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Robert Benkowski — 17 Patents

MTMicromed Technology: 8 patents #2 of 11Top 20%
NASA: 3 patents #644 of 3,881Top 20%
MCMicromed Co.: 1 patents #4 of 11Top 40%
REReliantheart: 1 patents #3 of 8Top 40%
Houston, TX: #1,228 of 21,073 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #8,472 of 125,132 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Robert Benkowski has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micromed Technology. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in November 2023. Robert Benkowski ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Robert Benkowski in Houston, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11826314 Medication adherence apparatus and methods of use Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Nestorius Wiegandt, Ashok Kumar Krishnamurthy, James Vincent Kokal, Javier E. Oliver +1 more 2023-11-28
D951435 Cannula Tadashi Motomura 2022-05-10
D929576 Cannula Tadashi Motomura 2021-08-31
10888502 Medication adherence apparatus and methods of use Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Nestorius Wiegandt, Ashok Kumar Krishnamurthy, James Vincent Kokal, Javier E. Oliver +1 more 2021-01-12
9861729 Artificial heart system Gino Morello 2018-01-09
8323173 Method and system for physiologic control of an implantable blood pump Gino Morello 2012-12-04 $2,477,000
8303482 Method and system for physiologic control of a blood pump Heinrich Schima, Michael Vollkron, Gino Morello 2012-11-06
8190390 Device, method, and system for calibration of a flow meter used in conjunction with a ventricular assist device Gino Morello, Bryan Lynch 2012-05-29 $3,655,000
7856335 Device, method, and system for calibration of a flow meter used in conjunction with a ventricular assist device Gino Morello, Bryan Lynch 2010-12-21 $4,496,000
6652447 Method of controlling an implantable pump system Gino Morello 2003-11-25 $2,006,000
6605032 Implantable pump system Bryan Lynch, Gino Morello, William Winstrom 2003-08-12 $4,533,000
6183412 Implantable pump system Bryan Lynch, Gino Morello, William Winstrom 2001-02-06 $20,178,000
6058958 Pulsatile flow system and method Bryan Lynch 2000-05-09 $21,059,000
5947892 Rotary blood pump Cetin Kiris, Dochan Kwak, Bernard J. Rosenbaum, James W. Bacak, Michael E. DeBakey 1999-09-07 $18,575,000
5692882 Axial pump Richard J. Bozeman, Jr., James W. Akkerman, Gregory S. Aber, George Arthur Van Damm, James W. Bacak +1 more 1997-12-02
5678306 Method for reducing pumping damage to blood Richard J. Bozeman, Jr., James W. Akkerman, Gregory S. Aber, George Arthur Van Damm, James W. Bacak +1 more 1997-10-21
5527159 Rotary blood pump Richard J. Bozeman, Jr., James W. Akkerman, Gregory S. Aber, George A. Van Damm, James W. Bacak +1 more 1996-06-18