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Gary Mak — 13 Patents

CICiena: 7 patents #155 of 1,406Top 15%
Nortel Networks Limited: 4 patents #772 of 5,294Top 15%
Disney: 1 patents #4,015 of 6,686Top 65%
Meta: 1 patents #4,137 of 6,845Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #1,346 of 9,301 inventorsTop 15%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Gary Mak has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in April 2025. Gary Mak ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Gary Mak in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12283997 Reconfigurable optical receiver for use with multiple modulation techniques Tonmoy Shankar Mukherjee, Masaki Kato, Lenin Patra, Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan 2025-04-22
10411829 Apparatus for free-space optical communications at high data rates Kevin Michael Birnbaum, Kevin Jerome Quirk, Hamid Hemmati, Chien-Chung Chen 2019-09-10 $89,111,000
9577762 Subcarrier power balance control Mohammad Sotoodeh 2017-02-21 $6,630,000
9548812 Method and apparatus for sub-carrier frequency control Edgar Velez 2017-01-17 $31,740,000
9344307 Method and apparatus for sub-carrier frequency control Edgar Velez 2016-05-17 $3,928,000
9294200 Optimum modulator bias systems and methods in coherent optical transmitters Yves Beaulieu, Mohammad Sotoodeh 2016-03-22 $11,471,000
9124364 Quadrature power balance control in optical transmitters Mohammad Sotoodeh, Yves Beaulieu 2015-09-01 $7,440,000
9059805 Optimum modulator bias systems and methods in coherent optical transmitters Yves Beaulieu, Mohammad Sotoodeh 2015-06-16 $10,409,000
7945226 Method and circuit for adaptive automatic gain control 2011-05-17 $12,120,000
7483641 Optical hybrid 2009-01-27
6842561 Optical performance monitoring scheme Shiguang Guo, Eric Maniloff 2005-01-11 $19,176,000
6660990 Optical amplification and receiving system and method David W. Boertjes 2003-12-09 $41,395,000
6646790 Optical amplifier gain control monitoring Simon Parry, Eric Maniloff, Andy Rowland, Franz Mok 2003-11-11 $19,079,000