Thomas E. Milner
78Patents
23h-index
91Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 24, 1988 → Jul 28, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5814040A | Apparatus and method for dynamic cooling of biological tissues for thermal mediated surgery | Human Necessities | 356 | Expired |
| US5991697A | Method and apparatus for optical Doppler tomographic imaging of fluid flow velocity in highly scattering media | Human Necessities | 331 | Expired |
| US6208415A | Birefringence imaging in biological tissue using polarization sensitive optical coherent tomography | Physics | 262 | Expired |
| US6171301A | Apparatus and method for dynamic cooling of biological tissues for thermal mediated surgery | Human Necessities | 214 | Expired |
| US6589235B2 | Method and apparatus for cartilage reshaping by radiofrequency heating | Human Necessities | 179 | Expired |
| US7783337B2 | OCT using spectrally resolved bandwidth | Human Necessities | 135 | Active |
| US5979454A | Method and apparatus for causing rapid and deep spatially selective coagulation during thermally mediated therapeutic procedures | Human Necessities | 109 | Expired |
| US7711413B2 | Catheter imaging probe and method | Human Necessities | 105 | Expired |
| US8049900B2 | Apparatus and methods for uniform frequency sample clocking | Physics | 96 | Active |
| US7853316B2 | Rotating optical catheter tip for optical coherence tomography | Human Necessities | 83 | Active |
| US5997530A | Apparatus and method to control atmospheric water vapor composition and concentration during dynamic cooling of biological tissues in conjunction with laser irradiations | Human Necessities | 81 | Expired |
| US8125648B2 | Polarization-sensitive spectral interferometry | Physics | 76 | Active |
| US7177491B2 | Fiber-based optical low coherence tomography | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US6665456B2 | Method and apparatus for differential phase optical coherence tomography | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US9133709B2 | Determination of oil saturation in reservoir rock using paramagnetic nanoparticles and magnetic field | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 68 | Active |
| US7801590B2 | Optical coherence tomographic detection of cells and killing of the same | Human Necessities | 62 | Active |
| US8280470B2 | Analyte sensor method and apparatus | Human Necessities | 59 | Active |
| US9622706B2 | Catheter for in vivo imaging | Human Necessities | 58 | Active |
| US8036732B2 | Hemoglobin contrast in magneto-motive optical doppler tomography, optical coherence tomography, and ultrasound imaging methods and apparatus | Human Necessities | 58 | Active |
| US6248103A | Apparatus and method for dynamic cooling of biological tissues for thermal mediated surgery using long laser pulses | Human Necessities | 57 | Expired |
| US7983737B2 | Optical coherence tomographic detection of cells and compositions | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US5015096A | Method and apparatus for testing optical components | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US9008142B2 | System and method for optimization of coherence length of tunable laser sources | Electricity | 26 | Active |
| US9526425B2 | OCT using spectrally resolved bandwidth | Human Necessities | 20 | Active |
| US8531676B2 | Forward-imaging optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and probes | Physics | 14 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.