John E. Abele
26Patents
25h-index
35Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 27, 1978 → Jun 22, 2005
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6004269A | Catheters for imaging, sensing electrical potentials, and ablating tissue | Human Necessities | 1,700 | Expired |
| US5403311A | Electro-coagulation and ablation and other electrotherapeutic treatments of body tissue | Human Necessities | 1,329 | Expired |
| US5190541A | Surgical instrument and method | Human Necessities | 1,233 | Expired |
| US5860974A | Heart ablation catheter with expandable electrode and method of coupling energy to an electrode on a catheter shaft | Human Necessities | 1,167 | Expired |
| US5103804A | Expandable tip hemostatic probes and the like | Human Necessities | 582 | Expired |
| US5496311A | Physiologic low stress angioplasty | Human Necessities | 563 | Expired |
| US4951677A | Acoustic imaging catheter and the like | Human Necessities | 529 | Expired |
| US5372138A | Acousting imaging catheters and the like | Human Necessities | 529 | Expired |
| US5151100A | Heating catheters | Human Necessities | 443 | Expired |
| US4522212A | Endocardial electrode | Human Necessities | 380 | Expired |
| US6494881B1 | Apparatus and method for electrode-surgical tissue removal having a selectively insulated electrode | Human Necessities | 223 | Expired |
| US5385152A | Guidewire for crossing occlusions in blood vessels | Human Necessities | 183 | Expired |
| US5693014A | Balloon catheter | Human Necessities | 174 | Expired |
| US5746745A | Balloon catheter | Human Necessities | 137 | Expired |
| US5303714A | Guidewire for crossing occlusions in blood vessels | Human Necessities | 135 | Expired |
| US6010480A | Balloon catheter | Human Necessities | 128 | Expired |
| US6136258A | Method of forming a co-extruded balloon for medical purposes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 110 | Expired |
| US6277084A | Ultrasonic medical device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 87 | Expired |
| US6733473B1 | Adjustably stiffenable convertible catheter assembly | Human Necessities | 85 | Expired |
| US5704913A | Dilation catheter and method of treatment therewith | Human Necessities | 85 | Expired |
| US6482348B1 | Method of forming a co-extruded balloon for medical purposes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 78 | Expired |
| US6702781B1 | Adjustably stiffenable convertible catheter assembly | Human Necessities | 67 | Expired |
| US4772093A | Fiber-optic image-carrying device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 59 | Expired |
| US4235244A | Microbiological specimen sampling device | Human Necessities | 54 | Expired |
| US5465732A | Fluoroscopically viewable multifilar calibrated guidewire and method of measuring occlusions with calibrated guidewires | Human Necessities | 51 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.