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Xinbing Liu — 57 Patents

Sumitomo Electric Industries: 37 patents #315 of 21,551Top 2%
Panasonic: 14 patents #1,678 of 21,108Top 8%
University of Michigan: 4 patents #497 of 4,352Top 15%
EIElectro Scientific Industries: 2 patents #102 of 314Top 35%
Ann Arbor, MI: #84 of 6,071 inventorsTop 2%
Michigan: #724 of 86,293 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
Xinbing Liu has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sumitomo Electric Industries. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in November 2015. Xinbing Liu ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list Xinbing Liu in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2004.peak 111997: 2 patents19972000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 8 patents2003: 6 patents20032004: 11 patents2005: 6 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 5 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9188712 Transparent illumination panel and method of manufacturing 2015-11-17
8709219 Structured diamond tool made by focused ion beam nanomachining 2014-04-29
8491353 Mold for optical components Hidenao Kataoka, Christian F. Greig 2013-07-23
8338745 Apparatus and methods for drilling holes with no taper or reverse taper 2012-12-25
8167469 Surface light emitting apparatus emitting laser light Janet Milliez 2012-05-01 $60,000
8016449 Surface light emitting apparatus emitting laser light Janet Milliez, Kouki Ichihashi 2011-09-13 $51,000
7788998 Precision machining system and methods Jon Ethington 2010-09-07 $105,000
7773216 Composite sheet material selection method for use in ultra-fast laser patterning Chen-Hsiung Cheng 2010-08-10 $103,000
7674719 Via hole machining for microwave monolithic integrated circuits Ming-Jun Li, Hiroyuki Sakai, Masaaki Nishijima, Daisuke Ueda 2010-03-09 $208,000
7614831 Machining tools having concave cutting surfaces for precision machining and methods of manufacturing such Jon Ethington 2009-11-10 $268,000
7587110 Multicore optical fiber with integral diffractive elements machined by ultrafast laser direct writing Rajminder Singh, Satoshi Yamauchi, Ming-Jun Li, Jimmy Jia, Tetsuo Ohara 2009-09-08 $394,000
7532791 Ultrafast laser machining system and method for forming diffractive structures in optical fibers Jimmy Jia, Ming-Jun Li, Rajminder Singh, Tetsuo Ohara 2009-05-12 $244,000
7508116 Method and apparatus for vibration machining with two independent axes 2009-03-24 $275,000
7505499 Slab laser amplifier with parasitic oscillation suppression Craig First 2009-03-17 $305,000
7436423 Apparatus and method of making a grayscale photo mask and an optical grayscale element Yosuke Mizuyama 2008-10-14 $350,000
7376307 Multimode long period fiber bragg grating machined by ultrafast laser direct writing Rajminder Singh, Ming-Jun Li, Jimmy Jia, Tetsuo Ohara 2008-05-20 $836,000
7366378 Ultrafast laser machining system and method for forming diffractive structures in optical fibers Jimmy Jia, Ming-Jun Li, Rajminder Singh, Tetsuo Ohara 2008-04-29 $635,000
7265057 3D lithography with laser beam writer for making hybrid surfaces 2007-09-04 $241,000
7251208 Optical pick-up system for use in an optical disk device including use of improved gratings with more efficient beam diffraction 2007-07-31 $301,000
7204911 Process and apparatus for forming discrete microcavities in a filament wire using a polymer etching mask 2007-04-17 $274,000
7122489 Manufacturing method of composite sheet material using ultrafast laser pulses Chen-Hsiung Cheng, Atsushi Sogami, Kazuo Nishimura 2006-10-17 $367,000
7040130 Method and apparatus for forming discrete microcavities in a filament wire using microparticles Ming-Jun Li, Makoto Ishizuka, Daniel Hogan, Kazuaki Ohkubo, Mitsuhiko Kimoto 2006-05-09 $378,000
6979521 Method of making grayscale mask for grayscale DOE production by using an absorber layer 2005-12-27 $501,000
6951627 Method of drilling holes with precision laser micromachining Ming-Jun Li, Makoto Ishizuka 2005-10-04 $575,000
6947649 Method of adjusting the index of refraction of photonic crystals with laser micromachining to tune transmissions within the bandgap and structure Ming-Jun Li, Makoto Ishizuka, Daniel Hogan 2005-09-20 $222,000