Inventor · Lake Villa, IL, US

Brian C. Case

122Patents
23h-index
62Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 27, 2002 → Jun 4, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7618447B2 Artificial valve prosthesis with improved flow dynamics Human Necessities 404 Expired
US7153324B2 Prosthetic valve devices and methods of making such devices Human Necessities 387 Expired
US7717952B2 Artificial prostheses with preferred geometries Human Necessities 200 Active
US7628803B2 Implantable vascular device Human Necessities 197 Expired
US8221492B2 Artificial valve prosthesis with improved flow dynamics Human Necessities 164 Expired
US7128759B2 Implantable medical device with constrained expansion Human Necessities 162 Expired
US8157810B2 Prosthesis adapted for placement under external imaging Human Necessities 120 Active
US7563277B2 Removable covering for implantable frame projections Human Necessities 106 Active
US7361189B2 Prosthetic valve with pores Human Necessities 91 Expired
US7402171B2 Prosthetic valve that permits retrograde flow Human Necessities 84 Expired
US8292938B2 Placement of multiple intraluminal medical devices within a body vessel Human Necessities 59 Active
US7871430B2 Medical device delivery system Human Necessities 57 Active
US8540760B2 Tubular devices having reversible components for deployment of endoluminal occluders and related methods and systems Human Necessities 55 Active
US7604661B2 Implantable vascular device Human Necessities 55 Active
US8303647B2 Medical valve leaflet structures with peripheral region receptive to tissue ingrowth Human Necessities 46 Active
US8959617B2 Authorization scheme to minimize the use of unauthorized medical device disposables on a medical device instrument Electricity 43 Active
US7625399B2 Intralumenally-implantable frames Human Necessities 34 Active
US7686844B2 Prosthetic valve for implantation in a body vessel Human Necessities 33 Expired
US7582110B2 Implantable frame with variable compliance Human Necessities 30 Expired
US7449027B2 Modifying fluid flow in a body vessel lumen to promote intraluminal flow-sensitive processes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US7658759B2 Intralumenally implantable frames Human Necessities 28 Active
US7905826B2 Methods for modifying vascular vessel walls Human Necessities 26 Active
US7909862B2 Delivery systems and methods for deploying expandable intraluminal medical devices Human Necessities 26 Expired
US7387604B2 Methods for treating valve-associated regions of vascular vessels Human Necessities 21 Expired
US8382822B2 Implantable vascular device Human Necessities 21 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.