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Michael A. Murray — 74 Patents

Johnson & Johnson: 40 patents #148 of 7,810Top 2%
MVMosel Vitelic: 17 patents #6 of 482Top 2%
CICilag Gmbh International: 6 patents #246 of 874Top 30%
DPDevicor Medical Products: 3 patents #76 of 164Top 50%
SESenmed: 1 patents #9 of 22Top 45%
CTCts: 1 patents #192 of 352Top 55%
BCBeijing Apollo Ding Rong Solar Technology Co.: 1 patents #35 of 51Top 70%
PTPromos Technologies: 1 patents #115 of 311Top 40%
Brentwood, CA: #2 of 230 inventorsTop 1%
California: #4,029 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #26,215 of 4,157,543Top 1%
74 Patents All Time
Michael A. Murray has been granted 74 US patents while listed as an inventor at Johnson & Johnson. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in December 2025. Michael A. Murray ranks #26,215 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.63%). Patent records list Michael A. Murray in Brentwood, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 74 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12484902 Clip retention for surgical clip applier Michael J. Stokes, Gregory G. Scott, Ryan J. Laurent, Disha V. Labhasetwar 2025-12-02
11986190 Surgical clip applier Disha V. Labhasetwar, Michael J. Stokes, Gregory G. Scott, Chester O. Baxter, III, Kevin A. Larson +1 more 2024-05-21
11918221 Clip retention for surgical clip applier Michael J. Stokes, Gregory G. Scott, Ryan J. Laurent, Disha V. Labhasetwar 2024-03-05
11801071 Surgical access device Christopher W. Widenhouse, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David K. Norvell, Robert P. Gill +3 more 2023-10-31
11484311 Staple cartridge comprising a staple driver arrangement Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Darrel M. Powell, Christopher J. Hess, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jerome R. Morgan +1 more 2022-11-01
11446039 Surgical clip applier Disha V. Labhasetwar, Michael J. Stokes, Gregory G. Scott, Chester O. Baxter, III, Kevin A. Larson +1 more 2022-09-20
11389192 Method of suturing a trocar path incision Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Gregory J. Bakos, Layne D. Christopher, Rebecca J. Gettinger, Jason L. Harris +19 more 2022-07-19
10869690 Trocar obturator with transverse needle ports Shailendra K. Parihar, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Brian D. Schings, Melinda Tellmann +2 more 2020-12-22 $222,635,000
10675031 Clip retention for surgical clip applier Michael J. Stokes, Gregory G. Scott, Ryan J. Laurent, Disha V. Labhasetwar 2020-06-09 $94,103,000
10617429 Surgical clip applier Disha V. Labhasetwar, Michael J. Stokes, Gregory G. Scott, Chester O. Baxter, III, Kevin A. Larson +1 more 2020-04-14 $167,944,000
10588661 Surgical access device Christopher W. Widenhouse, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David K. Norvell, Robert P. Gill +3 more 2020-03-17 $56,043,000
10420553 Staple cartridge comprising a staple driver arrangement Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Christopher J. Hess, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jerome R. Morgan 2019-09-24 $91,257,000
10321909 Staple cartridge comprising a staple including deformable members Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Christopher J. Hess, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jerome R. Morgan 2019-06-18 $111,100,000
10172616 Surgical staple cartridge Jerome R. Morgan, Christopher J. Hess, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Andrew M. Zwolinski 2019-01-08 $79,972,000
10080565 Surgical stapling instrument Alessandro Pastorelli, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Federico Bilotti, Laszlo Csiky, Todd Phillip Omaits 2018-09-25 $208,077,000
10016215 Surgical access device Christopher W. Widenhouse, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David K. Norvell, Robert P. Gill +3 more 2018-07-10 $104,961,000
9795365 MRI biopsy apparatus incorporating a sleeve and multi-function obturator Mark Tsonton, Timothy G. Dietz, John A. Hibner, Jessica P. Leimbach, Michael J. Andreyko +1 more 2017-10-24
9687272 Surgical access device Christopher W. Widenhouse, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David K. Norvell, Robert P. Gill +3 more 2017-06-27 $57,687,000
9638770 MRI biopsy apparatus incorporating an imageable penetrating portion Timothy G. Dietz, Keshava Datta, John A. Hibner, Robert Hughes, Mark Tsonton 2017-05-02
9561032 Staple cartridge comprising a staple driver arrangement Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Christopher J. Hess, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jerome R. Morgan, Steven G. Hall 2017-02-07 $119,895,000
9446537 Methods and apparatuses for cutting of thin film solar cells Kedar Hardikar 2016-09-20
9131835 Surgical access device Christopher W. Widenhouse, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David K. Norvell, Robert P. Gill +3 more 2015-09-15 $45,663,000
8945163 Methods and devices for cutting and fastening tissue James W. Voegele, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Christopher J. Hess, Robert P. Gill, Darrel M. Powell 2015-02-03 $109,542,000
8812100 Device and method for self-positioning of a stimulation device to activate brown adipose tissue depot in a supraclavicular fossa region James W. Voegele, Thomas Albrecht, Tamara Colette Baynham, David Cagle, Anthony DiUbaldi +3 more 2014-08-19 $49,487,000
8567656 Staple cartridges for forming staples having differing formed staple heights Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Darrel M. Powell, Christopher J. Hess, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jerome R. Morgan +1 more 2013-10-29 $54,345,000