Inventor · Dublin, CA, US

Ming Lai

37Patents
15h-index
18Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 28, 1991 → Nov 5, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.