Inventor · Bloomington, IN, US

Michael Hoffa

20Patents

12h-index

29Co-inventors

77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 30, 1994 → Aug 15, 2013

Most-cited inventions

Patent	Title	Area	Cited by	Status
US6231598A	Radially expandable stent	Human Necessities	452	Expired
US6447540B1	Stent deployment device including splittable sleeve containing the stent	Human Necessities	380	Expired
US8357103B2	Vacuum assisted biopsy needle set	Human Necessities	300	Active
US7534250B2	Introducer sheath	Human Necessities	126	Expired
USD380266S	Implantable, actively expandable stent	General	114	Expired
US7803149B2	Coated medical device	Human Necessities	114	Expired
US8280486B2	Site marker visable under multiple modalities	Human Necessities	56	Active
US7731685B2	Coated medical device	Human Necessities	42	Expired
US8287586B2	Flareable branch vessel prosthesis and method	Human Necessities	34	Active
US6592550B1	Medical device including improved expandable balloon	Chemistry; Metallurgy	21	Expired
US6881209B2	Medical device including unitary, continuous portion of varying durometer	Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies	14	Expired
US8529468B2	Surgical system	Human Necessities	13	Active
US8679032B2	Vacuum assisted biopsy needle set	Human Necessities	6	Active
US9078780B2	Balloon flareable branch vessel prosthesis and method	Human Necessities	5	Expired
US8858464B2	Surgical system	Human Necessities	4	Active
US7485250B2	Medical device including improved expandable balloon	Chemistry; Metallurgy	4	Expired
US8554309B2	Localizing obturator with site marking capability	Human Necessities	1	Active
US7722795B2	Medical device including unitary, continuous portion of varying durometer	Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies	1	Active
US9358141B2	Stent deployment device	Human Necessities	0	Active
US10532190B2	Coated medical device	Human Necessities	0	Active

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