Eric G. Lean
17Patents
10h-index
37Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 22, 1975 → May 13, 2002
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5021906A | Programmable air bearing slider including magnetic read/write element | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 122 | Expired |
| US6163038A | White light-emitting diode and method of manufacturing the same | Electricity | 72 | Expired |
| US4079404A | Self-aligning support structure for optical components | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US4156206A | Grating coupled waveguide laser apparatus | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US4329876A | Method and apparatus for acoustic scanning using bulk wave scattering of bulk waves by an acoustic grating | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US3994559A | Bidirectional guided mode optical film-fiber coupler | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US4322127A | Self-aligned plug connector for optical fibers | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5923110A | Spindle motor for optical disc drives | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US3996528A | Folded cavity injection laser | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6034797A | Prism-type objective lens for the pickup head of an optical disc drive capable of driving two types of optical discs | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6137637A | Prism-type objective lens for the pickup head of an optical disc drive capable of driving two types of optical discs | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US6404536B1 | Polarization independent tunable acousto-optical filter and the method of the same | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US4084189A | Acoustro-electric scanner by phonon echo phenomenon | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US4596479A | Dot matrix printer | Performing Operations; Transporting | 2 | Expired |
| US6834944B2 | Ink slots for providing ink to unilateral heaters | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Expired |
| US4084191A | Acousto-optical scanner | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US6701045B2 | Planar optical waveguide dense wavelength division multiplexer | Physics | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.