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James Ochs — 46 Patents

CLCovidien Lp: 18 patents #292 of 2,878Top 15%
NINellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland: 13 patents #4 of 22Top 20%
Apple: 11 patents #2,966 of 18,612Top 20%
NBNellcor Puritan Bennett: 1 patents #145 of 287Top 55%
San Francisco, CA: #554 of 26,999 inventorsTop 3%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
James Ochs has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Covidien Lp. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2025. James Ochs ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list James Ochs in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2014.peak 72012: 1 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 7 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 6 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 4 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12478835 Detecting the end of hiking activities on a wearable device Gunes Dervisoglu, Hung John Pham, Bharath Narasimha Rao, Erin PAENG, Jonathan M. Beard +2 more 2025-11-25
12295726 Systems and methods for determining swimming metrics Bharath Narasimha Rao, Craig H. MERMEL, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Hung A. Pham, Adam S. Howell +11 more 2025-05-13
12186645 User interfaces for physical activity information Craig D. BOLTON, Julie A. Arney, Edward Chao, Lynne Devine, Victoria Elaine Hinn +3 more 2025-01-07
12109453 Detecting outdoor walking workouts on a wearable device Gunes Dervisoglu, Hung A. Pham, Bharath Narasimha Rao, Jonathan M. Beard, Lucie A. Huet +3 more 2024-10-08 $261,024,000
11937904 Detecting the end of cardio machine activities on a wearable device Mariah W. WHITMORE, Mark P. Sena, Julia K. Nichols, Erin PAENG, Vinay R. Majjigi +2 more 2024-03-26 $155,925,000
11896368 Systems and methods for determining swimming metrics Bharath Narasimha Rao, Craig H. MERMEL, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Hung A. Pham, Adam S. Howell +11 more 2024-02-13 $152,277,000
11857143 Wearable computer with fitness machine connectivity for improved activity monitoring using caloric expenditure models Bharath Narasimha Rao, Jennifer Strasser, Umamahesh Srinivas, Kevin Sheridan, Vinay R. Majjigi +3 more 2024-01-02 $111,466,000
11638556 Estimating caloric expenditure using heart rate model specific to motion class Di Wu, Paige N. Stanley, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram 2023-05-02 $520,634,000
11298076 Methods and systems for alerting practitioners to physiological conditions Scott Amundson, Keith Batchelder 2022-04-12
11103749 Systems and methods of swimming analysis Craig H. MERMEL, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Hung A. Pham, Adam S. Howell, Alexander Singh Alvarado +4 more 2021-08-31 $281,034,000
10987006 Wearable computer with fitness machine connectivity for improved activity monitoring using caloric expenditure models Bharath Narasimha Rao, Jennifer Strasser, Umamahesh Srinivas, Kevin Sheridan, Vinay R. Majjigi +3 more 2021-04-27 $300,345,000
10617912 Systems and methods of swimming calorimetry Bharath Narasimha Rao, Craig H. MERMEL, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Hung A. Pham, Vinay R. Majjigi +8 more 2020-04-14 $120,660,000
10537289 Systems and methods for filtering autocorrelation peaks and detecting harmonics Scott McGonigle, Paul Stanley Addison 2020-01-21
10376157 Systems and methods for determining respiration information using phase locked loop James Dripps, Paul Stanley Addison 2019-08-13
10076276 Methods and systems for alerting practitioners to physiological conditions Scott Amundson, Keith Batchelder 2018-09-18
10022068 Systems and methods for detecting held breath events Scott McGonigle 2018-07-17
9901308 Systems and methods for filtering autocorrelation peaks and detecting harmonics Scott McGonigle, Paul Stanley Addison 2018-02-27
9861317 Methods and systems for determining regional blood oxygen saturation 2018-01-09
9848820 Apnea analysis system and method Bo Chen, Michael Mestek, Ron J. Kadlec, Niranjan Maharajh, Mark Kolnsberg +3 more 2017-12-26
9737266 Systems and methods for determining respiration information from a photoplethysmograph James Dripps, Paul Stanley Addison, James N. Watson 2017-08-22
9693736 Systems and methods for determining respiration information using historical distribution Clark R. Baker, Jr., James Dripps, Paul Stanley Addison 2017-07-04
9687159 Systems and methods for determining physiological information by identifying fiducial points in a physiological signal Scott McGonigle 2017-06-27
9675274 Systems and methods for determining respiration information from a photoplethysmograph Scott McGonigle, Paul Stanley Addison, James N. Watson 2017-06-13
9597022 Venous oxygen saturation systems and methods Paul Stanley Addison, James N. Watson, Scott McGonigle 2017-03-21
9402554 Systems and methods for determining respiration information from a photoplethysmograph James N. Watson, Binwel Weng, Paul Stanley Addison, Scott McGonigle 2016-08-02