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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Derek Dee Deville — 176 Patents

CLCovidien Lp: 50 patents #77 of 2,878Top 3%
Johnson & Johnson: 39 patents #154 of 7,810Top 2%
SYSyntheon: 30 patents #2 of 29Top 7%
ECEdwards Lifesciences Cardiaq: 12 patents #6 of 41Top 15%
CICilag Gmbh International: 8 patents #192 of 874Top 25%
ELEdwards Lifesciences: 7 patents #230 of 941Top 25%
RARapidpulse: 7 patents #1 of 9Top 15%
S2Syntheon 2.0: 6 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
Medtronic: 2 patents #3,522 of 6,367Top 60%
HYHy-Pat: 1 patents #6 of 7Top 90%
CICllag Gmbh International: 1 patents #13 of 36Top 40%
Sunrise Harbor, FL: #1 of 60 inventorsTop 2%
Florida: #48 of 67,251 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,469 of 4,157,543Top 1%
176 Patents All Time
Derek Dee Deville has been granted 176 US patents while listed as an inventor at Covidien Lp. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in November 2025. Derek Dee Deville ranks #4,469 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.11%). Patent records list Derek Dee Deville in Sunrise Harbor, FL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 27 patents in 2013.peak 272005: 1 patents20052008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 9 patents20112012: 16 patents2013: 27 patents20132014: 18 patents2015: 6 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 17 patents20172018: 11 patents2019: 10 patents20192020: 12 patents2021: 8 patents20212022: 7 patents2023: 6 patents20232024: 9 patents2025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 176 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12471936 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-11-18
12471938 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-11-18
12471937 Aspiration thrombectomy systems and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Alejandro N. Calderon, Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen +3 more 2025-11-18
12465380 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-11-11
12446903 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric David Peterson, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-10-21
12433617 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-10-07
12364596 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Korey Kline, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2025-07-22
12251097 Multiple-firing suture fixation device and methods for using and manufacturing same Kevin W. Smith, Michael Walter Kirk, Carlos Rivera, George Nunez, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +8 more 2025-03-18
12185959 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-01-07
12171438 Recapturable left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for recapturing a left atrial appendage clip Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer, William T. Bales +5 more 2024-12-24 $65,944,000
12096933 Electrical surgical instrument with differential rate of closing motion speed Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Carlos Rivera, Matthew A. Palmer 2024-09-24
12082830 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-09-10
12059161 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-08-13
12059150 Surgical stapling and cutting device Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Korey Kline 2024-08-13
12004757 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-06-11
11974745 Electrically self-powered surgical instrument with cryptographic identification of interchangeable part Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Carlos Rivera, Matthew A. Palmer 2024-05-07
11918240 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-03-05
11877742 Adjustable compression staple and method for stapling with adjustable compression Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Korey Kline 2024-01-23
11793524 Recapturable left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for recapturing a left atrial appendage clip Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer, William T. Bales +5 more 2023-10-24 $54,921,000
11759203 Electrical surgical instrument with minimum closure distance for staple firing control Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Carlos Rivera, Matthew A. Palmer 2023-09-19
11751873 Electrically powered surgical instrument with manual release Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Carlos Rivera, Matthew A. Palmer 2023-09-12
11712249 Left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for clipping the LAA William T. Bales, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Michael Walter Kirk, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +1 more 2023-08-01
11707356 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Korey Kline, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2023-07-25
11547426 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2023-01-10
11478820 Battery-powered hand-held ultrasonic surgical cautery cutting device Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer 2022-10-25