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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Ming-Jun Li — 336 Patents

CICorning Incorporated: 277 patents #2 of 3,890Top 1%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 18 patents #1,247 of 21,551Top 6%
CCCorning Optical Communications: 12 patents #48 of 532Top 10%
CDCorning Research & Development: 10 patents #23 of 440Top 6%
CSCorning Cable Systems: 5 patents #126 of 575Top 25%
Panasonic: 5 patents #5,184 of 21,108Top 25%
ITITRI: 2 patents #3,461 of 9,619Top 40%
UPUv Partners: 1 patents #10 of 18Top 60%
Nortel Networks Limited: 1 patents #2,518 of 5,294Top 50%
CUChina Jiliang University: 1 patents #26 of 133Top 20%
IRInstitute Of Metal Research: 1 patents #8 of 14Top 60%
BIBiota: 1 patents #4 of 21Top 20%
Harvard University: 1 patents #1,740 of 3,600Top 50%
TPTechnology Partners: 1 patents #74 of 201Top 40%
UPUniversity Of Pittsburgh: 1 patents #882 of 1,817Top 50%
Horseheads, NY: #1 of 378 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #48 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #993 of 4,157,543Top 1%
336 Patents All Time
Ming-Jun Li has been granted 336 US patents while listed as an inventor at Corning Incorporated. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in December 2025. Ming-Jun Li ranks #993 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.02%). Patent records list Ming-Jun Li in Horseheads, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 30 patents in 2019.peak 301993: 1 patents19931997: 1 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 2 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 4 patents2003: 8 patents20032004: 4 patents2005: 9 patents2006: 10 patents20062007: 11 patents2008: 13 patents2009: 15 patents20092010: 12 patents2011: 12 patents2012: 8 patents20122013: 15 patents2014: 15 patents2015: 17 patents20152016: 10 patents2017: 21 patents2018: 18 patents20182019: 30 patents2020: 20 patents2021: 18 patents20212022: 20 patents2023: 18 patents2024: 13 patents20242025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 336 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12492705 Water pump structure and rotor thereof En-Cheng Chang 2025-12-09
12422633 Laser printed lensed optical fibers and associated methods Jinxin Huang, Jie Liu, Ying Liu, Qi Wu, Lei Yuan 2025-09-23
12422613 Hollow-core optical fibers Paulo Clovis Dainese, JR., Wei Jiang, Xiaojun Liang, Dan Trung Nguyen, Ilia Andreyevich Nikulin 2025-09-23
12405425 Wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer using metamaterials for optical fiber communications Federico Capasso, Wei-Ting Chen, Paulo Clovis Dainese, JR., Kangmei Li, Jaewon Oh +1 more 2025-09-02
12298554 Anti-resonant hollow core optical fiber and methods of making Richard Michael Fiacco, Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Jeffery Scott Stone, Matthew Artus Tuggle 2025-05-13
12267106 Frequency domain method and system for measuring modal bandwidth, chromatic dispersion, and skew of optical fibers Xin Chen, Kangmei Li 2025-04-01
12248192 Rollable optical fiber ribbon with low attenuation, large mode field diameter optical fiber and cable Dana Craig Bookbinder, Pushkar Tandon 2025-03-11
12222528 Surface illuminator having a line emitter and configured to disinfect a surface David W. Baarman, Boyd V. Hunter, Xiao Li, Stephan Lvovich Logunov 2025-02-11
12181716 Multicore optical fiber connector adapters Qi Wu 2024-12-31 $30,085,000
12169306 Mode multiplexer/demultiplexer using metamaterials for optical communication system, and optical communication Federico Capasso, Wei-Ting Chen, Paulo Clovis Dainese, JR., Kangmei Li, Jaewon Oh +1 more 2024-12-17 $62,155,000
12164143 Optical fibers for single mode and few mode VCSEL-based optical fiber transmission systems Scott Robertson Bickham, Xin Chen, Kangmei Li 2024-12-10 $27,053,000
12151964 Tension-based methods for forming bandwidth tuned optical fibers for bi-modal optical data transmission Xin Chen, Kangmei Li, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra 2024-11-26 $26,542,000
12147072 Optical transforming article Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Xiao Li, David John McEnroe, Robert Adam Modavis, Daniel Aloysius Nolan +4 more 2024-11-19 $39,935,000
12072529 Optical waveguides and methods for producing Venkatesh Botu, William James Miller 2024-08-27 $22,434,000
12055753 Reduced coating diameter chlorine-doped silica optical fibers with low loss and microbend sensitivity Scott Robertson Bickham, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Pushkar Tandon, Ruchi Tandon 2024-08-06 $19,892,000
12050339 Ultra-low-loss coupled-core multicore optical fibers Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Pushkar Tandon 2024-07-30 $21,520,000
11994712 Low loss and low dispersion optical fiber for data center optical communication John David Downie, Xiaojun Liang, Hui Su 2024-05-28 $14,223,000
11952305 Methods and systems for processing optical fiber Ravindra Kumar Akarapu, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Alan Deneka, Steven Akin Dunwoody, Kenneth Edward Hrdina +8 more 2024-04-09 $10,264,000
11919805 Carbon-doped silicon dioxide glass and methods of manufacturing thereof Yunfeng Gu, Nicolas LeBlond, Jeffery Scott Stone, Haitao Zhang 2024-03-05 $7,676,000
11891331 System and method for nitrogen doping of a glass article Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Haitao Zhang 2024-02-06 $9,285,000
11860408 Optical fiber for data centers Pushkar Tandon 2024-01-02 $10,894,000
11815713 Multicore fiber with exterior cladding region Gaozhu Peng 2023-11-14 $11,811,000
11801146 Artificial intervertebral disc Fang-Chieh Chang, Pei-I Tsai, Shih-Ping Lin, Chih-Chieh Huang, Hsin-Hsin Shen +1 more 2023-10-31
11796749 Rollable optical fiber ribbon with low attenuation, large mode field diameter optical fiber and cable Dana Craig Bookbinder, Pushkar Tandon 2023-10-24 $12,039,000
11782207 Single-mode optical fiber with thin coating for high density cables and interconnects Scott Robertson Bickham, Matthew Ryan Drake, Shandon Dee Hart, Joseph Edward McCarthy, Weijun Niu +1 more 2023-10-10 $9,902,000