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Michael Zung — 46 Patents

AVAvinger: 26 patents #4 of 35Top 15%
Abbott: 12 patents #569 of 5,509Top 15%
PEPerclose: 1 patents #8 of 14Top 60%
San Carlos, CA: #47 of 427 inventorsTop 15%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Michael Zung has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Avinger. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2025. Michael Zung ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Michael Zung in San Carlos, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12257029 Occlusion-crossing devices, imaging, and atherectomy devices John B. Simpson, Himanshu N. Patel, Charles W. McNall, Priyanshu Gupta, Maegan K. Spencer +3 more 2025-03-25
12178613 Optical coherence tomography for biological imaging John Black, Maegan K. Spencer, Charles W. McNall, Evangeline Lumabas, Michael H. Rosenthal +1 more 2024-12-31 $121,000
12171407 Atherectomy catheter drive assemblies Brian Y. Tachibana, Charles W. McNall, Peter Howard Smith, Brian Chiu, Douglas Joseph Scott Bourne +1 more 2024-12-24 $102,000
12089868 Methods of using atherectomy catheter with deflectable distal tip Michael H. Rosenthal, Nicholas J. Spinelli, Charles W. McNall, John B. Simpson, John Black 2024-09-17 $107,000
12053260 Catheter-based off-axis optical coherence tomography imaging system Maegan K. Spencer, Christopher B. White, Charles W. McNall, Dennis W. Jackson, Nicholas J. Spinelli +6 more 2024-08-06 $109,000
11903677 Occlusion-crossing devices, imaging, and atherectomy devices John B. Simpson, Himanshu N. Patel, Charles W. McNall, Priyanshu Gupta, Maegan K. Spencer +3 more 2024-02-20 $169,000
11839493 Optical coherence tomography for biological imaging John Black, Maegan K. Spencer, Charles W. McNall, Evangeline Lumabas, Michael H. Rosenthal +1 more 2023-12-12 $128,000
11717314 Atherectomy catheter with laterally-displaceable tip Michael H. Rosenthal, Nicholas J. Spinelli, Charles W. McNall, John B. Simpson, John Black 2023-08-08 $122,000
11698236 Grip safety interlock for firearm John Mark Cobb 2023-07-11
11406412 Atherectomy catheters with imaging Priyanshu Gupta, Charles W. McNall, Himanshu N. Patel, Christina Van 2022-08-09 $230,000
11382653 Atherectomy catheter Himanshu N. Patel, John B. Simpson, Charles W. McNall, Maegan K. Spencer, Priyanshu Gupta +4 more 2022-07-12 $187,000
11284839 Optical coherence tomography for biological imaging John Black, Maegan K. Spencer, Charles W. McNall, Evangeline Lumabas, Michael H. Rosenthal +1 more 2022-03-29 $187,000
11284916 Atherectomy catheters and occlusion crossing devices Himanshu N. Patel, John B. Simpson, Anthony J. Fernandez, Richard Newhauser, Priyanshu Gupta +10 more 2022-03-29 $187,000
11243035 Grip safety interlock for firearm John Mark Cobb 2022-02-08
11206975 Atherectomy catheter drive assemblies Brian Y. Tachibana, Charles W. McNall, Peter Howard Smith, Brian Chiu, Douglas Joseph Scott Bourne +1 more 2021-12-28 $1,539,000
11134849 Occlusion-crossing devices, imaging, and atherectomy devices John B. Simpson, Himanshu N. Patel, Charles W. McNall, Priyanshu Gupta, Maegan K. Spencer +3 more 2021-10-05 $1,131,000
10767949 Two-stage safety selectors for firearms John Mark Cobb 2020-09-08
10729326 Catheter-based off-axis optical coherence tomography imaging system Maegan K. Spencer, Christopher B. White, Charles W. McNall, Dennis W. Jackson, Nicholas J. Spinelli +6 more 2020-08-04 $948,000
10548478 Balloon atherectomy catheters with imaging John B. Simpson, Priyanshu Gupta, Wendy Ngo Lam, Maegan K. Spencer, Peter Howard Smith +7 more 2020-02-04 $286,000
10349974 Atherectomy catheters with longitudinally displaceable drive shafts Himanshu N. Patel, John B. Simpson, Charles W. McNall, Maegan K. Spencer, Priyanshu Gupta 2019-07-16
10342491 Optical coherence tomography for biological imaging John Black, Maegan K. Spencer, Charles W. McNall, Evangeline Lumabas, Michael H. Rosenthal +1 more 2019-07-09 $516,000
10244934 Atherectomy catheter drive assemblies Brian Y. Tachibana, Charles W. McNall, Peter Howard Smith, Brian Chiu, Douglas Joseph Scott Bourne +1 more 2019-04-02 $1,923,000
10052125 Atherectomy catheter with laterally-displaceable tip Michael H. Rosenthal, Nicholas J. Spinelli, Charles W. McNall, John B. Simpson, John Black 2018-08-21 $580,000
9788790 Optical coherence tomography for biological imaging John Black, Maegan K. Spencer, Charles W. McNall, Evangeline Lumabas, Michael H. Rosenthal +1 more 2017-10-17 $441,000
9572492 Occlusion-crossing devices, imaging, and atherectomy devices John B. Simpson, Himanshu N. Patel, Charles W. McNall, Priyanshu Gupta, Maegan K. Spencer +3 more 2017-02-21 $1,194,000