Robert Stobie
19Patents
14h-index
20Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 29, 1990 → Aug 11, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6409758B1 | Heart valve holder for constricting the valve commissures and methods of use | Human Necessities | 188 | Expired |
| US6045576A | Sewing ring having increased annular coaptation | Human Necessities | 162 | Expired |
| US5755783A | Suture rings for rotatable artificial heart valves | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 158 | Expired |
| US6966925B2 | Heart valve holder and method for resisting suture looping | Human Necessities | 155 | Expired |
| US6846324B2 | Combination anatomical orifice sizer and heart valve | Human Necessities | 152 | Expired |
| US6143025A | Suture rings for rotatable artificial heart valves | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 148 | Expired |
| US6964682B2 | Heart valve holder that resist suture looping | Human Necessities | 108 | Expired |
| US6702852B2 | Method for retrofitting a heart valve holder | Human Necessities | 95 | Expired |
| US7658763B2 | Heart valve holder and method for resisting suture looping | Human Necessities | 81 | Active |
| US7819915B2 | Heart valve holders and handling clips therefor | Human Necessities | 66 | Active |
| US6383147B1 | Anatomical orifice sizers and methods of orifice sizing | Human Necessities | 56 | Expired |
| US5035709A | Mechanical heart valve with compliant sewing ring | Human Necessities | 54 | Expired |
| US5554186A | Bileaflet mechanical heart valve having cropped slot pivot configuration and method for preventing blood stagnation therein | Human Necessities | 51 | Expired |
| US7909866B2 | Heart valve sizers dimensioned larger than corresponding heart valves | Human Necessities | 42 | Active |
| US7806926B2 | Holders for prosthetic aortic heart valves | Human Necessities | 7 | Active |
| USRE46668E1 | Heart valve holder and method for resisting suture looping | General | 4 | Active |
| USRE47065E1 | Heart valve holder and method for resisting suture looping | General | 2 | Active |
| US8021161B2 | Simulated heart valve root for training and testing | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US8202314B2 | Holders for prosthetic aortic heart valves | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.