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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Richard Mueller — 28 Patents

NUNuvasive: 12 patents #44 of 328Top 15%
TSTheken Spine: 6 patents #10 of 44Top 25%
LSLife Spine: 4 patents #18 of 51Top 40%
VOVolk Optical: 3 patents #3 of 13Top 25%
GMGlobus Medical: 1 patents #435 of 575Top 80%
GLGreat Belief International Limited: 1 patents #6 of 15Top 40%
St. Charles, IL: #13 of 142 inventorsTop 10%
Illinois: #2,273 of 84,256 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Richard Mueller has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nuvasive. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2025. Richard Mueller ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Richard Mueller in St. Charles, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2016.peak 42000: 2 patents20002001: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12285195 Systems and methods for introducing a bone anchor Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2025-04-29
12064153 Lateral spine plate with set screw locking of bone screws Garrett D. Lauf 2024-08-20
11311320 Systems and methods for introducing a bone anchor Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2022-04-26 $11,214,000
11135065 3-D printed orthopedic implants Eugene Shoshtaev, Gregory Palagi, Daniel Predick, Michael S. Butler 2021-10-05
10945800 Patient-side mechanized surgical system Matthew Robert Penny, Nicholas J. Bender, Mohan Nathan, Nicholas J. Jardine, Galen C. Robertson +5 more 2021-03-16
10856919 Lateral spine plate with set screw locking of bone screws Garrett D. Lauf 2020-12-08
D884178 Orthopedic implant Garrett D. Lauf, Michael S. Butler, Matthew S. Coyne 2020-05-12
10426526 Systems and methods for introducing a bone anchor Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2019-10-01 $9,722,000
10004544 Systems and methods for introducing a bone anchor Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2018-06-26 $21,161,000
D799949 Favored angle screw Tara Stevenson, Steven Vanni 2017-10-17
9757166 Systems and methods for holding and implanting bone anchors Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2017-09-12 $4,229,000
9615866 Surgical fixation system and related methods William D. Smith, Chad Grant, Eric Dasso, Christopher Huntington, Christopher M. Campbell 2017-04-11 $17,555,000
9492208 Systems and methods for holding and implanting bone anchors Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2016-11-15 $20,097,000
D757943 Spinous process plate Benjamin Arnold, Erika Lin, Jeremy Malik, Hyun Bae, Richard Lazar 2016-05-31
9333040 Mechanized multi-instrument surgical system Carson Shellenberger, Keith Phillip Laby, Nicholas J. Bender, Galen C. Robertson, Nicholas J. Jardine +5 more 2016-05-10
D754857 Bone plate Chad Grant, Eric Dasso, Robert German, Ryan Donahoe 2016-04-26
9192415 Systems and methods for holding and implanting bone anchors Benajmin Arnold, Eric Dasso, Justin Doose, Robert German 2015-11-24 $8,148,000
D734853 Bone plate Chad Grant, Eric Dasso, Robert German, Ryan Donahoe 2015-07-21
8343190 Systems and methods for spinous process fixation Benjamin Arnold, Eric Dasso 2013-01-01
8152851 Expandable corpectomy device Andrew C. Budd, Marc Silski, Nickolas G. Kriska 2012-04-10
7918876 Spinal implant adjustment device Andrew C. Budd, Marc Silski 2011-04-05
7544208 Adjustable corpectomy apparatus Andrew C. Budd 2009-06-09
7491209 Instrument guide and implant holder Randall R. Theken, Morton B. Albert 2009-02-17
7344537 Bone fixation rod system 2008-03-18
7278997 Instrument guide and implant holder Randall R. Theken, Morton B. Albert 2007-10-09