Average Co-Inventor Count = 2.90
ph-index = 76
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. (199 from 2,440 patents)
2. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (22 from 121 patents)
3. Acuson Corporation (9 from 399 patents)
4. Other (1 from 832,347 patents)
231 patents:
1. 12426974 - Systems to apply preload tension for surgical instruments and related methods
2. 12419707 - Geared roll drive for medical instrument
3. 12329401 - Instrument shafts with relief features, and related devices, systems, and methods
4. 12310552 - Minimally invasive surgical system
5. 12285232 - Cable tensioning in a robotic surgical system
6. 12285226 - Flux disambiguation for teleoperated surgical systems
7. 12274523 - Surgical system sterile drape
8. 12239497 - Instrument flushing system
9. 12220190 - Preloaded surgical instrument interface
10. 12208520 - Devices, systems and methods for controlling cable drive mechanisms
11. 12207895 - Surgical system entry guide
12. 12201264 - Side-looking minimally invasive surgery instrument assembly
13. 12137926 - Direct pull surgical gripper
14. 12127807 - Surgical system instrument mounting
15. 12089809 - Minimally invasive surgical system