Average Co-Inventor Count = 3.14
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 (146 from 7,821 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)
151 patents:
1. 12419640 - Powered surgical tack applier
2. 12295571 - Powered surgical tack applier
3. 12274439 - Hand-held surgical instruments
4. 12268387 - Hand-held surgical instruments
5. 12185948 - Powered surgical devices including strain gauges incorporated into flex circuits
6. 12108952 - Surgical stapling apparatus
7. 12082835 - Surgical device including two-cable hemispherical grasper
8. 12053180 - Handheld surgical handle assembly, surgical adapters for use between surgical handle assembly and surgical end effectors, and methods of use
9. 12035907 - Adapter assembly and loading units for surgical stapling devices
10. 12029420 - Sled detection device
11. 11931039 - Surgical buttress loading and attaching/detaching assemblies
12. 11925348 - Surgical instrument including an adapter assembly and an articulating surgical loading unit
13. 11918216 - Handheld electromechanical surgical system
14. 11911013 - Interconnecting electromechanical surgical devices and surgical loading units, and surgical systems thereof
15. 11903579 - Apparatus and method of forming barbs on a suture