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Korey Kline — 81 Patents

SYSyntheon: 16 patents #5 of 29Top 20%
Johnson & Johnson: 14 patents #701 of 7,810Top 9%
HYHy-Pat: 12 patents #1 of 7Top 15%
ECEdwards Lifesciences Cardiaq: 10 patents #10 of 41Top 25%
CLCovidien Lp: 7 patents #679 of 2,878Top 25%
ELEdwards Lifesciences: 7 patents #230 of 941Top 25%
CICilag Gmbh International: 3 patents #354 of 874Top 45%
EXExquadrum: 1 patents #6 of 11Top 55%
Miami, FL: #11 of 4,605 inventorsTop 1%
Florida: #249 of 67,251 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #22,096 of 4,157,543Top 1%
81 Patents All Time
Korey Kline has been granted 81 US patents while listed as an inventor at Syntheon. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2025. Korey Kline ranks #22,096 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.53%). Patent records list Korey Kline in Miami, FL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2014.peak 81998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 7 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 5 patents2005: 1 patents20052008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents2011: 5 patents20112012: 6 patents2013: 5 patents2014: 8 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents2017: 8 patents20172018: 6 patents2019: 4 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 81 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12364596 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Derek Dee Deville, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2025-07-22
12251097 Multiple-firing suture fixation device and methods for using and manufacturing same Derek Dee Deville, Kevin W. Smith, Michael Walter Kirk, Carlos Rivera, George Nunez +8 more 2025-03-18
12059150 Surgical stapling and cutting device Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville 2024-08-13
11877742 Adjustable compression staple and method for stapling with adjustable compression Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville 2024-01-23
11707356 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Derek Dee Deville, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2023-07-25
11471150 Multiple-firing suture fixation device and methods for using and manufacturing same Kevin W. Smith, Max Pierre Mendez, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +4 more 2022-10-18 $61,714,000
11234695 Surgical stapling and cutting device Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville 2022-02-01
11172924 Multiple-firing suture fixation device and methods for using and manufacturing same Derek Dee Deville, Kevin W. Smith, Michael Walter Kirk, Carlos Rivera, George Nunez +8 more 2021-11-16 $179,246,000
10980650 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Derek Dee Deville, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2021-04-20
10920714 Stable hybrid rocket technology Kevin E. Mahaffy, Byron Henning, Philip C. Pelfrey, Eric Schmidt, Elias Wilson 2021-02-16
10874508 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Derek Dee Deville, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2020-12-29
10835112 Variably flexible insertion device and method for variably flexing an insertion device Kevin W. Smith, Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer 2020-11-17
10806331 Torque-transmitting, variably-flexible, locking insertion device and method for operating the insertion device Kevin W. Smith, Derek Dee Deville, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Matthew A. Palmer, Carlos Rivera 2020-10-20
10624630 Multiple-firing securing device and methods for using and manufacturing same Derek Dee Deville, Kevin W. Smith, Michael Walter Kirk, Carlos Rivera, George Nunez +8 more 2020-04-21 $61,479,000
10568620 Adjustable compression staple and method for stapling with adjustable compression Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville 2020-02-25 $73,835,000
10478295 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Max Pierre Mendez, Matthew A. Palmer +3 more 2019-11-19
10327759 Multiple-firing suture fixation device and methods for using and manufacturing same Kevin W. Smith, Max Pierre Mendez, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +4 more 2019-06-25 $45,320,000
10327758 Multiple-firing suture fixation device and methods for using and manufacturing same Kevin W. Smith, Max Pierre Mendez, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +4 more 2019-06-25 $45,320,000
10238514 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Derek Dee Deville, Max Pierre Mendez +5 more 2019-03-26
10123683 Variably flexible insertion device and method for variably flexing an insertion device Kevin W. Smith, Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer 2018-11-13
10022180 Cordless medical cauterization and cutting device Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Sean McBrayer 2018-07-17
10016193 Multiple-firing crimp device and methods for using and manufacturing same Kevin W. Smith, Max Pierre Mendez, Matthew A. Palmer, M. Sean McBrayer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr. +4 more 2018-07-10 $70,681,000
10004876 Torque-transmitting, locking instrument holder and method for operating the instrument holder Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville, Carlos Rivera 2018-06-26
9913716 Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same Richard Cartledge, Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Max Pierre Mendez, Matthew A. Palmer +3 more 2018-03-13
9855038 Surgical stapling and cutting device Kevin W. Smith, Matthew A. Palmer, Derek Dee Deville 2018-01-02 $167,355,000