Lewis J. Thomas, III
44Patents
22h-index
64Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: May 30, 1986 → Dec 7, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5186177A | Method and apparatus for applying synthetic aperture focusing techniques to a catheter based system for high frequency ultrasound imaging of small vessels | Human Necessities | 192 | Expired |
| US6048315A | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic synthetic transmit aperture imaging using orthogonal complementary codes | Physics | 93 | Expired |
| US6551246B1 | Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound images | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US6309356A | Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound images | Physics | 85 | Expired |
| US4911170A | High frequency focused ultrasonic transducer for invasive tissue characterization | Human Necessities | 81 | Expired |
| US5329930A | Phased array sector scanner with multiplexed acoustic transducer elements | Physics | 76 | Expired |
| US5226847A | Apparatus and method for acquiring imaging signals with reduced number of interconnect wires | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US6146328A | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming using golay-coded excitation | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US7366992B2 | Method and system for displaying and/or manipulating medical image data | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US6494841B1 | Medical diagnostic ultrasound system using contrast pulse sequence imaging | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US4979199A | Microfocus X-ray tube with optical spot size sensing means | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US5349524A | Color flow imaging system utilizing a time domain adaptive wall filter | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US7567016B2 | Multi-dimensional ultrasound transducer array | Performing Operations; Transporting | 35 | Expired |
| US6113545A | Ultrasonic beamforming with improved signal-to-noise ratio using orthogonal complementary sets | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US6155980A | Ultrasonic imaging system with beamforming using unipolar or bipolar coded excitation | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US4870279A | High resolution X-ray detector | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6491633B1 | Medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method for contrast agent image beamformation | Human Necessities | 26 | Expired |
| US5851187A | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming with spatially encoded transmits | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US5349525A | Color flow imaging system utilizing a frequency domain wall filter | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US4825117A | Temperature compensated piezoelectric transducer assembly | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US5984869A | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming using golay-coded excitation | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5445156A | Method for adaptively filtering doppler signals using a complex time domain filter | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US4921415A | Cure monitoring apparatus having high temperature ultrasonic transducers | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US10506965B2 | Bladder health monitoring system and related methods and devices | Human Necessities | 20 | Active |
| US4758803A | Marginal oscillator for acoustic monitoring of curing of plastics | Physics | 19 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.