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Stephen J. Blumenkranz

IS Intuitive Surgical: 101 patents #10 of 719Top 2%
IS Intuitive Surgical: 12 patents #11 of 88Top 15%
Applied Materials: 3 patents #2,994 of 7,310Top 45%
UN Unknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
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118
Patents All Time

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Showing 1–25 of 118 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12369999 Systems and methods for coupling components of a medical system Matthew D. Rohr Daniel, David W. Bailey, Christopher R. Carlson, Matthew D. Inouye 2025-07-29
12262965 Systems and methods for using a robotic medical system Scott L. Cassell, David W. Bailey, Timothy D. Boucher, Matthew D. Rohr Daniel 2025-04-01
12256911 Operating self-antagonistic drives of medical instruments Samuel Kwok Wai Au, Giuseppe Maria Prisco 2025-03-25
12161306 Systems and methods of accessing encapsulated targets Federico Barbagli, Christopher R. Carlson 2024-12-10
12137935 Low friction cannula seals for minimally invasive robotic surgery Bruce M. Schena, Randal P. Goldberg 2024-11-12
12048817 Backend mechanism of a catheter control system 2024-07-30
12011241 Flexible instrument with grooved steerable tube Anoop B. Kowshik, Carolyn M. Fenech 2024-06-18
11998176 Systems and methods for cleaning a minimally invasive instrument Carolyn M. Fenech, Christopher B. Allenby, Anoop B. Kowshik 2024-06-04
11944397 System and method for providing surgical instrument force feedback Lawton N. Verner 2024-04-02
11938281 Guide apparatus for delivery of an elongate device and methods of use Matthew D. Inouye, David W. Bailey, Matthew D. Rohr Daniel 2024-03-26
11899248 Systems and methods for optical fiber cleaning and interface particle reduction Matthew D. Rohr Daniel, Troy K. Adebar, David W. Bailey, Edward P. Donlon, Mark E. Froggatt +2 more 2024-02-13
11871914 Operating self-antagonistic drives of medical instruments Samuel Kwok Wai Au, Giuseppe Maria Prisco 2024-01-16
11793585 Systems and methods for using a robotic medical system Scott L. Cassell, David W. Bailey, Timothy D. Boucher, Matthew D. Rohr Daniel 2023-10-24
11759093 Surgical system including a non-white light general illuminator Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Brian D. Hoffman, Geoff Richmond, Tao Zhao 2023-09-19
11744654 Systems and methods for coupling components of a medical system Matthew D. Rohr Daniel, David W. Bailey, Christopher R. Carlson, Matthew D. Inouye 2023-09-05
11726106 Integrated Fiber Bragg Grating accelerometer in a surgical instrument Lawton N. Verner 2023-08-15
11707335 Wireless force sensor on a distal portion of a surgical instrument and method Brett J. Lockyer 2023-07-25
11666243 Systems and methods for reducing measurement error using optical fiber shape sensors Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Randall L. Schlesinger 2023-06-06
11650111 Ribbed force sensor Christopher J. Hasser 2023-05-16
11576565 Systems and methods for cleaning an endoscopic instrument Federico Barbagli, Tao Zhao 2023-02-14
11571264 Force sensor temperature compensation 2023-02-07
11497580 Cleaning of a surgical instrument force sensor 2022-11-15
11452545 Low friction cannula seals for minimally invasive robotic surgery Bruce M. Schena, Randal P. Goldberg 2022-09-27
11253144 Systems and methods for cleaning a minimally invasive instrument Carolyn M. Fenech, Anoop B. Kowshik, Christopher B. Allenby 2022-02-22
11241148 Systems and methods for cleaning an endoscopic instrument Federico Barbagli, Tao Zhao 2022-02-08