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2006

Patent Title Patent # Inventor(s)
High-Index Contrast Distributed Bragg Reflector 7,113,673 Michael Lipson, Vilson Rosa de Almeida
Electrospray Emitter For Microfluidic Channel 7,105,810 Jun Kameska, Harold G. Craighead
Low Voltage High-Speed Differential Logic Devices and Method of Use Thereof 7,098,697 Daniel Kucharski, Kevin Kornegay
High Temperature Sicn and Sic-Type Nanostructure Ceramic Material from Block Copolymer Mesophases 7,087,656 Carlos Garcia, Ulrich Wiesner
System and method for continuous casting of a molten material 7,082,986 Paul H. Steen
Fibers From Polymer Nanoclay Nanocomposites by Electrospinning 7,083,854 Yong Lak Joo, Huajun Zhou
Electrospray emitter for microfluidic channel 7,081,622 Jun Kameoka, Harold G. Craighead
Method for sequencing nucleic acid molecules 7,056,661 Jonas Korlach, Watt W. Webb, Michael Levene, Stephen Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu Foquet
Method for sequencing nucleic acid molecules 7,056,676 Jonas Korlach, Watt W. Webb, Michael Levene, Stephen Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu Foquet
Scalable nano-transistor and memory using back-side trapping 7,057,234 Sandip Tiwari
Chemoreceptive semiconductor structure 7,053,439 Edwin Kan, Bradley A. Minch
Method for sequencing nucleic acid molecules 7,052,847 Jonas Korlach, Watt W. Webb, Michael Levene, Stephen Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu Foquet
Three dimensional high aspect ratio micromachining 7,045,466 Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Xiaojun T. Huang, Noel C. MacDonald
Low-voltage, low-power transimpedance amplifier architecture 7,042,295 Drew Guckenberger, Kevin T. Kornegay
Method for Sequencing Nucleic Acid Molecules 7,033,764 Watt W. Webb, Jonas Korlach, Michael Levene, Stephen W. Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu E. Foquet
Independent-tree Ad Hoc Multicast Routing 7,035,937 Zygmunt J. Haas, S. Sajama
Controlled nucleic acid delivery systems 7,030,097 William Mark Saltzman, Dan Luo, Hong Shen, Kim Woodrow-Mumford, Nadya D. Belcheva
Methods and systems for concurrent paging of mobile users in cellular networks 7,031,731 Rung-Hung Gau, Zygmunt J. Haas
Small scale wires with microelectromechanical devices 7,022,617 Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Noel C. MacDonald
Waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes 7,013,054 Michael J. Levene, Jonas Korlach, Stephen W. Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Watt W. Webb
Real-time software receiver 7,010,060 Brent M. Ledvina, Mark L. Psiaki, Steven P. Powell, Paul M. Kintner, Jr.
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2005

Patent Title Patent # Inventor(s)
Electronic gain cell based charge sensor 6,953,958 Gregory T. Baxter, Sandip Tiwari
Highly doped III-nitride semiconductors 6,953,740 William J. Schaff, Jeonghyun Hwang
Electrical device including dielectric layer formed by direct patterning process 6,946,736 Karen K. Gleason, Christopher Ober, Daniel Herr
Miniaturized holographic fourier transform spectrometer with digital aberration correction 6,930,781 Nikolay I. Agladze, Albert J. Sievers
Dual chamber micropump having checkvalves 6,921,253 Michael Shuler, Aaron Sin
Zero-mode clad waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes 6,917,726 Michael J. Levene, Jonas Korlach, Stephen W. Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Watt W. Webb
Method and system for optimizing layered communication protocols 6,914,910 Robert Van Renesse, Mark Rayden
Multiple mechanical resonator parametric device 6,900,575 Anatoli Olkhovets, Dustin W. Carr, Harold G. Craighead, Jeeak M. Parpia
Highly doped III-nitride semiconductors 6,888,170 William J. Schaff, Jeonghyun Hwang
Use of multiphoton excitation through optical fibers for fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with optical biopsy needles and endoscopes 6,839,586 Watt W. Webb
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2004

Patent Title Patent # Inventor(s)
Single crystal silicon micromirror and array 6,794,217 Seung B. Lee, Noel C. MacDonald
Method of forming dual exposure glass layer structures 6,773,950 David M. Tanenbaum, Yi-Fan Chen
Monolithic nanofluid sieving structures for DNA manipulation 6,753,200 Harold G. Craighead, Stephen W. Turner
Polymer material with stable non-wetting surface 6,750,296 Christopher K. Ober, Maoliang Xiang, Kenneth J. Wynne
System and method for fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts 6,744,923 Ramin D. Zabih, Olga Veksler, Yuri Boykov
Embedded metal nanocrystals 6,743,709 Edwin C. Kan, Zengtao Liu, Venkatasubraman Narayanan
Method of using heat-depolymerizable polycarbonate sacrificial layer to create nano-fluidic devices 6,743,570 Cindy K. Harnett, Harold G. Craighead, Geoff Coates
Methods for modulation of oocyte activation 6,737,272 Richard Kuo, Gregory Baxter, David Epel
Heartbeat failure detector method and apparatus 6,728,781 Marcos K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, Sam Toueg
Transmission line structures for use as phase shifters and switches 6,727,778 Thomas D. Kudrle, Hercules P. Neves, Damien C. Rodger, Noel C. MacDonald
Failure detector with consensus protocol 6,687,847 Marcos K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, Sam Toueg
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2003

Patent Title Patent # Inventor(s)
High-energy pulse compression using phase shifts produced by the cascade quadriatic nonlinearity 6,650,466 Frank Wise, Qian Liejia, Xiang Liu
Embedded metal nanocrystals 6,646,302 Edwin C. Kan, Zengtao Liu, Venkatasubraman Narayanan
Superparamagnetic nanostructured materials 6,645,626 Carlos Garcia, Ulrich B. Wiesner
System and method for sensing magnetic fields based on movement 6,639,403 Alexander B. Temnykh, Richard V. E. Lovelace
Entropic trapping and sieving of molecules 6,635,163 Jongyoon Han, Harold G. Craighead
Lamp utilizing fiber for enhanced starting field 6,628,079 Czeslaw Golkowski, David Hammer, Byungmoo Song, Yonglai Tian, Miodrag Cekic, Michael G. Ury, Douglas A. Kirkpatrick
Multihelical composite spring 6,612,556 Petru Petrina
Folded floating-gate differential pair amplifier 6,600,363 Bradley A. Minch
Low temperature semiconductor layering and three-dimensional electronic circuits using the layering 6,600,173 Sandip Tiwari
Electrostatically charged microstructures 6,597,048 Edwin C. Kan
Use of multiphoton excitation through optical fibers for fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with optical biopsy needles and endoscopes 6,580,941 Watt W. Webb
Method for topographical patterning of materials 6,559,474 Harold G. Craighead, Bojan Ilic
Single crystal silicon micromirror and array 6,541,831 Seung B. Lee, Noel C. MacDonald
Dense backplane cell for configurable logic 6,534,819 Sandip Tiwari, Arvind Kumar
Mechanically resonant nanostructures 6,515,751 Harold G. Craighead, Dustin W. Carr, Lidija Sekaric
Solventless, resistless direct dielectric patterning 6,509,138 Karen K. Gleason, Christopher Ober, Daniel Herr
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2002

Patent Title Patent # Inventor(s)
Parametric resonance in microelectromechanical structures 6,497,141 Kimberly L. Turner, Noel C. MacDonald
Single step process for epitaxial lateral overgrowth of nitride based materials 6,478,871 James R. Shealy, Joseph A. Smart
Suspended moving channels and channel actuators for microfluidic applications and method for making 6,462,391 John M. Chong, Noel C. MacDonald
Optoelectronic packaging 6,456,766 Kevin A. Shaw, James S. Sutherland
Unitary microcapiliary and waveguide structure and method of fabrication 6,438,279 Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu E. Foquet, Warren Wright
Image subregion querying using color correlograms 6,430,312 Jing Huang, Shanmugasundaram Ravi Kumar, Mandar Mitra, Wei-Jing Zhu
Image subregion querying using color correlograms 6,430,312 Jing Huang, Shanmugasundaram Ravi Kumar, Mandar Mitra, Wei-Jing Zhu
Sensor-assisted aloha for wireless networks 6,404,750 Stephen B. Wicker, Terrence L. Fine
Reliable time delay-constrained cluster computing 6,393,581 Roy Friedman, Kenneth P. Birman, Srinivasan Keshav, Werner Vogels
Microfabrication of a nuclear transfer array for high-throughput animal cloning 6,383,813 Gregory T. Baxter, Richard C. Kuo
Using block copolymers as supercritical fluid developable photoresists 6,379,874 Christopher K. Ober, Jianguo Wang
Acyclic monomers which when cured are reworkable through thermal decomposition 6,355,702 Christopher K. Ober, Kenji Ogino
Method and apparatus for altering material RE37,537 Regan W. Stinnett, John B. Greenly
Multi-photon laser microscopy 6,344,653 Watt W. Webb, Chris Xu
Trench isolation for micromechanical devices 6,342,430 Scott G. Adams, Kevin A. Shaw, Russell Y. Webb, Bryan W. Reed, Noel C. MacDonald, Timothy J. Davis
Electrothermally actuated vibromotor 6,338,249 Minfan Pai, Norman C. Tien
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2001

Patent Title Patent # Inventor(s)
High throughput OMPVE apparatus 6,332,928 J. Richard Shealy, Barry P. Butterfield
Fabrication of periodic surface structures with nanometer-scale spacings 6,329,070 Stephen L. Sass, Christopher K. Ober, Yuri Suzuki
thod of enhancing the delivery of nucleic acids using silica nanoparticles 6,319,715 Dan Luo, W. Mark Saltzman, Ernest Han, Nadya Belcheva
Motion amplification based sensors 6,309,077 Mohammed T. A. Saif, Noel C. MacDonald
Routing and mobility management protocols for ad-hoc networks 6,304,556 Zygmunt J. Haas
Image indexing using color correlograms 6,246,790 Jing Huang, Shanmugasundaram Ravi Kumar, Mandar Mitra, Wei-Jing Zhu
Trench isolation for micromechanical devices 6,239,473 Scott G. Adams, Kevin A. Shaw, Russell Y. Webb, Bryan W. Reed, Noel C. MacDonald, Timothy J. Davis
Method for preparing silicate-polymer composite 6,225,374 Richard A. Vaia, Oliver K. Tse, Emmanuel P. Giannelis
High throughput OMVPE apparatus 6,217,937 J. Richard Shealy
Multiple optical channels for chemical analysis 6,214,246 Harold G. Craighead
Method and system for masking the overhead of protocol layering 6,208,651 Robbert Van Renesse, Mark Hayden
Pulsed ion beam source RE37,100 John B. Greenly
Microelectromechanical accelerometer for automotive applications 6,199,874 Gregory J. Galvin, Timothy J. Davis, Noel C. MacDonald
Compounds with substituted cyclic hydrocarbon moieties linked by secondary or tertiary oxycarbonyl containing moiety providing reworkable cured thermosets 6,197,122 Christopher K. Ober, Hilmar Koerner
Optical polarization sensing apparatus and method 6,188,477 Chuan Pu, Yu Hwa Lo
Methods for growing defect-free heteroepitaxial layers 6,184,144 Yu-Hwa Lo
Motion amplification based sensors 6,183,097 Mohammed T. A. Saif, Noel C. MacDonald
Method and system for comparing data objects using joint histograms 6,181,817 Ramin D. Zabih, Gregory S. Pass
Suspended moving channels and channel actuators for microfluidic applications and method for making 6,180,536 John M. Chong, Noel C. MacDonald
Micromechanical accelerometer for automotive applications 6,170,332 Noel C. MacDonald, Kevin A. Shaw, Scott G. Adams
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