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Bret W. Smith

Johnson & Johnson: 69 patents #70 of 7,810Top 1%
CI Cilag Gmbh International: 27 patents #60 of 874Top 7%
UN Unknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
SE Sentrilock: 1 patents #15 of 25Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #14,692 of 4,157,543Top 1%
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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12262892 Powered surgical cutting and stapling apparatus with manually retractable firing system Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chad P. Boudreaux, Brett E. Swensgard +1 more 2025-04-01
12207835 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument with electric actuator directional control assembly Ryan J. Laurent, Brett E. Swensgard 2025-01-28
12171434 End effector coupling arrangements for a surgical cutting and stapling instrument William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jerome R. Morgan, Kyle P. Moore, Mark H. Ransick, Steven G. Hall +22 more 2024-12-24
12029415 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard 2024-07-09
12016560 Adjunct materials and methods of using same in surgical methods for tissue sealing Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris 2024-06-25
12016563 Surgical instrument battery comprising a plurality of cells David C. Yates, Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2024-06-25
11957795 Tissue thickness compensator configured to redistribute compressive forces Katherine J. Schmid, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2024-04-16
11911034 Adjunct materials and methods of using same in surgical methods for tissue sealing Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris 2024-02-27
11730477 Powered surgical system with manually retractable firing system Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chad P. Boudreaux, Brett E. Swensgard +1 more 2023-08-22
11684361 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard 2023-06-27
11617576 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard, Ryan J. Laurent 2023-04-04
11617575 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard, Ryan J. Laurent 2023-04-04
11607221 Adjunct materials and methods of using same in surgical methods for tissue sealing Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris 2023-03-21
11596402 Adjunct materials and methods of using same in surgical methods for tissue sealing Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris 2023-03-07
11583279 Powered surgical cutting and stapling apparatus with manually retractable firing system Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chad P. Boudreaux, Brett E. Swensgard +1 more 2023-02-21
11517304 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard, Ryan J. Laurent 2022-12-06
11471138 Power control arrangements for surgical instruments and batteries Wendy A. Kerr, Richard F. Schwemberger, Brett E. Swensgard, Richard L. Leimbach, Frederick E. Shelton, IV +2 more 2022-10-18
11452528 Articulation actuators for a surgical instrument Richard L. Leimbach, Cory G. Kimball, Geoffrey C. Hueil, Matthew S. Corbin 2022-09-27
11446034 Surgical stapling assembly comprising first and second actuation systems configured to perform different functions Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Kevin R. Doll, William D. Kelly, Ronald J. Kolata, Joshua R. Uth +1 more 2022-09-20
11432816 Articulation pin for a surgical instrument Richard L. Leimbach, Zhifan F. Huang, Gary S. Jaworek, Robbin B. Johnson 2022-09-06
11406377 Adhesive film laminate Katherine J. Schmid, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2022-08-09
11304697 Surgical stapler with deflectable distal tip Nicholas Fanelli, Robert J. Simms, Scott A. Jenkins, Matthew S. Corbin, Cory G. Kimball 2022-04-19
11291449 Surgical cutting instrument that analyzes tissue thickness Brett E. Swensgard, Ryan J. Laurent 2022-04-05
11202633 Surgical stapling buttresses and adjunct materials Jason L. Harris, Charles J. Scheib, Lucia M. Casella, Jerome R. Morgan, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2021-12-21
11154296 Anvil layer attached to a proximal end of an end effector Taylor W. Aronhalt, Katherine J. Schmid, Jeffrey S. Swayze, Cortney E. Henderson, Charles J. Scheib +1 more 2021-10-26