
Fillings
USPTO entity status
Small Entity
Art unit focus
2625 / 2626 / 2628
"Most patent programs have a wall between the people running the company and the people on the drawings. The recognitions we value most are for the rare leaders who stay close to both sides: building the business while still shaping the product itself."
Sam Zellner
Founder, InspireIP · Inventor · Innovation Leader
About Hideep Inc.
Built in Seongnam,
shipping inside global devices
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea, Hideep Inc. is a fabless semiconductor and HMI solutions company. Its product range covers 2D and 3D touch controller chips, capacitive and pressure-sensing arrays, on-cell touch sensors, and stylus pen systems, much of which is protected by its patent portfolio.
Hideep’s technology has shipped inside flagship Android devices, with the company’s 3D Force Touch selected by Huawei for the P9 Plus. The company has also worked on next-generation stylus technology with one of the world’s largest smartphone makers. The sustained pace of filing helps make those OEM-scale partnerships more defensible.
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