Average Co-Inventor Count = 2.18
ph-index = 39
The patent ph-index is calculated by counting the number of publications for which an author has been cited by other authors at least that same number of times.
Company Filing History:
1. Covidien LP (72 from 7,840 patents)
2. Covidien Ag (21 from 448 patents)
3. Tyco Healthcare Group LP (4 from 1,159 patents)
4. Sherwood Services Ag (2 from 268 patents)
99 patents:
1. 12426941 - Surgical instruments and systems configured to detect, analyze, and/or distinguish smoke and steam during a surgical procedure
2. 12213720 - Jaw assemblies for electrosurgical instruments and methods of manufacturing jaw assemblies
3. 12156691 - Surgical system and methods for treating tissue
4. 12114913 - Surgical instrument with resilient driving member and related methods of use
5. 11957402 - Apparatus for performing an electrosurgical procedure
6. 11903635 - Electrosurgical forceps including tissue indication
7. 11832916 - System and methods for identifying vessels within tissue
8. 11707315 - Deployment mechanisms for surgical instruments
9. 11711596 - System and methods for determining proximity relative to an anatomical structure
10. 11622782 - Jaw, blade and gap manufacturing for surgical instruments with small jaws
11. 11583304 - Apparatus for performing an electrosurgical procedure
12. 11478295 - Electrically-insulative hinge for electrosurgical jaw assembly, bipolar forceps including same, and methods of jaw-assembly alignment using fastened electrically-insulative hinge
13. 11324545 - Surgical instrument with resilient driving member and related methods of use
14. 11103302 - Apparatus for performing an electrosurgical procedure
15. 11033320 - Jaw assemblies for electrosurgical instruments and methods of manufacturing jaw assemblies