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Robert E. Holop — 27 Patents

Intuitive Surgical: 22 patents #88 of 719Top 15%
Santa Clara, CA: #545 of 9,301 inventorsTop 6%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Robert E. Holop has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intuitive Surgical. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in December 2025. Robert E. Holop ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Robert E. Holop in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2024.peak 62011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 4 patents20232024: 6 patents20242025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12502238 Surgical apparatus including a sterile adapter having mechanical lockouts 2025-12-23
12472026 Mechanism for managing and retaining a surgical drape Craig R. Ramstad, Jeffrey R. Roeder, Jessica Brown, Anthony K. McGrogan 2025-11-18
12453611 Surgical system instrument sterile adapter Anthony K. McGrogan, Craig R. Ramstad 2025-10-28
12285226 Flux disambiguation for teleoperated surgical systems Thomas G. Cooper 2025-04-29
12274523 Surgical system sterile drape Anthony K. McGrogan, Jeffrey D. Brown, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Daniel H. Gomez +1 more 2025-04-15
12207895 Surgical system entry guide Thomas G. Cooper, Jeffrey D. Brown, Nicola Diolaiti, Eugene F. Duval, Daniel H. Gomez +3 more 2025-01-28
12138006 Surgical drape installation aid Craig R. Ramstad 2024-11-12 $103,204,000
12127807 Surgical system instrument mounting Daniel H. Gomez, Jeffrey D. Brown, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Anthony K. McGrogan +3 more 2024-10-29 $176,285,000
12102398 Automated instrument preload engage/disengage mechanism Todd R. Solomon 2024-10-01 $120,627,000
12102400 Techniques for controlling a moveable component Nicola Diolaiti, Jeffrey D. Brown, Daniel H. Gomez, Anthony K. McGrogan, Probal Mitra +1 more 2024-10-01 $120,627,000
11986262 Controller controlled instrument preload mechanism Anthony K. McGrogan, Jeffrey R. Roeder, Daniel H. Gomez, Arjang M. Hourtash, Thomas Brennan-Marquez +1 more 2024-05-21 $112,015,000
11883123 Mechanism for managing and retaining a surgical drape Craig R. Ramstad, Jeffrey R. Roeder, Jeffrey D. Brown, Anthony K. McGrogan 2024-01-30 $54,992,000
11766301 Techniques for controlling a moveable component Nicola Diolaiti, Jeffrey D. Brown, Daniel H. Gomez, Anthony K. McGrogan, Probal Mitra +1 more 2023-09-26 $217,394,000
11684439 Surgical system sterile drape Anthony K. McGrogan, Jeffrey D. Brown, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Daniel H. Gomez +1 more 2023-06-27 $73,085,000
11596488 Surgical system instrument mounting Daniel H. Gomez, Jeffrey D. Brown, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Anthony K. McGrogan +3 more 2023-03-07 $116,041,000
11559363 Controller controlled instrument preload mechanism Anthony K. McGrogan, Jeffrey R. Roeder, Daniel H. Gomez, Arjang M. Hourtash, Thomas Brennan-Marquez +1 more 2023-01-24 $117,453,000
11457989 Surgical drape installation aid Craig R. Ramstad 2022-10-04 $224,685,000
11219497 Surgical apparatus including a sterile adapter having mechanical lockouts 2022-01-11 $95,307,000
11020190 Automated instrument preload engage/disengage mechanism Todd R. Solomon 2021-06-01 $89,064,000
11020191 Automatic manipulator assembly deployment for draping Nicola Diolaiti, Jeffrey D. Brown, Daniel H. Gomez, Anthony K. McGrogan, Probal Mitra +1 more 2021-06-01 $89,064,000
10918449 Surgical system instrument manipulator Todd R. Solomon, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Nicola Diolaiti, Daniel H. Gomez +3 more 2021-02-16 $135,386,000
10864048 Flux disambiguation for teleoperated surgical systems Thomas G. Cooper 2020-12-15 $257,562,000
10856946 Surgical system instrument manipulator Todd R. Solomon, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Nicola Diolaiti, Daniel H. Gomez +3 more 2020-12-08 $171,075,000
D862693 Surgical system instrument interface sterile adapter Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht 2019-10-08
9096033 Surgical system instrument sterile adapter Anthony K. McGrogan, Craig R. Ramstad 2015-08-04 $22,482,000