John W. Willis
35Patents
16h-index
66Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: May 14, 1990 → Jul 12, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8801735B2 | Surgical circular stapler with tissue retention arrangements | Human Necessities | 1,546 | Active |
| US8672207B2 | Transwall visualization arrangements and methods for surgical circular staplers | Human Necessities | 1,490 | Active |
| US8801734B2 | Circular stapling instruments with secondary cutting arrangements and methods of using same | Human Necessities | 1,478 | Active |
| US8783543B2 | Tissue acquisition arrangements and methods for surgical stapling devices | Human Necessities | 1,475 | Active |
| US9381058B2 | Recharge system for medical devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1,415 | Active |
| US9597143B2 | Sterile medical instrument charging device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1,287 | Active |
| US9050100B2 | Surgical instrument with feedback at end effector | Human Necessities | 1,189 | Active |
| US9597075B2 | Tissue acquisition arrangements and methods for surgical stapling devices | Human Necessities | 1,105 | Active |
| US9095346B2 | Medical device usage data processing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1,015 | Active |
| US8882792B2 | Ultrasonic surgical apparatus with silicon waveguide | Human Necessities | 568 | Active |
| US9724120B2 | Clamp arm features for ultrasonic surgical instrument | Human Necessities | 133 | Active |
| US9737735B2 | Ultrasonic surgical apparatus with silicon waveguide | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 70 | Active |
| US10470770B2 | Circular surgical fastening devices with tissue acquisition arrangements | Human Necessities | 44 | Active |
| US5180050A | Pushbutton rotary switch | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 43 | Expired |
| US11324527B2 | Ultrasonic and electrosurgical devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Active |
| US5590567A | Snap retainer and retainer system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US5245886A | Rotary temperature mechanism | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US5012054A | Closely spaced back-lit push button array | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US5378806A | Fusion protein produced by retrovirus-mediated secretion | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 8 | Expired |
| US11478247B2 | Tissue acquisition arrangements and methods for surgical stapling devices | Human Necessities | 7 | Active |
| US10660695B2 | Sterile medical instrument charging device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Active |
| US9727050B2 | Processing machinery protection and fault prediction data natively in a distributed control system | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US10311703B1 | Detection of spikes and faults in vibration trend data | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US10143513B2 | Gear driven coupling between ultrasonic transducer and waveguide in surgical instrument | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
| US10725448B2 | Sensor power control and signal conditioning circuit for machinery monitoring system | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.