Average Co-Inventor Count = 2.90
ph-index = 77
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. Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. (200 from 2,455 patents)
2. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (22 from 121 patents)
3. Acuson Corporation (9 from 399 patents)
4. Other (1 from 832,398 patents)
232 patents:
1. 12433701 - Geared grip actuation for medical instruments
2. 12426974 - Systems to apply preload tension for surgical instruments and related methods
3. 12419707 - Geared roll drive for medical instrument
4. 12329401 - Instrument shafts with relief features, and related devices, systems, and methods
5. 12310552 - Minimally invasive surgical system
6. 12285232 - Cable tensioning in a robotic surgical system
7. 12285226 - Flux disambiguation for teleoperated surgical systems
8. 12274523 - Surgical system sterile drape
9. 12239497 - Instrument flushing system
10. 12220190 - Preloaded surgical instrument interface
11. 12208520 - Devices, systems and methods for controlling cable drive mechanisms
12. 12207895 - Surgical system entry guide
13. 12201264 - Side-looking minimally invasive surgery instrument assembly
14. 12137926 - Direct pull surgical gripper
15. 12127807 - Surgical system instrument mounting