Inventor · Albuquerque, NM, US

Michael B. Sinclair

40Patents
11h-index
67Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 30, 1995 → May 26, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6721094B1 Long working distance interference microscope Physics 186 Expired
US5757536A Electrically-programmable diffraction grating Physics 166 Expired
US5905571A Optical apparatus for forming correlation spectrometers and optical processors Physics 130 Expired
US6567715B1 Method and system for automated on-chip material and structural certification of MEMS devices Performing Operations; Transporting 54 Expired
US6967757B1 Microelectromechanical mirrors and electrically-programmable diffraction gratings based on two-stage actuation Physics 52 Expired
US5912738A Measurement of the curvature of a surface using parallel light beams Physics 26 Expired
US7034271B1 Long working distance incoherent interference microscope Physics 26 Expired
US8902115B1 Resonant dielectric metamaterials Electricity 25 Active
US7683310B1 Laser warning receiver to identify the wavelength and angle of arrival of incident laser light Physics 22 Active
US9374887B1 Single-resonator double-negative metamaterial Electricity 15 Active
US7449699B1 Method and apparatus for creating a topography at a surface Electricity 14 Active
US10054839B1 Nonlinear optical frequency conversion using metamaterial arrays Physics 10 Active
US9797836B1 Hyperspectral imaging flow cytometer Physics 9 Active
USD782408S1 Solar panel optic General 8 Active
US8981201B2 Self-ballasted apparatus for solar tracking Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US11498282B1 Computationally optimized and manufactured acoustic metamaterials Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US9685765B2 High quality-factor fano metasurface comprising a single resonator unit cell Electricity 5 Active
USD865659S1 Solar panel optic General 5 Active
US10128387B1 Optoelectronic apparatus enabled by dielectric metamaterials Electricity 5 Active
US9799798B1 Thermal emitter comprising near-zero permittivity materials Electricity 4 Active
US11195504B1 Additively manufactured locally resonant interpenetrating lattice structure Physics 3 Active
US7697134B1 Correlation spectrometer Physics 3 Active
US9732938B2 Illumination panel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9909233B1 Tunable infrared reflectance by phonon modulation Physics 3 Active
US9435934B2 Optics for solar concentrators Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active

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