Inventor · Montesano, WA, US

John H. Hughes

60Patents
24h-index
47Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 22, 1977 → Nov 21, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5820553A Identification system and method for radiation therapy Human Necessities 327 Expired
US5745545A Alignment system and method for intra-operative radiation therapy Human Necessities 142 Expired
US7639853B2 Method of and system for predicting dose delivery Human Necessities 128 Active
US5757881A Redundant field-defining arrays for a radiation system Human Necessities 103 Expired
US8406844B2 Method for modification of radiotherapy treatment delivery Human Necessities 94 Active
US5784582A Data processing system having memory controller for supplying current request and next request for access to the shared memory pipeline Physics 77 Expired
US6052430A Dynamic sub-space intensity modulation Physics 75 Expired
US5754622A System and method for verifying the amount of radiation delivered to an object Human Necessities 68 Expired
US7639854B2 Method and system for processing data relating to a radiation therapy treatment plan Human Necessities 67 Active
US7773788B2 Method and system for evaluating quality assurance criteria in delivery of a treatment plan Human Necessities 67 Active
US6308219A Routing table lookup implemented using M-trie having nodes duplicated in multiple memory banks Electricity 66 Expired
US5621779A Apparatus and method for delivering radiation to an object and for displaying delivered radiation Human Necessities 64 Expired
US7346144B2 In vivo planning and treatment of cancer therapy Human Necessities 64 Expired
US6018763A High performance shared memory for a bridge router supporting cache coherency Electricity 62 Expired
US8767917B2 System and method of delivering radiation therapy to a moving region of interest Human Necessities 60 Active
US8232535B2 System and method of treating a patient with radiation therapy Human Necessities 60 Active
US7609809B2 System and method of generating contour structures using a dose volume histogram Human Necessities 54 Active
US6600810B1 Multiple layer multileaf collimator design to improve resolution and reduce leakage Human Necessities 54 Expired
US9731148B2 Radiation therapy imaging and delivery utilizing coordinated motion of gantry and couch Human Necessities 44 Active
US6142925A Method and system for increasing resolution in a radiotherapy system Human Necessities 40 Expired
US5439348A Turbine shroud segment including a coating layer having varying thickness Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US5847403A System and method for reducing radiation leakage with intensity modulated treatments Human Necessities 32 Expired
US6510199B1 Method and system for providing radiation treatment to a patient Human Necessities 31 Expired
US5379951A Comminuting apparatus Performing Operations; Transporting 28 Expired
US4493045A Test vector indexing method and apparatus Physics 23 Expired

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