Gerd Binnig
79Patents
15h-index
76Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 12, 1980 → Aug 11, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4343993A | Scanning tunneling microscope | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 200 | Expired |
| US6092422A | Mechanical signal producer based on micromechanical oscillators and intelligent acoustic detectors and systems based thereon | Physics | 125 | Expired |
| US6871199B1 | Processing of textual information and automated apprehension of information | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 108 | Expired |
| US5835477A | Mass-storage applications of local probe arrays | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 92 | Expired |
| US6079255A | Mechanically coupled alternatively usable cantilever structures for scanning a surface | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 49 | Expired |
| US6249747A | Investigation and/or manipulation device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
| US6792418B1 | File or database manager systems based on a fractal hierarchical index structure | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 34 | Expired |
| US4422002A | Piezo-electric travelling support | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US6397141B1 | Method and device for signalling local traffic delays | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6218086A | Method of forming ultrasmall structures and apparatus therefor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 24 | Expired |
| USRE33387E | Atomic force microscope and method for imaging surfaces with atomic resolution | General | 23 | Expired |
| US4550257A | Narrow line width pattern fabrication | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Expired |
| US5877497A | Data acquisition and control apparatus for scanning probe systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US5739425A | Cantilever with integrated deflection sensor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US6628452B2 | Optical devices | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6667467B2 | Microprobe and scanning probe apparatus having microprobe | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US4539089A | Method for depositing material with nanometer dimensions | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US7038996B2 | Method and apparatus for reading an array of thermal resistance sensors | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US4499737A | Method and dilution refrigerator for cooling at temperatures below 1.degree. K. | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 14 | Expired |
| US5808302A | Fine positioning apparatus with atomic resolution | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US7471614B2 | High density data storage medium | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US6950814B2 | Natural language processing methods and systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US5831153A | Investigation and/or manipulation device for a sample in fluid | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US8594410B2 | Context driven image mining to generate image-based biomarkers | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US8699769B2 | Generating artificial hyperspectral images using correlated analysis of co-registered images | Physics | 12 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.