Overall

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2020

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

All WIPO fields

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 75 9432298    System, method, and computer program product for improving memory systems
  Inventors: Michael Smith

  2. 51 9516053    Network security threat detection by user/user-entity behavioral analysis
  Inventors: Sudhakar Muddu; Christos Tryfonas

  3. 34 8316237    System and method for secure three-party communications
  Inventors: David Paul Felsher; Robert H. Nagel; Steven M. Hoffberg

  4. 31 7813822    Intelligent electronic appliance system and method
  Inventors: Steven M. Hoffberg

  5. 29 9170367    Waveguides having patterned, flattened modes
  Inventors: Michael J. Messerly; Paul H. Pax; Jay W. Dawson

  6. 28 6989508    High-speed, precision, laser-based method and system for processing material of one or more targets within a field
  Inventors: Jonathan S. Ehrmann; James Cordingley; Donald V. Smart; Donald J. Svetkoff

  6. 28 8184363    All-fiber integrated high power coherent beam combination
  Inventors: Joshua E. Rothenberg

  8. 27 5850352    Immersive video, including video hypermosaicing to generate from multiple video views of a scene a three-dimensional video mosaic from which diverse virtual video scene images are synthesized, including panoramic, scene interactive and stereoscopic images
  Inventors: Saied Moezzi; Arun Lakshminarayn Katkere; Ramesh Jain

  8. 27 7288697    Alfalfa plants having improved fast recovery after harvest and methods for producing same
  Inventors: David W. Johnson; Mark E. Darling; Douglas Miller; Jonathan M. Reich

  10. 26 7211717    Plants and seeds of corn variety I285291
  Inventors: Steven K. Johnson; Bradley A. Sockness

  10. 26 7473826    Plants and seeds of corn variety I351729
  Inventors: Jon Popi

  10. 26 7872183    Plants and seeds of corn variety CV605722
  Inventors: Jon Popi

  10. 26 8035006    Plants and seeds of corn variety CV112211
  Inventors: Nathaniel J. Page

  10. 26 8324476    Plants and seeds of corn variety CV601652
  Inventors: Jon Popi

  10. 26 8969677    Plants and seeds of corn variety CV721761
  Inventors: Nathaniel J. Page

  10. 26 9313970    Plants and seeds of corn variety CV952947
  Inventors: Nathaniel J. Page

  10. 26 9341362    LED venue lighting system with first and second housing having an air passage therebetween
  Inventors: Fred H. Holmes; Kevin C. Baxter

  10. 26 9916538    Method and system for feature detection
  Inventors: Lotfi A. Zadeh; Saied Tadayon; Bijan Tadayon

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 381 6783524    Robotic surgical tool with ultrasound cauterizing and cutting instrument
  Inventors: Stephen Anderson; Christopher Julian

  2. 354 7404508    Surgical stapling and cutting device
  Inventors: Kevin W. Smith; Matthew A. Palmer; Korey Kline; Derek Dee Deville

  3. 350 6981628    Surgical instrument with a lateral-moving articulation control
  Inventors: Kenneth S. Wales

  4. 345 5704534    Articulation assembly for surgical instruments
  Inventors: Thomas W. Huitema; Anil K. Nalagatla; Dale R. Schulze

  5. 342 7644848    Electronic lockouts and surgical instrument including same
  Inventors: Jeffrey S. Swayze; Frederick E. Shelton, IV; Kevin R. Doll; Eugene L. Timperman

  6. 339 8708213    Surgical instrument having a feedback system
  Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV; Jerome R. Morgan; Kevin R. Doll; Jeffrey S. Swayze; Eugene L. Timperman

  7. 338 5632432    Surgical instrument
  Inventors: Dale R. Schulze; Joseph F. Paraschac; William D. Fox; Michael E. Setser; Kenneth S. Wales; Mark S. Zeiner

  8. 337 5312023    Self contained gas powered surgical apparatus
  Inventors: David T. Green; Henry R. Sienkiewicz; Richard C. McClure; Robert C. Savage; Keith L. Milliman; Mitchell J. Palmer; Lisa W. Heaton; Graham W. Bryan

  9. 336 7380696    Articulating surgical stapling instrument incorporating a two-piece E-beam firing mechanism
  Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV; Kevin R. Doll; Jerry R. Morgan; Michael E. Setser

  10. 332 7380695    Surgical stapling instrument having a single lockout mechanism for prevention of firing
  Inventors: Kevin R. Doll; Michael E. Setser; Frederick E. Shelton, IV; Kenneth S. Wales

 
 
References:
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