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Lewis J. Thomas, Iii
Also filed as: THOMAS II LEWIS JONES · THOMAS III LEWIS J · THOMAS III LEWIS JONES · THOMAS LEWIS
44 granted patents·12 pending applications·2,243 citations·filing 1986–2025
99Inventor score
Files withGEN ELECTRIC21SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS8BOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC7ACUSON6OTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES CO LTD4
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56 records- 0196US5186177AMethod and apparatus for applying synthetic aperture focusing techniques to a catheter based system for high frequency ultrasound imaging of small vesselsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1991·Granted Feb 16, 1993·273 cites·14 claims
- 0296US4870279AHigh resolution X-ray detectorGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1988·Granted Sep 26, 1989·72 cites·15 claims
- 0395US6551246B1Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound imagesACUSON·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 22, 2003·154 cites·51 claims
- 0493US6309356B1Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound imagesACUSON·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 30, 2001·122 cites·40 claims
- 0592US4979199AMicrofocus X-ray tube with optical spot size sensing meansGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1989·Granted Dec 18, 1990·59 cites·39 claims
- 0688US7567016B2Multi-dimensional ultrasound transducer arraySIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 28, 2009·41 cites·12 claims
- 0788US6048315AMethod and apparatus for ultrasonic synthetic transmit aperture imaging using orthogonal complementary codesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 11, 2000·148 cites·17 claims
- 0887US10506965B2Bladder health monitoring system and related methods and devicesUNIV IOWA RES FOUND·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 17, 2019·22 cites·19 claims
- 0986US7366992B2Method and system for displaying and/or manipulating medical image dataSIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 29, 2008·65 cites·19 claims
- 1086US5226847AApparatus and method for acquiring imaging signals with reduced number of interconnect wiresGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1992·Granted Jul 13, 1993·101 cites·27 claims
- 1185US5329930APhased array sector scanner with multiplexed acoustic transducer elementsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted Jul 19, 1994·111 cites·13 claims
- 1285US4921415ACure monitoring apparatus having high temperature ultrasonic transducersGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1988·Granted May 1, 1990·54 cites·1 claims
- 1380US2025387135A1Selectively insulated ultrasound transducersOTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES CO LTD·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 1478US7921717B2Ultrasonic imaging systemSIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 12, 2011·18 cites·30 claims
- 1578US6494841B1Medical diagnostic ultrasound system using contrast pulse sequence imagingACUSON·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 17, 2002·94 cites·52 claims
- 1678US5349524AColor flow imaging system utilizing a time domain adaptive wall filterGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted Sep 20, 1994·65 cites·17 claims
- 1778US4825117ATemperature compensated piezoelectric transducer assemblyGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1987·Granted Apr 25, 1989·37 cites·3 claims
- 1876US4758803AMarginal oscillator for acoustic monitoring of curing of plasticsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1987·Granted Jul 19, 1988·36 cites·10 claims
- 1975US6146328AMethod and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming using golay-coded excitationGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 14, 2000·71 cites·22 claims
- 2074US7092749B2System and method for adapting the behavior of a diagnostic medical ultrasound system based on anatomic features present in ultrasound imagesSIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 15, 2006·37 cites·50 claims
- 2174US4911170AHigh frequency focused ultrasonic transducer for invasive tissue characterizationGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1988·Granted Mar 27, 1990·113 cites·10 claims
- 2274US2025204887A1Intravascular ultrasound systems, catheters, and methods with a manual pullback arrangementBOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 2373US8197413B2Transducers, devices and systems containing the transducers, and methods of manufactureKURSE RAVI·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 12, 2012·14 cites·23 claims
- 2470US6517489B1Method and apparatus for forming medical ultrasound imagesACUSON·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 11, 2003·25 cites·10 claims
- 2570US5457863AMethod of making a two dimensional ultrasonic transducer arrayGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted Oct 17, 1995·29 cites·11 claims
- 2670US5445156AMethod for adaptively filtering doppler signals using a complex time domain filterGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 29, 1995·46 cites·23 claims
- 2769US6491633B1Medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method for contrast agent image beamformationACUSON·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 10, 2002·48 cites·45 claims
- 2867US6155980AUltrasonic imaging system with beamforming using unipolar or bipolar coded excitationGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 5, 2000·54 cites·25 claims
- 2967US5851187AMethod and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming with spatially encoded transmitsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 22, 1998·53 cites·16 claims
- 3066US6413218B1Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system and method for determining an acoustic output parameter of a transmitted ultrasonic beamACUSON·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 2, 2002·36 cites·60 claims
- 3166US6113545AUltrasonic beamforming with improved signal-to-noise ratio using orthogonal complementary setsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 5, 2000·51 cites·24 claims
- 3265US12419662B2Selectively insulated ultrasound transducersOTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES CO LTD·Filed 2021·Granted Sep 23, 2025·0 cites·32 claims
- 3365US5349525AColor flow imaging system utilizing a frequency domain wall filterGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted Sep 20, 1994·40 cites·13 claims
- 3464US12343200B2Intravascular ultrasound systems, catheters, and methods with a manual pullback arrangementBOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 1, 2025·0 cites·10 claims
- 3564US7221972B2Ultrasound system with protocol-driven user interfaceSIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2004·Granted May 22, 2007·22 cites·23 claims
- 3661US2009276515A1Multi-modality network for improved workflowBOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 3760US10561401B2Systems and methods for selection and displaying of images using an intravascular ultrasound imaging systemBOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 18, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 3860US7946988B2Medical diagnostic ultrasound contrast agent destruction with reduced biological effectSIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2005·Granted May 24, 2011·1 cites·21 claims
- 3959US5984869AMethod and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming using golay-coded excitationGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 16, 1999·40 cites·18 claims
- 4056US11553865B2Bladder health monitoring systems and related methods and devicesUNIV IOWA RES FOUND·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 17, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
- 4156US7311667B2Multiple pattern transducer array and method of useSIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 25, 2007·8 cites·19 claims
- 4256US4873984ATechniques for calculating ultrasonic integrated backscatter using frequency or time domain techniquesHEWLETT PACKARD CO·Filed 1986·Granted Oct 17, 1989·18 cites·7 claims
- 4353US11751786B2Neurogenic bladder monitoring and associated systems and devicesUNIV IOWA RES FOUND·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 12, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
- 4453US5327894AWall filter using circular convolution for a color flow imaging systemGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted Jul 12, 1994·22 cites·20 claims
- 4553US2017164925A1Intravascular ultrasound systems, catheters, and methods with a manual pullback arrangementBOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 4649US2022378461A1Therapeutic ultrasound tissue treatment systems, apparatuses, and methodsOTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES CO LTD·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4748US2022304712A1Therapeutic ultrasound tissue treatment systems, apparatuses, and methodsOTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES CO LTD·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4845US6071240AMethod and apparatus for coherence imagingGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 6, 2000·42 cites·31 claims
- 4945US2007167798A1Contrast agent augmented ultrasound therapy system with ultrasound imaging guidance for thrombus treatmentCAI ANMING H·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 5043US9427210B2Imaging devices with an array of transducers and methods of manufacture and useBOSTON SCIENT SCIMED INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 30, 2016·0 cites·19 claims
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