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Ming Cai — 13 Patents

AVAvanex: 4 patents #18 of 269Top 7%
Caltech: 4 patents #683 of 4,321Top 20%
OIOclaro (North America Inc.): 2 patents #15 of 37Top 45%
OLOclaro Technology Limited: 2 patents #9 of 77Top 15%
Milpitas, CA: #409 of 3,192 inventorsTop 15%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Ming Cai has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Avanex. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in January 2019. Ming Cai ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Ming Cai in Milpitas, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10178948 Self operatable ophthalmic device Qingdi Liu 2019-01-15
8577192 Tunable optical filters with multiple ports Ruibo Wang, Ming-Chiang Wu, Xuefeng Yue 2013-11-05 $3,938,000
8503058 Etalon with temperature-compensation and fine-tuning adjustment Ruibo Wang, Ming-Rong Wu 2013-08-06 $1,966,000
8358466 Optical delay line interferometers with silicon dual mirror for DPSK Ruibo Wang 2013-01-22 $1,357,000
8294981 Optical amplifiers using switched filter devices Christopher Lin, Martin R. Williams 2012-10-23 $923,000
7603006 Optical switch having angle tuning elements and multiple-fiber collimators Xuehua Wu, Giovanni Barbarossa 2009-10-13
7286730 Optical switch having angle tuning elements and multiple-fiber collimators Xuehua Wu, Giovanni Barbarossa 2007-10-23 $2,111,000
7221818 Optical switch Xuehua Wu, Giovanni Barbarossa 2007-05-22 $4,717,000
7184623 Apparatus, system and method for an adiabatic coupler for multi-mode fiber-optic transmission systems Giovanni Barbarossa 2007-02-27 $7,951,000
6859582 Dual-wavelength hybrid waveguide coupler Kerry Vahala 2005-02-22
6741628 Micro-cavity laser Oskar Painter, Kerry Vahala, Peter C. Sercel 2004-05-25
6583399 Optical resonator microsphere sensor with altering Q-factor Guido Hunziker, Paul Bridger, Kerry Vahala 2003-06-24
6580851 Resonator fiber bidirectional coupler Kerry Vahala, Guido Hunziker 2003-06-17