Gerald M. Mitchell
24Patents
12h-index
26Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 10, 1986 → Mar 19, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5558667A | Method and apparatus for treating vascular lesions | Human Necessities | 164 | Expired |
| US6096031A | High repetition rate erbium:YAG laser for tissue ablation | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US5132980A | Method and device for preconditioning a laser having a solid state gain medium | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6192529A | Modular shower arm construction | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US5642370A | High repetition rate erbium; YAG laser for tissue ablation | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US6395000B1 | High repetition rate erbium: YAG laser for tissue ablation | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US5644585A | High repetition rate Eribum-YAG laser for tissue ablation | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5911718A | Method and apparatus for treating vascular lesions | Human Necessities | 17 | Expired |
| US5754573A | Method and apparatus for treating vascular lesions | Human Necessities | 17 | Expired |
| US5327442A | Solid state laser with dual cooling loops | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US4862469A | Suppression of the second intracavity pulse in a synchronously pumped dye laser | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US8858542B2 | Side-firing fiber delivery device with active cooling cap | Human Necessities | 12 | Active |
| US7869016B2 | Fiber damage detection and protection device | Human Necessities | 12 | Active |
| US8881735B2 | Flash vaporization surgical systems and method | Human Necessities | 12 | Active |
| US5375132A | Solid state laser with interleaved output | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US5257989A | Contact laser delivery probe | Human Necessities | 11 | Expired |
| US9844410B2 | Flash vaporization surgical systems | Human Necessities | 10 | Active |
| US9622819B2 | Flash vaporization surgical systems | Human Necessities | 9 | Active |
| US5226054A | Cavity mirror for suppressing high gain laser wavelengths | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US5781574A | Liquid circulation system for cooling a laser head | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US9456871B2 | Side-firing fiber delivery device with active cooling cap | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US9980776B2 | Side-firing fiber delivery device with active cooling cap | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US7995638B2 | High power, end pumped laser with off-peak pumping | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US11253317B2 | Soft tissue selective ablation surgical systems | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.