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William T. Bales — 32 Patents

RARapidpulse: 7 patents #1 of 9Top 15%
S2Syntheon 2.0: 6 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
Medtronic: 2 patents #3,533 of 6,367Top 60%
Miami, FL: #52 of 4,605 inventorsTop 2%
Florida: #1,200 of 67,251 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
William T. Bales has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Rapidpulse. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2025. William T. Bales ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list William T. Bales in Miami, FL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2025.peak 81980: 3 patents19801981: 1 patents19812012: 2 patents20122019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 4 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 5 patents20242025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12501176 Data collection by a dynamic area of interest camera technique Craig van Vliet 2025-12-16
12471936 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-11-18
12471937 Aspiration thrombectomy systems and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Alejandro N. Calderon, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen +3 more 2025-11-18
12471938 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-11-18
12465380 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-11-11
12446903 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric David Peterson, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-10-21
12433617 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-10-07
12185959 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2025-01-07
12171438 Recapturable left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for recapturing a left atrial appendage clip Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer +5 more 2024-12-24 $65,944,000
12082830 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-09-10
12059161 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-08-13
12004757 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-06-11
11918240 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2024-03-05
11793524 Recapturable left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for recapturing a left atrial appendage clip Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer +5 more 2023-10-24 $54,921,000
11712249 Left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for clipping the LAA Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Michael Walter Kirk, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +1 more 2023-08-01
11547426 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2023-01-10
11406402 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2022-08-09
11273239 Breast milk expression apparatus and system Noreen Gordon Sablotsky, Rachael Sablotsky Kish, Kathryn Garriott Sablotsky, Scott R. Arp, Paul John Grata +3 more 2022-03-15
11191547 Left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for clipping the LAA Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer +3 more 2021-12-07
D923678 Battle robot Isaac Lubarsky, Tyler Bond, Kyle Awner, Alexander Mattaway 2021-06-29
10925615 Recapturable left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for recapturing a left atrial appendage clip Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer +5 more 2021-02-23
10918392 Left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for clipping the LAA Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., M. Sean McBrayer +1 more 2021-02-16
10751507 Thermally controlled variable-flexibility catheters and methods of manufacturing same Matthew A. Palmer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Tyler Bond, Eric Petersen, Derek Dee Deville +1 more 2020-08-25
10722253 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge +2 more 2020-07-28
10531883 Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for thrombus removal with aspiration catheter Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Petersen, Richard Cartledge 2020-01-14