Ming Lei has been granted 216 US patents while listed as an inventor at The Code . The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in September 2025. Ming Lei ranks #2,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.07%). Patent records list Ming Lei in Santa Clara, CA, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025 Bar chart with a peak of 28 patents in 2016. peak 28 1996: 1 patents 1996 1998: 2 patents 1999: 2 patents 2000: 1 patents 2000 2001: 1 patents 2008: 1 patents 2009: 2 patents 2009 2010: 2 patents 2011: 2 patents 2012: 2 patents 2012 2013: 3 patents 2014: 7 patents 2015: 15 patents 2015 2016: 28 patents 2017: 25 patents 2018: 16 patents 2018 2019: 18 patents 2020: 12 patents 2021: 25 patents 2021 2022: 9 patents 2023: 13 patents 2024: 15 patents 2024 2025: 14 patents 2025
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Showing 201–216 of 216 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
8291492 Authentication of a contributor of online content Michael David McNally , Nathan Stoll , Scott Barta , Krishna Bharat , Justin Lawyer 2012-10-16
$23,648,000
8233061 System, method, and computer program product for reducing a number of requests required to retrieve portions of memory Zhiqiang Su , Rirong CHEN 2012-07-31
$9,777,000
8011583 Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing data matrix lighting Jason Lee , Richard G. Long 2011-09-06
7886979 Methods for illuminating barcodes — 2011-02-15
7857224 Devices and/or systems for automatically imaging barcodes — 2010-12-28
7688450 Hydrogel-actuated micromirrors for optical sensing — 2010-03-30
$14,203,000
7600230 System and method for managing security meta-data in a reverse proxy Ajay M. Desai , Fredric Goell , Lawrence Jacobs 2009-10-06
$86,068,000
7588968 Linked chip attach and underfill Edward A. Zarbock , Sabina J. Houle 2009-09-15
$19,566,000
7437754 Web object access authorization protocol based on an HTTP validation model Ajay M. Desai , Ric Goell , Lawrence Jacobs 2008-10-14
$53,647,000
6244764 Method for data matrix print quality verification Raymond Ackaouy 2001-06-12
$1,919,000
6094509 Method and apparatus for decoding two-dimensional symbols in the spatial domain Joe Zheng 2000-07-25
$67,346,000
5992234 Detection of defects using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy at predicted high order modes George W. Rhodes , James J. Schwarz , David E. Thomas 1999-11-30
5880451 System and method for OCR assisted bar code decoding Christopher E. Smith 1999-03-09
5837896 Detection of defects using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy at predicted high order modes George W. Rhodes , James J. Schwarz , David E. Thomas 1998-11-17
5767497 Method and apparatus for decoding bar code symbols using ratio analysis of module size — 1998-06-16
5515447 Method and apparatus for locating an acquisition target in two-dimensional images by detecting symmetry in two different directions Joe Zheng 1996-05-07
