Qi-Bin Bao
54Patents
25h-index
58Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 21, 1988 → Sep 20, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5047055A | Hydrogel intervertebral disc nucleus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 921 | Expired |
| US5192326A | Hydrogel bead intervertebral disc nucleus | Human Necessities | 842 | Expired |
| US6224630A | Implantable tissue repair device | Human Necessities | 755 | Expired |
| US5976186A | Hydrogel intervertebral disc nucleus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 695 | Expired |
| US5534028A | Hydrogel intervertebral disc nucleus with diminished lateral bulging | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 676 | Expired |
| US5800549A | Method and apparatus for injecting an elastic spinal implant | Human Necessities | 453 | Expired |
| US8788913B1 | Selection of erasure code parameters for no data repair | Electricity | 323 | Active |
| US7001431B2 | Intervertebral disc prosthesis | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 301 | Expired |
| US6280475A | Hydrogel intervertebral disc nucleus implantation method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 289 | Expired |
| US7077865B2 | Method of making an intervertebral disc prosthesis | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 142 | Expired |
| US5120121A | Colored lens | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US5034166A | Method of molding a colored contact lens | Physics | 109 | Expired |
| US7766965B2 | Method of making an intervertebral disc prosthesis | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 98 | Active |
| US5705780A | Dehydration of hydrogels | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 87 | Expired |
| US5522898A | Dehydration of hydrogels | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 84 | Expired |
| US8246655B2 | Intervertebral implant devices and methods for insertion thereof | Human Necessities | 79 | Active |
| US9216098B2 | Intervertebral disc space sizing tools and methods | Human Necessities | 59 | Active |
| US7713301B2 | Intervertebral disc prosthesis | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Active |
| US5263985A | Bone growth stimulator | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Expired |
| US8388684B2 | Artificial disc device | Human Necessities | 33 | Active |
| US8231676B2 | Motion preserving artificial intervertebral disc device | Human Necessities | 29 | Active |
| US8861527B1 | Network-assisted routing for topology-aware overlay networks | Electricity | 26 | Active |
| US8241360B2 | Artificial disc device | Human Necessities | 25 | Active |
| US8675672B1 | Hierarchical cluster tree overlay network | Electricity | 25 | Active |
| US8977660B1 | Multi-level distributed hash table for data storage in a hierarchically arranged network | Electricity | 25 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.