Ming Lai
37Patents
15h-index
18Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 28, 1991 → Nov 5, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6231566A | Method for scanning a pulsed laser beam for surface ablation | Human Necessities | 101 | Expired |
| US6952435B2 | Speckle free laser probe beam | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US6382795B1 | Method and apparatus for measuring refractive errors of an eye | Human Necessities | 83 | Expired |
| US6074411A | Multiple diode laser apparatus and method for laser acupuncture therapy | Human Necessities | 68 | Expired |
| US5329398A | Single grating laser pulse stretcher and compressor | Physics | 61 | Expired |
| US6179422A | Optical tracking device | Human Necessities | 51 | Expired |
| US7313155B1 | High power Q-switched laser for soft tissue ablation | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US6382794B1 | Method and apparatus for mapping a corneal contour and thickness profile | Human Necessities | 32 | Expired |
| US5825562A | Method of continuous motion for prolong usage of optical elements under the irradiation of intensive laser beams | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US5188980A | Inert gas purge for the multilayer poly gate etching improvement | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6859335B1 | Method of programmed displacement for prolong usage of optical elements under the irradiation of intensive laser beams | Human Necessities | 25 | Expired |
| US6382793B1 | Method and apparatus for measuring a wavefront | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7284862B1 | Ophthalmic adaptive-optics device with a fast eye tracker and a slow deformable mirror | Human Necessities | 23 | Expired |
| US5359410A | Complete diagnostics of ultrashort pulses without nonlinear process | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6406146B1 | Wavefront refractor simultaneously recording two hartmann-shack images | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6407872B1 | Optical path length scanner using moving prisms | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US5799025A | Self starting, self mode-locked lasers | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US6610049B2 | Customized laser ablation of corneas with solid state lasers | Human Necessities | 10 | Expired |
| US6786899B1 | Eye tracking employing a retro-reflective disk | Human Necessities | 10 | Expired |
| US6604825B2 | Hybrid tracking system | Human Necessities | 8 | Expired |
| US5251230A | Resonant cavity dither with index of refraction modulator | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US5367528A | Motion induced elimination of dead band in a short pulse laser gyro | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7003005B1 | Simplified laser oscillator-amplifier system | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US6757310B2 | Solid-state laser for customized cornea ablation | Human Necessities | 6 | Expired |
| US6367931B2 | Optical tracking based on a change in optical reflection across a reference mark on an object to be tracked | Human Necessities | 6 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.