Yan Zhou
202Patents
27h-index
150Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 22, 1991 → May 23, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7391520B2 | Fourier domain optical coherence tomography employing a swept multi-wavelength laser and a multi-channel receiver | Physics | 255 | Expired |
| US7126693B2 | Simple high efficiency optical coherence domain reflectometer design | Physics | 141 | Expired |
| US7433046B2 | Patterned spinning disk based optical phase shifter for spectral domain optical coherence tomography | Physics | 86 | Active |
| US5583934A | DC level control for an electronic telephone line card | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US6144722A | System and method for programmable telephone subscriber line test in ring mode | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US7445335B2 | Sequential wavefront sensor | Physics | 57 | Active |
| US6115762A | PC wireless communications utilizing an embedded antenna comprising a plurality of radiating and receiving elements responsive to steering circuitry to form a direct antenna beam | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US7218809B2 | Integrated planar composite coupling structures for bi-directional light beam transformation between a small mode size waveguide and a large mode size waveguide | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US6058161A | System and method for programmable telephone subscriber line test | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US7815310B2 | Adaptive sequential wavefront sensor and its applications | Physics | 47 | Active |
| US5878133A | Digital direct current feed control for a communication system | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US6888989B1 | Photonic chip mounting in a recess for waveguide alignment and connection | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US10921612B2 | Spectacles and associated methods for presbyopia treatment and myopia progression control | Physics | 41 | Active |
| US8100530B2 | Optimizing vision correction procedures | Physics | 41 | Active |
| US6879757B1 | Connection between a waveguide array and a fiber array | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US7388672B2 | High efficiency balanced detection interferometer | Physics | 37 | Active |
| US7426328B2 | Varying refractive index optical medium using at least two materials with thicknesses less than a wavelength | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US7621636B2 | Working distance and alignment sensor for a fundus camera | Human Necessities | 36 | Active |
| US11187921B2 | Anti-myopia-progression spectacles and associated methods | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US7643719B1 | Superlens and a method for making the same | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US8454162B2 | Optimizing vision correction procedures | Physics | 34 | Active |
| US7303339B2 | Optical beam transformer module for light coupling between a fiber array and a photonic chip and the method of making the same | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US10083195B2 | System and method for composing a multidimensional index key in data blocks | Physics | 31 | Active |
| US7480059B2 | Optical coherence tomography for eye-length measurement | Human Necessities | 31 | Active |
| US8356900B2 | Large diopter range real time sequential wavefront sensor | Physics | 30 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.