Inventor · Chappaqua, NY, US

Eric G. Lean

17Patents
10h-index
37Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 22, 1975 → May 13, 2002

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.