Waldean A. Schulz
17Patents
16h-index
12Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 15, 1990 → Jun 27, 2008
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5622170A | Apparatus for determining the position and orientation of an invasive portion of a probe inside a three-dimensional body | Human Necessities | 618 | Expired |
| US5617857A | Imaging system having interactive medical instruments and methods | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 465 | Expired |
| US5198877A | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional non-contact shape sensing | Physics | 399 | Expired |
| US5920395A | System for locating relative positions of objects in three dimensional space | Human Necessities | 358 | Expired |
| US6611141B1 | Hybrid 3-D probe tracked by multiple sensors | Physics | 345 | Expired |
| US5987349A | Method for determining the position and orientation of two moveable objects in three-dimensional space | Human Necessities | 278 | Expired |
| USRE35816E | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional non-contact shape sensing | General | 278 | Expired |
| US7865236B2 | Active electrode, bio-impedance based, tissue discrimination system and methods of use | Human Necessities | 275 | Active |
| US5907395A | Optical fiber probe for position measurement | Physics | 218 | Expired |
| US7256899B1 | Wireless methods and systems for three-dimensional non-contact shape sensing | Electricity | 136 | Active |
| US6141104A | System for determination of a location in three dimensional space | Physics | 104 | Expired |
| US6608688B1 | Wireless optical instrument for position measurement and method of use therefor | Human Necessities | 48 | Expired |
| US7336375B1 | Wireless methods and systems for three-dimensional non-contact shape sensing | Electricity | 47 | Active |
| US8086026B2 | Method and system for the determination of object positions in a volume | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US7623250B2 | Enhanced shape characterization device and method | Physics | 25 | Active |
| USRE39102E1 | Optical fiber probe for position measurement | General | 17 | Expired |
| US7049594B2 | Position sensing sensor, method and system | Physics | 14 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.