Average Co-Inventor Count = 3.13
ph-index = 37
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 (145 from 7,801 patents)
2. Tyco Healthcare Group LP (2 from 1,159 patents)
3. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. (2 from 965 patents)
4. Coviden LP (1 from 27 patents)
150 patents:
1. 12295571 - Powered surgical tack applier
2. 12274439 - Hand-held surgical instruments
3. 12268387 - Hand-held surgical instruments
4. 12185948 - Powered surgical devices including strain gauges incorporated into flex circuits
5. 12108952 - Surgical stapling apparatus
6. 12082835 - Surgical device including two-cable hemispherical grasper
7. 12053180 - Handheld surgical handle assembly, surgical adapters for use between surgical handle assembly and surgical end effectors, and methods of use
8. 12035907 - Adapter assembly and loading units for surgical stapling devices
9. 12029420 - Sled detection device
10. 11931039 - Surgical buttress loading and attaching/detaching assemblies
11. 11925348 - Surgical instrument including an adapter assembly and an articulating surgical loading unit
12. 11918216 - Handheld electromechanical surgical system
13. 11911013 - Interconnecting electromechanical surgical devices and surgical loading units, and surgical systems thereof
14. 11903579 - Apparatus and method of forming barbs on a suture
15. 11877733 - Adapter assembly with gimbal for interconnecting electromechanical surgical devices and surgical loading units, and surgical systems thereof