Inventor · Boxborough, MA, US

Qi-Bin Bao

54Patents
25h-index
58Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 21, 1988 → Sep 20, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.