Manfred Kuster
24Patents
7h-index
25Co-inventors
69Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 8, 1984 → Oct 1, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6500115B2 | Endoscope | Human Necessities | 210 | Expired |
| US7435218B2 | Optical instrument, in particular an endoscope, having an interchangeable head | Physics | 167 | Expired |
| US5868482A | Color wheel and picture generation unit with a color wheel | Physics | 69 | Expired |
| US4592602A | Modular mounting rack system of vertical-type construction | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US6024453A | Method of rapidly producing color changes in an optical light path | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6639664B2 | Endoscope for inspection of an observation cavity | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6540389B1 | Lighting system for illumination of an observation space | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US9036021B2 | Autofocusing method and device for a microscope | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8614851B2 | Surgical fluorescence stereomicroscope | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8000004B2 | Microscope with centered illumination | Human Necessities | 3 | Active |
| US8941915B2 | Illuminating device for an operating microscope | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8154795B2 | Stereo microscope with beam splitter device | Human Necessities | 2 | Active |
| US10823947B2 | Illumination filter system and observation system for a multispectral fluorescence microscope, multispectral fluorescence microscope, and microscopying method | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10145796B2 | Illumination filter for an illumination filter system of a surgical multispectral fluorescence microscope having a spatial filter pattern | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8810639B2 | Endoscopic video measuring system | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
| US10823949B2 | Beam splitter device having at least two beamsplitting surfaces with different reflection-to-transmission ratios | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US8007107B2 | Illuminating apparatus for an operating microscope | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US8218234B2 | Illumination device for a microscope | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
| US10260716B2 | Illumination unit for medical devices, and energy supply unit for supplying the illumination unit with electrical energy | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 0 | Active |
| US8564880B2 | Zoom system for a microscope and method of operating such a zoom system | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10545326B2 | Illumination and observation system for an ophthalmic microscope, ophthalmic microscope and microscopying method using four red reflex observation pupils | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10545325B2 | Illumination and observation system for an ophthalmic microscope, ophthalmic microscope comprising such a system, and microscopying method | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
| US11921275B2 | Illumination filter system and observation system for a multispectral fluorescence microscope, multispectral fluorescence microscope, and microscopying method | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US8734332B2 | Connector unit for endoscopes | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.