Kevin L. Lear
27Patents
13h-index
27Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 11, 1991 → Feb 24, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5493577A | Efficient semiconductor light-emitting device and method | Electricity | 221 | Expired |
| US5633527A | Unitary lens semiconductor device | Electricity | 155 | Expired |
| US5568499A | Optical device with low electrical and thermal resistance bragg reflectors | Electricity | 138 | Expired |
| US5625636A | Integration of photoactive and electroactive components with vertical cavity surface emitting lasers | Electricity | 105 | Expired |
| US5903590A | Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device | Electricity | 57 | Expired |
| US5726462A | Semiconductor structures having electrically insulating and conducting portions formed from an AlSb-alloy layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 50 | Expired |
| US8995485B2 | High brightness pulsed VCSEL sources | Electricity | 36 | Active |
| US8995493B2 | Microlenses for multibeam arrays of optoelectronic devices for high frequency operation | Electricity | 33 | Active |
| US9065239B2 | Multibeam array of top emitting VCSEL elements | Electricity | 28 | Active |
| US8830068B2 | Multi-sensor environmental and physiological monitor system and methods of use | Physics | 19 | Active |
| US6645848B2 | Method of improving the fabrication of etched semiconductor devices | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US8349605B1 | Optical analyte sensor | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US5397739A | Method for accurate growth of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US8455844B2 | System and method for time-division multiplexed optical sensing of biosensors | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US9739709B2 | Hydrocarbon sensing methods and apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Active |
| US9857299B2 | Hydrocarbon sensing methods and apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Active |
| US10615871B2 | High speed free-space optical communications | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US5379719A | Method of deposition by molecular beam epitaxy | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 4 | Expired |
| US9176059B2 | Optical analyte sensor | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US9232592B2 | Addressable illuminator with eye-safety circuitry | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US11075695B2 | Eye-safe optical laser system | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US10938476B2 | System for optical free-space transmission of a string of binary data | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US11121770B2 | Optical laser device | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US10175168B2 | Hydrocarbon sensing methods and apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
| US9671334B2 | Multi-analyte optical sensor | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.