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Michael J. Claus — 50 Patents

Abbott: 23 patents #199 of 5,509Top 4%
Johnson & Johnson: 17 patents #567 of 7,810Top 8%
HKHella Gmbh & Co. Kgaa: 3 patents #95 of 615Top 20%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 2 patents #6,658 of 22,248Top 30%
CACarl Zeiss Meditec Ag: 2 patents #264 of 667Top 40%
Becton, Dickinson And: 1 patents #1,883 of 2,926Top 65%
CGCarl Zeiss Vision International Gmbh: 1 patents #124 of 69Top 180%
CGCarl Zeiss Optronics Gmbh: 1 patents #2 of 13Top 20%
Overall (All Time): #53,743 of 4,157,543Top 2%
50 Patents All Time
Michael J. Claus has been granted 50 US patents while listed as an inventor at Abbott. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in January 2024. Michael J. Claus ranks #53,743 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Michael J. Claus in Nuremberg, CA, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2022.peak 71987: 1 patents19872005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 6 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 6 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 7 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 50 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11872996 Control system for a motor vehicle and method for diagnosing a failure in a control system Nikolaus Decius, Julian Eckstein, Sergey ORLOV, Peter Grabs, Matthias Korte +5 more 2024-01-16
11440545 Control system for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle, method for controlling a motor vehicle, computer program product and computer-readable medium Nikolaus Decius, Ulrich Koehler, Carsten KUEGELER, Sergey ORLOV, Juergen Gebert +12 more 2022-09-13
11400951 Control system for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle, method for controlling a motor vehicle, computer program product and computer-readable medium Nikolaus Decius, Julian Eckstein, Carsten KUEGELER, Sergey ORLOV, Peter Grabs +6 more 2022-08-02
11369728 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2022-06-28
11369729 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2022-06-28
11364145 Automatically pulsing different aspiration levels to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2022-06-21
11305053 Surgical handpiece having directional fluid control capabilities Mitchell W. Mallough 2022-04-19
11266526 Automatically pulsing different aspiration levels to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2022-03-08
10993839 Automatically pulsing different aspiration levels to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2021-05-04
10905588 Automatically pulsing different aspiration levels to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2021-02-02
10813790 Automatically pulsing different aspiration levels to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2020-10-27
10668192 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2020-06-02
10492947 Controlling a phacoemulsification system based on real-time analysis of image data 2019-12-03
10478534 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2019-11-19
10349925 Method for programming foot pedal settings and controlling performance through foot pedal variation Wayne S. Wong, Timothy L. Hunter, Abraham Hajishah, Jeremy T. Links 2019-07-16
10251983 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2019-04-09
10238778 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Robert G. Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2019-03-26
10219940 Automatically pulsing different aspiration levels to an ocular probe Rob Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2019-03-05
10080681 Controlling a phacoemulsification system based on real-time analysis of image data 2018-09-25
9971870 Systems and methods for managing and distributing user profiles for surgical systems Joseph Liu 2018-05-15
9762654 System and method for providing a user interface to remotely control medical devices Kyle E. Lynn, Richard G Duff, Rennie G Allen 2017-09-12 $42,191,000
9597445 Fluid management system for use in a medical procedure Catherine P. Ha, Wayne S. Wong 2017-03-21 $44,383,000
9566188 Automatically switching different aspiration levels and/or pumps to an ocular probe Rob Raney, James Gerg, Wayne S. Wong, David A. King, James W. Staggs +1 more 2017-02-14 $61,900,000
9496704 Method and protective device for detecting a symmetrical short-circuit in a multiphase electrical power supply network Joerg Blumschein, Volker Henn, Matthias Kereit, Gustav Steynberg, Yilmaz Yelgin 2016-11-15
9433472 Controlling a phacoemulsification system based on real-time analysis of image data 2016-09-06 $53,060,000