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Matthew E. Colburn — 173 Patents

IBM: 107 patents #506 of 70,183Top 1%
Meta: 45 patents #58 of 6,883Top 1%
University Of Texas System: 15 patents #100 of 6,559Top 2%
TETessera: 3 patents #129 of 271Top 50%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 1 patents #4,631 of 7,486Top 65%
Woodinville, WA: #5 of 1,504 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #84 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,638 of 4,157,543Top 1%
173 Patents All Time
Matthew E. Colburn has been granted 173 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in November 2025. Matthew E. Colburn ranks #4,638 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.11%). Patent records list Matthew E. Colburn in Woodinville, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 17 patents in 2011.peak 172002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 2 patents2005: 8 patents20052006: 6 patents2007: 7 patents2008: 10 patents20082009: 8 patents2010: 14 patents2011: 17 patents20112012: 9 patents2013: 10 patents2014: 8 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 8 patents20172018: 5 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 12 patents20202021: 14 patents2022: 8 patents2023: 10 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 173 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468084 Systems and methods of making polymeric optical layers for optical layering Marvin Dion Alim, Richard A. Farrell, Ankit Vora, Austin Lane 2025-11-11
12345887 Techniques for controlling overburden planarization Ankit Vora, Keren Zhang, Feyza Dundar Arisoy, Igor ABRAMSON 2025-07-01
12164140 Waveguide structure and outcoupling elements Guohua Wei, Qi Zhang, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2024-12-10 $1,808,949,000
12147043 Apparatus, system, and method for disposing photonic integrated circuits on surfaces Poer Sung, Guohua Wei, Tingling Rao, Lafe Joseph Purvis, II, Kimberly Kay Childress +2 more 2024-11-19 $849,182,000
12106963 Self aligned pattern formation post spacer etchback in tight pitch configurations Sean D. Burns, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Nelson Felix, Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy, Christopher J. Penny +2 more 2024-10-01 $10,915,000
11789186 Diffraction grating with a variable refractive index formed using an energy gradient Giuseppe Calafiore, Austin Lane 2023-10-17 $773,426,000
11780819 Aromatic substituted alkane-core monomers and polymers thereof for volume Bragg gratings Lafe Joseph Purvis, II, Austin Lane 2023-10-10 $461,574,000
11733647 Light-activated controlled radical polymerization Austin Lane 2023-08-22 $320,369,000
11718580 Fluorene derivatized monomers and polymers for volume Bragg gratings Austin Lane, Lafe Joseph Purvis, II 2023-08-08 $398,658,000
11709422 Gray-tone lithography for precise control of grating etch depth Elliott Franke, Nihar Mohanty, Ankit Vora, Austin Lane 2023-07-25 $414,086,000
11670510 Self aligned pattern formation post spacer etchback in tight pitch configurations Sean D. Burns, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Nelson Felix, Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy, Christopher J. Penny +2 more 2023-06-06 $11,771,000
11634528 Latent imaging for volume Bragg gratings Austin Lane 2023-04-25 $238,797,000
11592675 Corrective optics for reducing fixed pattern noise in head mounted displays Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier, Alexander Sohn 2023-02-28 $314,122,000
11579364 Gratings with variable depths formed using planarization for waveguide displays Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Nihar Mohanty 2023-02-14 $167,621,000
11561336 Transparent illumination layer with transparent waveguide structure Guohua Wei, Qi Zhang, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2023-01-24 $131,221,000
11455031 In-field illumination for eye tracking Robin Sharma, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Qi Zhang, Giuseppe Calafiore, John Michael Goward +4 more 2022-09-27 $227,632,000
11448806 Fabrication of self-aligned grating elements with high refractive index for waveguide displays Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Maxwell Parsons 2022-09-20 $158,917,000
11415880 Nanoimprint lithography material with switchable mechanical properties Austin Lane, Giuseppe Calafiore, Nihar Mohanty 2022-08-16 $251,777,000
11402578 Gratings with variable depths formed using planarization for waveguide displays Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Nihar Mohanty 2022-08-02 $157,559,000
11281008 Corrective optics for reducing fixed pattern noise in head mounted displays Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier, Alexander Sohn 2022-03-22 $260,563,000
11262495 Waveguides with high refractive index gratings manufactured by post-patterning infusion Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Maxwell Parsons 2022-03-01 $190,394,000
11249393 Nanoimprint lithography processes for switching mechanical properties of imprint materials Austin Lane, Giuseppe Calafiore, Nihar Mohanty 2022-02-15 $168,891,000
11249242 High refractive index gratings for waveguide displays manufactured by self-aligned stacked process Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Erik Shipton, Pasi Saarikko 2022-02-15 $168,891,000
11175455 Gratings with variable etch heights for waveguide displays Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Nihar Mohanty 2021-11-16 $218,201,000
11156913 Nanoimprint lithography process using low surface energy mask Austin Lane, Giuseppe Calafiore, Nihar Mohanty 2021-10-26 $157,110,000