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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%
📍 Kings Mills, OH: #1 of 12 inventorsTop 9%
🗺 Ohio: #189 of 73,341 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #14,692 of 4,157,543Top 1%
99
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 99 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11103241 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard 2021-08-31
11051813 Powered surgical instruments with firing system lockout arrangements Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Steven G. Hall, David C. Yates, Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger +1 more 2021-07-06
10966722 Adjunct materials and methods of using same in surgical methods for tissue sealing Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris 2021-04-06
10932778 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 2021-03-02
10898184 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard 2021-01-26
10835250 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 2020-11-17
10751076 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument with electric actuator directional control assembly Ryan J. Laurent, Brett E. Swensgard 2020-08-25
10743851 Interchangeable tools for surgical instruments Jeffrey S. Swayze, Thomas W. Huitema, Glen A. Armstrong, Shailendra K. Parihar, Donna L. Korvick +8 more 2020-08-18
10736628 Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Brett E. Swensgard, Ryan J. Laurent 2020-08-11
10716568 Surgical stapling apparatus with control features operable with one hand Steven G. Hall, Randall J. Tanguay, Jeffrey D. Messerly, Galen C. Robertson, Andrew M. Zwolinski +22 more 2020-07-21
10682142 Surgical stapling apparatus including an articulation system Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Kevin R. Doll, William D. Kelly, Ronald J. Kolata, Joshua R. Uth +1 more 2020-06-16
10610226 Methods and devices for sealing stapled tissue Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Jeffrey S. Swayze, Mark S. Zeiner, Thomas Lee Craven +1 more 2020-04-07
10595835 Surgical instrument comprising a removable battery Wendy A. Kerr, Richard F. Schwemberger, Richard L. Leimbach, Brett E. Swensgard, Frederick E. Shelton, IV +3 more 2020-03-24
10588623 Adhesive film laminate Katherine J. Schmid, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2020-03-17
10542988 End effector comprising an anvil including projections extending therefrom Emily A. Schellin, Jason L. Harris, Charles J. Scheib, Jerome R. Morgan, Lauren S. Weaner +3 more 2020-01-28
10492787 Orientable battery for a surgical instrument David C. Yates, Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2019-12-03
10405854 Surgical stapling cartridge with layer retention features Katherine J. Schmid, John L. Stammen, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2019-09-10
10363031 Tissue thickness compensators for surgical staplers Johnny H. Alexander, III, Cortney E. Henderson, Christopher C. Miller, John P. Measamer, Katherine J. Schmid +3 more 2019-07-30
10327776 Surgical stapling buttresses and adjunct materials Jason L. Harris, Jerome R. Morgan, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Charles J. Scheib, Lucia M. Casella 2019-06-25
10188393 Surgical instrument battery comprising a plurality of cells David C. Yates, Daniel J. Abbott, Richard F. Schwemberger, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2019-01-29
10172611 Adjunct materials and methods of using same in surgical methods for tissue sealing Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris 2019-01-08
10149683 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 2018-12-11
D831209 Surgical stapler cartridge Thomas W. Huitema, Michael E. Setser 2018-10-16
10039529 Power control arrangements for surgical instruments and batteries Wendy A. Kerr, Richard F. Schwemberger, Richard L. Leimbach, Brett E. Swensgard, Frederick E. Shelton, IV +2 more 2018-08-07
9943310 Surgical stapling buttresses and adjunct materials Jason L. Harris, Charles J. Scheib, Lucia M. Casella, Jerome R. Morgan, Frederick E. Shelton, IV 2018-04-17