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Surgical Dynamics — 38 Patents

Rank (All Time): #16,619 of 105,732Top 20%
36 inventors
38 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 1999.peak 81987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents1990: 3 patents19901991: 3 patents1992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 8 patents19992000: 8 patents2001: 7 patents20012002: 2 patents2002

Top Inventors at Surgical Dynamics All Time

Showing 1–36 of 36 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Charles D. Ray 6
1 Charles J. Winslow 6
3 David Nichols 4
#4 Gary Onik 3
#4 James Thomas 3
#4 Lance Middleton 3
#4 Rick D. Roberts 3
#4 Robert Brosnahan 3
#4 Steven T. Mitchell 3
#10 Benjamin Clawson 2
#10 Chih-I Lin 2
#10 Christopher McDonnell 2
#10 Eugene A. Dickhudt 2
#10 Henry A. Klyce 2
#10 Kirk Jayne 2
#10 Leonard Ginsburg 2
#10 Salvatore Castro 2
#18 Paul Arrowsmith 1
#18 Dennis M. Stefura 1
#18 Christine M. Tompkins 1
#18 David A. Nicholas 1
#18 Herb Cohen 1
#18 Julie A. Bearcroft 1
#18 Laura A. Small 1
#18 Oleg Shikhman 1
#18 Paul Pavlov 1
#18 Peter W. J. Hinchliffe 1
#18 Peter C. Miller 1
#18 Richard Milner 1
#18 Robert C. Smith 1
#18 Scott Larsen 1
#18 Stephen W. Zlock 1
#18 Timothy J. Ryan 1
#18 Wayne P. Young 1
#18 Edith Jane Millan 1
#18 Duane J. Zythkovicz 1

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