Ashok Kumar
71Patents
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163Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 11, 1982 → Jul 25, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6066285A | Solid freeform fabrication using power deposition | Performing Operations; Transporting | 158 | Expired |
| US6216706A | Method and apparatus for producing reconstituted tobacco sheets | Human Necessities | 151 | Expired |
| US8336557B2 | Smokeless compressed tobacco product for oral consumption | Human Necessities | 37 | Active |
| US7192993B1 | Self-healing coating and microcapsules to make same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 34 | Expired |
| US7484560B2 | Process for enhanced recovery of crude oil from oil wells using novel microbial consortium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US8714163B2 | Smokeless compressed tobacco product for oral consumption | Human Necessities | 21 | Active |
| US5176807A | Expandable coil cathodic protection anode | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 16 | Expired |
| US7342057B2 | Self-healing coatings using microcapsules to suppress lead dust | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US4611175A | Pipe corrosion monitor | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US4445989A | Ceramic anodes for corrosion protection | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 8 | Expired |
| US8803264B1 | Room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic thin films and applications thereof | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US5292375A | Removal of lead based coating by vitrification | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 6 | Expired |
| US9416456B1 | Nano-hybrid structured regioregular polyhexylthiophene (RRPHTh) blend films for production of photoelectrochemical energy | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Active |
| US4625127A | High-fanout clock driver for low level gates | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US5130636A | Protective circuit for providing a reference voltage at a backplane | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US7942945B1 | CMP slurry for polymeric interlayer dielectric planarization | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US4946570A | Ceramic coated strip anode for cathodic protection | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 5 | Expired |
| US7377170B2 | System and method for the identification of chemical mechanical planarization defects | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US9443662B2 | Microstructured crystalline device in confined space, a dye-sensitized solar cell, and method of preparation thereof | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
| US5268548A | Microwave assisted paint stripping | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US9120952B2 | Polymeric microgels for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processing | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US9520888B1 | Integrated circuit device with on-board calibration of signal generator circuits, and related methods | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US7459467B2 | Manufacturing process for methyl phenidate and intermediates thereof | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 2 | Expired |
| US10544720B2 | System and method for managing contaminant storage in a storage catalyst | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US9492406B2 | Pharmaceutical composition | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.