Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Benjamin J. Vakoc

42Patents
17h-index
21Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 19, 1999 → Nov 9, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7538859B2 Methods and systems for monitoring and obtaining information of at least one portion of a sample using conformal laser therapy procedures, and providing electromagnetic radiation thereto Human Necessities 210 Active
US7872759B2 Arrangements and methods for providing multimodality microscopic imaging of one or more biological structures Physics 182 Active
US8289522B2 Arrangements and methods for providing multimodality microscopic imaging of one or more biological structures Physics 144 Active
US7418169B2 Apparatus for controlling at least one of at least two sections of at least one fiber Human Necessities 121 Active
US7889348B2 Arrangements and methods for facilitating photoluminescence imaging Physics 104 Active
US9087368B2 Methods and systems for optical imaging or epithelial luminal organs by beam scanning thereof Physics 52 Active
US8928889B2 Arrangements and methods for providing multimodality microscopic imaging of one or more biological structures Physics 44 Active
US7982879B2 Methods and systems for performing angle-resolved fourier-domain optical coherence tomography Physics 40 Active
US9060689B2 Apparatus, method and system for performing phase-resolved optical frequency domain imaging Physics 35 Active
US9375158B2 Systems and methods for providing beam scan patterns for high speed doppler optical frequency domain imaging Human Necessities 34 Active
US6097486A Fiber optic acoustic sensor array based on Sagnac interferometer Physics 32 Expired
US6282334A Large scale WDM/TDM sensor array employing erbium-doped fiber amplifiers Physics 26 Expired
US7920271B2 Apparatus and methods for enhancing optical coherence tomography imaging using volumetric filtering techniques Human Necessities 25 Active
US9178330B2 Apparatus and method for utilization of a high-speed optical wavelength tuning source Electricity 22 Active
US6034924A Folded sagnac sensor array Physics 18 Expired
US9330092B2 Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-accessible-medium for providing polarization-mode dispersion compensation in optical coherence tomography Physics 17 Active
US9441948B2 Apparatus, methods and storage medium for performing polarization-based quadrature demodulation in optical coherence tomography Physics 17 Active
US10426548B2 Methods and systems for providing electromagnetic radiation to at least one portion of a sample using conformal laser therapy procedures Human Necessities 16 Active
US6377391B1 Gain flattening with nonlinear Sagnac amplifiers Electricity 15 Expired
US6640027B2 Gain flattening tunable filter Electricity 14 Expired
US6667935B2 Apparatus and method for processing optical signals from two delay coils to increase the dynamic range of a sagnac-based fiber optic sensor array Physics 13 Expired
US7949019B2 Wavelength tuning source based on a rotatable reflector Electricity 12 Active
US9646377B2 Methods and systems for optical imaging or epithelial luminal organs by beam scanning thereof Physics 12 Active
US9186066B2 Apparatus for applying a plurality of electro-magnetic radiations to a sample Human Necessities 11 Active
US6466364B1 Gain flattening with nonlinear sagnac amplifiers Electricity 11 Expired

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