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Daniel E. Need — 7 Patents

ACAcuson: 6 patents #45 of 252Top 20%
Palo Alto, CA: #2,978 of 9,675 inventorsTop 35%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Daniel E. Need has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Acuson. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2025. Daniel E. Need ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Daniel E. Need in Palo Alto, CA, US.

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Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12433569 Ultrasound transducer assembly Bhaskar Ramamurthy, John D. Marshall, Jonathan Hofius, Mallika Keralapura 2025-10-07
6527720 Medical ultrasonic imaging method and system for spatial compounding Kutay F. Ustuner, Charles E. Bradley 2003-03-04
6221018 Medical ultrasonic diagnostic imaging method and apparatus Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Charles E. Bradley, Ken Sawatari, Danhua Zhao, Stuart L. Carp +3 more 2001-04-24
6193659 Medical ultrasonic diagnostic imaging method and apparatus Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Charles E. Bradley, Ken Sawatari, Danhua Zhao, Stuart L. Carp +3 more 2001-02-27
5913823 Ultrasound imaging method and system for transmit signal generation for an ultrasonic imaging system capable of harmonic imaging David J. Hedberg, Stuart L. Carp, Stirling S. Dodd, Samual H. Maslak, Bhaskar Ramamurthy +1 more 1999-06-22 $2,370,000
5833614 Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus for generating pulse width modulated waveforms with reduced harmonic response Stirling S. Dodd, Stuart L. Carp, David M. Hedberg, Samual H. Maslak, Bhaskar Ramamurthy 1998-11-10 $1,972,000
5544654 Voice control of a medical ultrasound scanning machine Sean Murphy 1996-08-13 $3,104,000