Inventor · Hingham, MA, US

Michael Robert Watts

81Patents
17h-index
52Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 24, 2002 → Mar 8, 2023

Most-cited inventions

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US8988754B2 Optical phased arrays with evanescently-coupled antennas Physics 93 Active
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US7941014B1 Optical waveguide device with an adiabatically-varying width Physics 50 Active
US7616850B1 Wavelength-tunable optical ring resonators Physics 38 Active
US10627517B2 Optical phased arrays Physics 32 Active
US10338321B2 Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays Electricity 28 Active
US7667200B1 Thermal microphotonic sensor and sensor array Physics 28 Active
US10761272B2 Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays Electricity 25 Active
US7820970B1 Fabrication of thermal microphotonic sensors and sensor arrays Physics 25 Active
US10976491B2 Photonics interposer optoelectronics Electricity 20 Active
US7424181B2 Hitless switch for high-density integrated optics Electricity 19 Expired
US11150411B2 Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays Electricity 19 Active
US10613410B2 Large scale optical phased array Physics 19 Active
US7983517B1 Wavelength-tunable optical ring resonators Physics 17 Active
US7228015B2 Integrated optic polarization converter based on structural chirality Physics 17 Expired
US11372106B2 Optical phased arrays Physics 17 Active
US10101630B2 Optical waveguide device Physics 16 Active
US8755647B2 Methods and apparatus for vertical coupling from dielectric waveguides Physics 16 Active
US7343067B2 Precise and permanent modification of the resonant frequency of a dielectric microcavity and correction of frequency shifts in dielectric coupled-resonator filters Physics 11 Expired
US7072532B2 Wavelength insensitive integrated optic polarization splitter Physics 11 Expired
US8610994B1 Silicon photonics thermal phase shifter with reduced temperature range Physics 10 Active
US8615173B1 System for active control of integrated resonant optical device wavelength Electricity 9 Active
US9128308B1 Low-voltage differentially-signaled modulators Physics 9 Active
US11061140B2 Wavelength division multiplexed LiDAR Physics 8 Active

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