Tommy D. Bennett
52Patents
16h-index
59Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 14, 1990 → Jul 7, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7096064B2 | Implantable medical device for treating cardiac mechanical dysfunction by electrical stimulation | Human Necessities | 319 | Expired |
| US5626623A | Method and apparatus for optimizing pacemaker AV delay | Human Necessities | 279 | Expired |
| US5300107A | Universal tined myocardial pacing lead | Human Necessities | 258 | Expired |
| US5158078A | Rate responsive pacemaker and methods for optimizing its operation | Human Necessities | 235 | Expired |
| US5312453A | Rate responsive cardiac pacemaker and method for work-modulating pacing rate deceleration | Human Necessities | 163 | Expired |
| US5154170A | Optimization for rate responsive cardiac pacemaker | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 130 | Expired |
| US5226413A | Rate responsive pacemaker and method for automatically initializing the same | Human Necessities | 102 | Expired |
| US5320643A | Automatic cardiac capture restoration and threshold-seeking method and apparatus | Human Necessities | 97 | Expired |
| US8827913B2 | Verification of pressure metrics | Human Necessities | 87 | Active |
| US5282839A | Rate responsive cardiac pacemaker and method for providing an optimized pacing rate which varies with a patient's physiologic demand | Human Necessities | 52 | Expired |
| US8244355B2 | Method and apparatus to provide diagnostic index and therapy regulated by subject's autonomic nervous system | Human Necessities | 37 | Active |
| US6915157B2 | Implantable medical device for assessing heart failure state from Mechanical Pulsus Alternans | Human Necessities | 36 | Expired |
| US7367951B2 | System and method for detecting cardiovascular health conditions using hemodynamic pressure waveforms | Human Necessities | 25 | Expired |
| US5134997A | Rate responsive pacemaker and pacing method | Human Necessities | 24 | Expired |
| US7488291B2 | Methods for detecting and monitoring sleep disordered breathing using an implantable medical device | Human Necessities | 18 | Active |
| US7704209B2 | Method and apparatus for continuous pulse contour cardiac output | Human Necessities | 16 | Active |
| US7632234B2 | Implantable biosensor devices for monitoring cardiac marker molecules | Human Necessities | 15 | Expired |
| US8594790B2 | System and method for monitoring a ventricular pressure index to predict worsening heart failure | Human Necessities | 13 | Active |
| US9943633B2 | System and method to regulate ultrafiltration | Human Necessities | 13 | Active |
| US9943236B2 | Methods for guiding heart failure decompensation therapy | Human Necessities | 10 | Active |
| US8211028B2 | System and method of determining arterial blood pressure and ventricular fill parameters from ventricular blood pressure waveform data | Human Necessities | 10 | Active |
| US7507208B2 | Method and apparatus for continuous pulse contour cardiac output | Human Necessities | 8 | Active |
| US8585604B2 | Integrated patient care | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US7935062B2 | Derivation of flow contour from pressure waveform | Human Necessities | 7 | Active |
| US8702604B2 | Detection of waveform artifact | Physics | 6 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.