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Trimedyne
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Trimedyne
— 34 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#18,203
of
105,732
Top 20%
26
inventors
34
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2016
Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1993.
peak 4
1983: 1 patents
1983
1984: 2 patents
1985: 2 patents
1985
1986: 1 patents
1988: 1 patents
1988
1993: 4 patents
1995: 4 patents
1995
1996: 1 patents
1997: 2 patents
1997
1998: 1 patents
1999: 3 patents
1999
2000: 1 patents
2003: 2 patents
2003
2004: 2 patents
2005: 2 patents
2005
2006: 1 patents
2007: 1 patents
2007
2008: 1 patents
2009: 1 patents
2009
2016: 1 patents
2016
Top Inventors at Trimedyne
All Time
Showing
1–26
of
26
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Marvin P. Loeb
18
2
L. Dean Crawford
8
3
Hany M. G. Hussein
7
#4
Vahid Saadatmanesh
6
#5
Vahid Saadat
4
#6
Herbert Mittleman
3
#6
Randall Blair
3
#6
Randy Graham
3
#6
Sanford Damasco
3
#6
Stanislaw Sulek
3
#11
Glenn Yeik
2
#11
Gottfried Schmer
2
#11
James A. Milburn
2
#11
James W. Pergl
2
#11
Jeffrey Giba
2
#11
Samuel M. Shaolian
2
#17
Albert L. Babb
1
#17
Douglas Ellis Johnson
1
#17
George Acosta
1
#17
Gerry Rey
1
#17
Hung H. Cao
1
#17
Kenneth M. Galt
1
#17
Raymond Dessoffy
1
#17
Royice B. Everett
1
#17
To V. Pham
1
#17
Tom Lillig
1
Most Valuable Patents
Patent
Est. Value
Year
Hollow fiberoptic
$2M
1988
Connector for coupling of laser energy
$2M
1993
Method and apparatus for subjecting a body site to a movable beam of laterally directed laser radiation
$1M
1993
Rotatable laser probe with beveled tip
$1M
1993
Percutaneous laser treatment
$972K
1999
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