Karl Thiele
56Patents
15h-index
72Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 10, 1986 → Mar 6, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5997479A | Phased array acoustic systems with intra-group processors | Physics | 200 | Expired |
| US5993390A | Segmented 3-D cardiac ultrasound imaging method and apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 132 | Expired |
| US7356178B2 | System and method for improved multiple-dimension image displays | Physics | 93 | Expired |
| US6126602A | Phased array acoustic systems with intra-group processors | Physics | 82 | Expired |
| US5462057A | Ultrasound imaging system using line splicing and parallel receive beam formation | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US6464638B1 | Ultrasound imaging system and method for spatial compounding | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5322068A | Method and apparatus for dynamically steering ultrasonic phased arrays | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US6689064B2 | Ultrasound clutter filter | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US6517491B1 | Transducer with spatial sensor | Human Necessities | 21 | Expired |
| US4790323A | Flow imaging detector | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US10702242B2 | Augmented reality interface for assisting a user to operate an ultrasound device | Physics | 20 | Active |
| US6224557A | Ultrasonic method using adaptive clutter filter to remove tissue wall motion | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US7758508B1 | Ultrasound-imaging systems and methods for a user-guided three-dimensional volume-scan sequence | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US7648461B2 | User interface for a three-dimensional colour ultrasound imaging system | Human Necessities | 16 | Expired |
| US8137272B2 | Ultrasonic synthetic transmit focusing with a multiline beamformer | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US4926872A | Ultrasonic transducer system and method for the operation thereof | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7704208B2 | Synchronizing a swiveling three-dimensional ultrasound display with an oscillating object | Human Necessities | 15 | Active |
| US6824514B2 | System and method for visualizing scene shift in ultrasound scan sequence | Human Necessities | 14 | Expired |
| US4640292A | Extending sample volume in pulsed Doppler systems | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6508764B1 | Aberration correction apparatus and methods | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US5188114A | Method and apparatus for elimination of mirroring in signal processing system | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US10709415B2 | Methods and apparatuses for ultrasound imaging of lungs | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US10856848B2 | Augmented reality interface for assisting a user to operate an ultrasound device | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US5669386A | Ultrasonic flow measurement system employing cross-correlation of baseband reflection data | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| USD954972S1 | Ultrasound probe | General | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.