Patent Landscape Analytics Report
Date: 2023-06-28
How to Use this report:
First, read the Overview section for the report’s principle takeaways. This will add significant context to the details of the report presented below. Use the hyperlinks presented in the overview text to jump to the relevant sections of interest.
Then use the Table of Contents below to navigate to additional specific sections by clicking on the headings. See the descriptions of the Table of Contents items for more information.
This HTML report provides interactive figures and tables, with mouse-over, zoom-able data display, and searchable, sort-able tables. This provides the user with the capability to interactively explore the patent document landscape information and the analytical results.
The report is designed to derive strategic intelligence from the specified patent document domain collection and provide mechanisms to enable addition research. This includes strategic information covering patenting trends, the IP competitive landscape, notable patent document citations, important non-patent document citations covering industry reports and media references, as well as frequently applied technology classification codes. In addition, the Summary table ( Summary of All Patent Documents in the Domain Collection ) can be queried for a wide variety of patent document information, including keyword and key phrase queries into the titles, abstracts, and claims, which are useful for freedom-to-operate analyses and basic preliminary white space and prior art inquiries. A full prior art search or thorough white space analysis are beyond the scope of this report.
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Domain Collection: The principle focus of this report is to create a broad patent landscape around the remote medical and patient monitoring intellectual property domain. The broad domain collection for this report was created by matching the phrases "remote patient monitor", "remote health monitor", or "remote medical monitor" in the title, abstract, description or claims of the patent documents available in Google’s BigQuery data warehouse in the patents.publications dataset. These phrases are queried in an “OR-ed” fashion such that the matching of any of these phrases, in any of the specified sections, will include that patent document in the domain collection. The patent documents query was executed on a worldwide basis across all US and international patent documents contained in Google’s dataset. See the Summary of All Patent Documents in the Domain Collection for more information or to execute additional queries into the domain collection documents.
"remote patient monitor" OR "remote health monitor" OR "remote medical monitor" – matched on a worldwide basis in patent documents title, abstract, description, or claims.
The resulting domain collection consists of 3,490 total documents of which there are 2,422 patent applications and 1,223 granted patents.
Patenting Activity: The first patent application in this domain collection, entitled “Cardiac Monitoring Method and Apparatus” ( US5022404A ) was filed in October of 1989 by Marquette Electronics Inc., which was purchased by GE Healthcare in 1998 . Marquette Electronics, which eventually changed its name to Marquette Medical Systems, was an early leader in the market for medical electronics for the diagnosis and monitoring of patients. The company eventually became a world leader in computerized electrocardiographic equipment. The US5022404A application resulted in the first granted patent in the domain collection in June 1991. However, patent filings remained quite low until approximately 1999, after which patenting activity has continued to increase. The vast majority of patenting activity in this domain collection has occurred over the last 20 years since approximately 2001. Current numbers generally indicate that there are approximately 250 to 280 new applications and 90 to 100 granted patents annually. See the Domain Collection Date Coverage Table and the Patenting Trends Timeline for the Domain Collection .
Patenting Trends: The pendency period for granted patents (i.e.the time between application and patent approval), over the most active filing period from 2001 to 2019, has varied from over 5 years to as low as 2.25 years. The most recent consistent trend over the years 2011 through 2019 indicate that the current pendency period is 30-40 months, or approximately three years. This indicates that the most recent 2.5 to 3.5 years of data in the patenting trend charts ( Patenting Trends Timeline for the Domain Collection ), 2019-2022, are likely incomplete data. As a result, the Applications and Granted Patents Timeline is indicating generally flat to slightly increasing patent application filing trends with 250 to 280 new applications filed annually. The granted patent approval percentage trend since 2001 has remained relatively flat at approximately 40%. See the Approval Rate (%) and Pendency Period charts. The relatively high-level and flat to increasing application filing trends, combined with the flat approval rate, together indicate a patenting environment that’s stable but likely increasingly competitive going forward.
Top Inventors & Their Assignees: Of the top 10 inventors in this domain collection, none stand-out as having significantly more patents than any others. The leading inventor is listed on 82 patent documents and the 10 th ranked inventor is listed on 38 documents. The leading inventor is Stephen J Brown , listed on 82 total documents with 42 of those assigned to Health Hero Network Inc. Health Hero Network was a technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California focused on remote health monitoring and management, that was purchased by Robert Bosch GmbH in 2007 . Stephen Brown was the founder and CEO of Health Hero Network from 1998 through the sale of the company to Bosch in 2007. The second ranked inventor, Gust H. Bardy , is listed on a total of 60 patent documents with 20 assigned to Cardiac Intelligence Corporation. Cardiac Intelligence Corp was a Seattle-based company focused on remote, wireless monitoring of heart function in patients with implanted devices, and was acquired by Guidant Corporation (now part of Boston Scientific) in 2002 . Gust Bardy is a medical doctor in the Seattle, Washington area, currently CEO of Bardy Diagnostics and a founder of Cardiac Intelligence Corp. He was the Clinical Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Washington . The next four inventors, Thomas Crosley , Terry Bartlett, Ralph Kent, and Kent Dicks , were all executive and engineering personnel with MedApps Inc., though most of the patent documents are assigned to them individually. MedApps Inc. was a Scottsdale, Arizona company focused on home health monitoring devices used to collect data from remotely connected glucose meters. In 2012 MedApps was acquired by Alere Inc. , which was in turn acquired by Abbott in 2016 . The 7 th and 8 th ranked inventors, Lowell L Wood Jr. and Roderick A Hyde, are both associated with Searete LLC, which is a patent holding company and part of Intellectual Ventures LLC . For more information see the Top Inventors and Principal Assignees table and the complete list of 3,584 inventors.
IP Competitive Landscape (Top Assignees): The top assignee in this domain collection is clearly Medtronic PLC , which is listed on twice as many patent documents as the second ranked assignee, which is Cardiac Pacemakers Inc., now a subsidiary of Boston Scientific . The third ranked assignee is Sophos LTD. , based in Abingdon, England, which focuses on communications, encryption, and network security. Sophos’ high ranking under scores the importance of communication security in the remote medical and patient monitoring market. Sophos was taken private in 2019 via an acquisition by Thoma Bravo, a US-based private equity firm . The fourth ranked assignee is Philips Electronics (also listed under slightly different names via Index # 5 and #7). Health Hero Network (now Bosch GmbH) is the fifth ranked assignee. MedApps Inc. ( acquired by Alere Inc. and now part of Abbott ) is technically the sixth ranked assignee via the patent documents assigned to Thomas Crosley, Terry Bartlett, Ralph Kent, and Kent Dicks.
The remaining assignees that make-up the top 25 consist of a mix of corporations, educational institutions, and additional individuals. There are however, two other assignees that look to be patent holding companies in this IP segment. In general, patent holding companies can sometime be viewed as risks to an IP sector due to the potential for these companies to pursue aggressive licensing and litigation business strategies. May Patents LTD (Index #9) looks to be a patent holding company based out of Israel. Searete LLC (Index #12) is a patent holding company and division of Intellectual Ventures LLC . Intellectual Ventures, in particular, has had a history of pursuing a licensing and litigation strategy that can potentially result in IP challenges for the companies competing in sectors in which Intellectual Ventures holds patents. See “Intellectual Ventures Back in Court – A Sign of More Litigation to Come?” and “Why were Toyota, Honda, and GM sued by Intellectual Ventures? Connected cars and patent litigation.” For more information see the Top Assignees table and the complete list of 1, 305 assignees.
Top Cited Patent Documents & Citation Assignees: The top patent document citations across the domain collection have assignees that consist of companies that were early innovators in the remote medical monitoring and communications markets. Most of the top citations date back to the late 1990s and early 2000s. The most cited patent document is granted patent US-6168563-B1 entitled “Remote Health Monitoring and Maintenance System” issued to Health Hero Network Inc. (now part of Bosch GmbH) . This patent was filed in 1999 but claimed a priority date back to 1992. The patent was granted in 2001 and expired in 2012. The second most cited patent document is granted patent US-6416471-B1 entitled “Portable Remote Patient Telemonitoring System” issued to Nexan Ltd in 2002. Nexan was a UK based company, with U.S. headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia , that developed a remote medical monitoring system named “Clear Path” in the early 2000s. The UK-based parent company encountered financial difficulties and filed bankruptcy in 2002. The US-based division continued for a short time after that doing business as Nexan Inc., Clear Path Systems, and Clearpath Partners LLC. The granted patent had an official expiration date of April 15, 2019, but looks like it expired before that, sometime after 2008 due to the non-payment of maintenance fees. Of the top 10 patent document citations, all were approved as granted patents and all have since expired as enforceable intellectual property. However, these patent documents, and all the others in the citations table, still serve as prior art references to new technology developments in this IP sector, so its generally a good idea for new technology developers to be at least somewhat familiar with these older patent document citations. See the Top 100 Patent Document Citations table for more information.
When the top 100 patent document citations are sorted by assignee, Medtronic PLC shows as the assignee with the most prominent portfolio, with all of its citations dating back to the late 1990s and early 2000s. Health Hero Network Inc. (Bosch GmbH) ranks as the entity with the 2 nd best citations portfolio with references also dating back to the late 1990s and early 2000s. Pacesetter, Inc. ranks as having the 3 rd best citations portfolio. Pacesetter was a medtech company founded in 1965 which focused on implantable medical technology. The company was purchased by Siemens in 1985 and then subsequently sold to St. Jude Medical in 1994 . St. Jude Medical is now a division of Abbott . See the Top Patent Document Citations, Sorted by Assignee table for more information. Also review the Top Non-Patent Literature Citations table for the top 100 citations from articles, research reports and media references.
Top Technology Classification Codes: T he top inventive CPC technology classification codes for this domain collection focus on medical diagnostics, healthcare informatics, and communications (both wired and wireless). The top CPC group code of A61B5 (“Diagnosis, Surgery, Identification – detecting, measuring, or recording for diagnostic purposes”) focuses on the medical diagnostics aspects and encompasses the physiological monitoring inventions. The CPC group number of G16H (“Healthcare Informatics, i.e. information and communication technology specifically adapted for the handling or processing of medical or healthcare data”) and its sub-classifications group codes of 40, 50, 10, 20, 80 all encompass the healthcare informatics inventions and essentially represent unique techniques to process the collected medical data and information. Finally, the H04L group number (“Transmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication) and group code numbers H04L67 and H04L63, encompass the important inventions focused on communications specifically for medical and health monitoring. See the Top Inventive CPC Group Code Numbers table for more information and the list of the top 250 CPC classification codes with descriptions searchable via keywords and phrases. It is also possible to use the Patent Documents Summary table to search on the applied CPC codes to find specific patent documents to which certain CPC codes have been applied.
Additional Domain Collection Queries:
Executing additional queries into the domain collection, via the Summary of All Patent Documents table, can often provide additional insight into sub-topics contained in the domain collection that may be of more specific interest. This can be accomplished by showing the relevant sections of the patent documents (title, abstract, or claims) or additional metadata fields, and executing additional keyword, key phrase, or parameter queries via the provided column search fields. Whenever switching between shown and hidden column fields, it’s important to clear the column field search box before hiding the field. Entering data into multiple column search fields will produce the ANDed results of those separate searches. So, if a field column is then hidden with a value or keyword in the search field box, that will still be applied in the ANDed search results. Also remember that the “Patent Claims Text” field is only available for US patent documents, not international patent documents, as supplied via Google’s BigQuery patent dataset. Below are some examples.
For example, say we’re interested in finding all patent documents with a filing date year of 2020 that also contains the word “pulse” in the title of the document. With the fields shown as indicated below (green highlighted fields are show in the table), we can use the search fields above each column to execute an ANDed query into the table of patent documents. Entering the year “2020” in the “PatApp Filing Date” column search and “pulse” into the “Patent Title” search will show all patent documents matching both of those parameters. The results are the three patent documents shown below. The “Patent Family ID” field is also show to indicate that document index numbers 463 and 811 are the same patent document, with 811 being the application and 463 being the granted patent. This happens to be a patent granted to Masimo Corporation ( US-11202571-B2 ).
In addition, say we’re interested in finding all patent documents that have the word “wireless” and the phrase “body area network” in the abstract of the document. First, we show the “Patent Abstract Text” field and then enter the word “wireless” and the phrase “body area network” (enclosed in quotes) as show below. This indicate that there are three patent documents that match this query, one filed in Australia, one filed in the United States, and one filed in China.
Table of Contents:
Summary of All Patent Documents in the Domain Collection
Provides an interactive, searchable, sort-able table of all patent documents in the analysis domain collection, including a variety of metadata fields pertaining to the documents. The titles, abstracts, and claims of the patent documents are also provided and can be further queried via the column-specific and overall search capabilities. This interactive table is useful in executing additional queries on the entire domain collection, such as keyword or key phrase queries on claims to find specific claims of interest, finding patent documents from specific inventors or assignees, or searching and sorting on various date fields such as filing date, grant date, or earliest priority date.
Duplicate patent documents, potentially filed with various international patenting authorities, have been deleted. So, there’s only one representative patent document per patent family.
Provides a table summarizing the date coverage, listing the earliest and most recent dates for filed patent applications, published documents, granted patents, and priority dates. This table provides some basic context to help profile the domain collection and summarizes the date ranges of documents included in the analysis.
Domain Collection Geographic Coverage
Provides a table summarizing the geographic distribution of patent applications and granted patents by country contained in the domain collection. This table is also provided to help profile the documents included in the analysis.
Patent Documents with English Sections by Country
Provides a table showing the geographic breakdown of the number patent documents with English abstracts, descriptions, and claims. This table is also designed to help profile the domain collection and provide context on the English-searchable sections of the patent documents from which semantic search results can be derived.
Patenting Trends Timeline for the Domain Collection
Provides timeline of the number of patent applications and granted patents, and thus shows a concise view of the historic patenting trends embodied in the domain collection. In addition, line charts show the timelines for the approval percentages and pendency periods. These charts can be used to assess the competitive nature of the patenting environment for the domain collection IP segment.
Top Inventors and Principal Assignees
Provides a table of the top inventors listed on the patent applications contained in the domain collection and essentially identifies the top intellectual property experts of the domain area profiled. This table also lists the entities (corporations, educational institutions, etc.) to which those inventors have assigned the predominant number of patent applications, and thus identifies relationships between inventors and those assignees.
Provides a table of the top assignees of patent applications contained in the domain collection and largely represents the competitive landscape from an intellectual property perspective. These assignees are the corporations, educational institutions, individuals, and other entities, that are involved in the IP sector, and thus may also be prospective development partners, investors, IP acquirers, or IP acquisition targets.
This table can also be helpful in identifying entities that may be patent holding companies, otherwise know as non-practicing entities (NPEs). These companies typically acquire or develop IP portfolios and then employ licensing or litigation business models that can increase costs and risks for other companies competing in the IP sector.
Finally, a review of the companies in the lower quartiles of this list can also identify start-ups and emerging companies that are just beginning to established patent portfolios in the IP sector.
Top 100 Patent Document Citations
Provides a table of the top 100 most cited patent document references across the domain collection and is designed to identify the most significant patent documents to the domain area profiled.
A cited patent document is typically a patent application or granted patent that is considered as significant (prior art, or in some way relevant) to the patent document that cites it. This table below thus represents the list of most cited patent document references on patent documents in the domain collection. These cited patent documents may or may not be in the domain collection, but nonetheless represent notable references relevant to the domain collection.
Top Patent Document Citations, Sorted by Assignee
Provides a table with the same information as the previous Top Patent Document Citations table, except this table is sorted by assignee and is designed to identify the assignees with most significant intellectual property positions across the domain collection based on the total number of citations. This table aims to clearly show the corporations, educational institutions, individuals, or other entities that have broad positions in the IP sector profiled by the domain collection.
Top Non-Patent Literature Citations
Provides a table that identifies the most cited non-patent literature references across the domain collection and is designed to identify the most significant references beyond the patent document citations.
Top Inventive CPC Group Code Numbers
Provides a table of the top inventive CPC group codes and CPC group numbers (and respective CPC titles) that are assigned to patent documents included in the domain collection. This table essentially provides two levels of description into the inventive ideas embodied in the domain collection and is designed to provide some technological descriptive context to the patent documents of the IP segment profiled.
- Provides an interactive, searchable, sort-able table of all patent documents in the analysis domain collection, including a variety of metadata fields pertaining to the documents. The titles, abstracts, and claims of the patent documents are also provided and can be further queried via the column-specific and overall search capabilities. This interactive table is useful in executing additional queries on the entire domain collection, such as keyword or key phrase queries on claims to find specific claims of interest, finding patent documents from specific inventors or assignees, or searching and sorting on various date fields such as filing date, grant date, or earliest priority date.
- Click on any column heading to sort.
- Use the Search box above any column to search specifically on that column.
- Multiple concurrent column searches will produce results that are the logical AND'ed combination of the separate column searches.
- Use the Search box at the top right to search across the entire table.
- One or more keywords or key phrases can be entered in any search box. Key phrases must be contained in quotes ("…") to be considered a contiguous phrase. Keywords and key phrases must be separated by a single space within the search box. When multiple keywords or key phrases are entered into a search box, the text is searched for each keyword or phrase separately and only the items with text containing all keywords and phrases will be displayed
- Use the Hide/Show control below to selectively display desired columns. Green highlighted column names are shown. Red highlighted column names are hidden. Clicking on a green highlighed column name will hide that column. Clicking on a red highlighted column name will show that column.
- The patent document publication numbers ("Pat Pub Num Linked") are hyperlinked to the Google Patents page that shows the complete patent document.
- Duplicate patent documents, potentially filed with various international patenting authorities, have been deleted. So, there’s only one representative patent document per patent family.
| Index | Publication Date | Pat Pub Num Linked | Pat Pub Num | Google Link | PatApp Filing Date | Patent Grant Date | Pendency Months of GrantedPatent | Patent Priority Date | Pat App Num | Country | Patent Country Code | Patent Family ID | Assignee Names | Inventors Names | Patent Kind Code | Patent Application Kind | Patent App Num Formatted | Patent PCT Number | Patent Title | Patent Title Language | Patent Abstract Text | Patent Abstract Language | Patent Claims Text | Patent Claims Language | IPC Class Codes | CPC Class Codes |
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- This is a table summarizing the date coverage, listing the earliest and most recent dates for filed patent applications, published documents, granted patents, and priority dates. This table provides some basic context to help profile the domain collection and summarizes the date ranges of documents included in the analysis.
- Provides a table summarizing the geographic distribution of patent applications and granted patents by country contained in the domain collection. This table is also provided to help profile the documents included in the analysis.
- Google's BigQuery 'patents.publications' data table contains full text information (titles, abstracts, descriptions, and claims) on US patent documents but only titles and abstracts on international patent documents. As of the date of this report, the BigQuery data table does not contain full text descriptions and claims for international patent documents. As a result, the geographic coverage insights can vary depending on the type of query that was used to generate the domain collection. Semantic keyword or key phrase matching queries that include international patent documents, only query and match those keywords and phrases across the titles and abstracts of those international documents. Thus, the results for semantic queries may be biased toward US patent documents.
- Total number of patent applications = 2,422
- Total number of granted patents = 1,223
- Click on column headings to sort.
- Use the Search box to search on any column.
| Index | Country | Country Code | Number of Patent Apps | Number of Granted Patents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | United States of America | US | 2,054 | 1,117 |
| 1 | China, Peoples Republic of | CN | 187 | 79 |
| 2 | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | WO | 66 | 0 |
| 3 | European Patent Office (EPO) | EP | 42 | 9 |
| 4 | Australia | AU | 17 | 9 |
| 5 | Canada | CA | 16 | 3 |
| 6 | South Korea | KR | 11 | 2 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | GB | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | Japan | JP | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | Taiwan | TW | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | Russian Federation | RU | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Mexico | MX | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | Israel | IL | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | Romania | RO | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Philippines | PH | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Germany | DE | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | Greece | GR | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | BG | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | Singapore | SG | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | Poland | PL | 1 | 0 |
- Provides a table showing the geographic breakdown of the number patent documents with English abstracts, descriptions, and claims. This table is also designed to help profile the domain collection and provide context on the English-searchable sections of the patent documents from which semantic search results can be derived.
- This geographic breakdown of the available English sections of the domain collection patent documents is designed to show the extent to which semantic search queries and results may be limited due to the dataset limitations of Google’s BigQuery ‘patents.publications’ data table. The BigQuery ‘patents.publications’ data table contains full text information (titles, abstracts, descriptions, and claims) on US patent documents but only titles and abstracts on international patent documents. As of the date of this report, the BigQuery data table does not contain full text descriptions and claims for international patent documents.
- Total number of patent documents with English abstracts = 3,455
- Total number of patent documents with English descriptions = 3,040
- Total number of patent documents with English claims = 3,040
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- Use the Search box to search on any column.
| Index | Country | Country Code | Num Patent Docs English Abstract | Num Patent Docs English Desc | Num Patent Docs English Claims |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | United States of America | US | 3,039 | 3,040 | 3,040 |
| 1 | China, Peoples Republic of | CN | 212 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | WO | 90 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | European Patent Office (EPO) | EP | 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Canada | CA | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Australia | AU | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | South Korea | KR | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | GB | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Japan | JP | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Taiwan | TW | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Russian Federation | RU | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Mexico | MX | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Romania | RO | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Philippines | PH | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Germany | DE | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Greece | GR | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Bulgaria | BG | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- Shows a bar chart timeline of the number of patent applications and granted patents, and provides a concise view of the historic patenting trends embodied in the domain collection. In addition, line charts show the timelines for the approval percentages and pendency periods. These charts can be used to assess the competitive nature of the patenting environment for the domain collection IP segment.
- More specifically, the bar chart shows the number of patent applications filed on an annual basis beginning with the earliest application in the domain collection and ending with the most recent filing in the domain collection.
- The granted patent totals have been time-shifted so that the granted patents align with the corresponding applications and thus correctly reflect the granted patents resulting from the applications of a given year.
- The pendency period line chart can be used to assess the validity of the data shown in the applications and granted patents bar chart as well as the approval percentages line chart. For example, with most patenting authorities, such as the USPTO, there is some delay in publishing patent applications and typically a longer time period between application and granted patent (pendency time). For the USPTO, most patent applications are published 18 months after the filing date and pendency times for granted patents can be 24 months or longer. This typically indicates that the most recent 18 to 24+ months of data reflects only partial results.
- Note that the horizontal axis may not reflect a consecutive linear year progression if there were years where there was no patenting activity and no data exists.
- If the domain collection represents a mix of international patent documents, note that these patent documents are often subject to varying examination and approval procedures of different worldwide patenting authorities, which can result in skewed data for the charts below. For example, patent documents from China, that utilize China's utility model patent process, can have notably shorter pendency periods, which can skew the pendency results shown below.
- This table identifies the top inventors listed on the patent applications contained in the domain collection and essentially identifies the top intellectual property experts of the domain area profiled. This table also lists the entities (corporations, educational institutions, etc.) to which those inventors have assigned the predominant number of patent applications, and thus identifies relationships between inventors and those assignees.
- The “Total Num of Patent Docs” column indicates the total number of patent applications on which the individual is listed as an inventor. The default sorting of the table is on this column in descending order.
- The “Num of Patent Docs per Assignee” column indicates the number of patent applications, on which the individual is listed as an inventor, that have been assigned to the indicated assignee.
- Click on column headings to sort.
- Use the Search box to search on any column.
| Index | Inventor Name | Total Num of Patent Docs | Assignee Names | Num of Patent Docs Per Assignee |
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- Provides a table of the top assignees of patent applications contained in the domain collection and largely represents the competitive landscape from an intellectual property perspective. These assignees are the corporations, educational institutions, individuals, and other entities, that are involved in the IP sector, and thus may also be prospective development partners, investors, IP acquirers, or IP acquisition targets.
- This table can also be helpful in identifying entities that may be patent holding companies, otherwise know as non-practicing entities (NPEs). These companies typically acquire or develop IP portfolios and then employ licensing or litigation business models that can increase costs and risks for other companies competing in the IP sector.
- Finally, a review of the companies in the lower quartiles of this list can also identify start-ups and emerging companies that are just beginning to established patent portfolios in the IP sector.
- The “Total Num of Patent Docs per Assignee” column indicates the total number of applications that have been assigned to the indicated assignee.
- Click on column headings to sort.
- Use the Search box to search on any column.
| Index | Assignee Name | Total Num of Patent Docs per Assignee |
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- Provides a table of the top 100 most cited patent document references across the domain collection and is designed to identify the most significant patent documents to the domain area profiled.
- A cited patent document is typically a patent application or granted patent that is considered as significant (prior art, or in some way relevant) to the patent document that cites it. This table below thus represents the list of most cited patent document references on patent documents in the domain collection. These cited patent documents may or may not be in the domain collection, but nonetheless represent notable references relevant to the domain collection.
- The “Number of Patent Docs” column indicates the number of times the citation was referenced across all applications in the domain collection.
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- Use the Search box to search on any column.
| Index | Citation Publication Num Linked | Number of Patent Docs | Publication Date | Citation Title | Assignees |
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| 0 | US-6168563-B1 | 127 | 2001-01-02 | Remote health monitoring and maintenance system | Health Hero Network, Inc. |
| 1 | US-6416471-B1 | 112 | 2002-07-09 | Portable remote patient telemonitoring system | Nexan Limited |
| 2 | US-6093146-A | 93 | 2000-07-25 | Physiological monitoring | Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. |
| 3 | US-6442433-B1 | 93 | 2002-08-27 | Apparatus and method for remote troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrade of implantable device systems | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 4 | US-6024699-A | 92 | 2000-02-15 | Systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring, diagnosing and treating medical conditions of remotely located patients | Healthware Corporation |
| 5 | US-5576952-A | 90 | 1996-11-19 | Medical alert distribution system with selective filtering of medical information | Metriplex, Inc. |
| 6 | US-5772586-A | 89 | 1998-06-30 | Method for monitoring the health of a patient | Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd. |
| 7 | US-6302844-B1 | 89 | 2001-10-16 | Patient care delivery system | Walker Digital, Llc |
| 8 | US-6336900-B1 | 88 | 2002-01-08 | Home hub for reporting patient health parameters | Agilent Technologies, Inc. |
| 9 | US-5553609-A | 83 | 1996-09-10 | Intelligent remote visual monitoring system for home health care service | Visiting Nurse Service, Inc., Indiana University Foundation |
| 10 | US-5704366-A | 83 | 1998-01-06 | System for monitoring and reporting medical measurements | Enact Health Management Systems |
| 11 | US-5390238-A | 82 | 1995-02-14 | Health support system | Motorola, Inc. |
| 12 | US-5752976-A | 81 | 1998-05-19 | World wide patient location and data telemetry system for implantable medical devices | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 13 | US-5331549-A | 79 | 1994-07-19 | Medical monitor system | Crawford Jr John M |
| 14 | US-5544661-A | 78 | 1996-08-13 | Real time ambulatory patient monitor | Charles L. Davis |
| 15 | US-6050940-A | 74 | 2000-04-18 | General-purpose medical instrumentation | Cybernet Systems Corporation |
| 16 | US-4803625-A | 72 | 1989-02-07 | Personal health monitor | Buddy Systems, Inc. |
| 17 | US-5778882-A | 71 | 1998-07-14 | Health monitoring system | Brigham And Women's Hospital |
| 18 | US-6893396-B2 | 71 | 2005-05-17 | Wireless internet bio-telemetry monitoring system and interface | I-Medik, Inc. |
| 19 | US-5336245-A | 71 | 1994-08-09 | Storage interrogation apparatus for cardiac data | Angeion Corporation |
| 20 | US-6480745-B2 | 68 | 2002-11-12 | Information network interrogation of an implanted device | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 21 | US-5544649-A | 67 | 1996-08-13 | Ambulatory patient health monitoring techniques utilizing interactive visual communication | Cardiomedix, Inc. |
| 22 | US-5897493-A | 67 | 1999-04-27 | Monitoring system for remotely querying individuals | Health Hero Network, Inc. |
| 23 | US-6418346-B1 | 66 | 2002-07-09 | Apparatus and method for remote therapy and diagnosis in medical devices via interface systems | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 24 | US-6225901-B1 | 66 | 2001-05-01 | Reprogrammable remote sensor monitoring system | Cardionet, Inc. |
| 25 | US-6599250-B2 | 66 | 2003-07-29 | Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 26 | US-4531527-A | 65 | 1985-07-30 | Ambulatory monitoring system with real time analysis and telephone transmission | Survival Technology, Inc. |
| 27 | US-5441047-A | 65 | 1995-08-15 | Ambulatory patient health monitoring techniques utilizing interactive visual communication | David; Daniel, David; Zipora |
| 28 | US-5687734-A | 64 | 1997-11-18 | Flexible patient monitoring system featuring a multiport transmitter | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 29 | US-5711297-A | 64 | 1998-01-27 | Computerized medical advice system and method including meta function | First Opinion Corporation |
| 30 | US-5357427-A | 63 | 1994-10-18 | Remote monitoring of high-risk patients using artificial intelligence | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| 31 | US-5987352-A | 60 | 1999-11-16 | Minimally invasive implantable device for monitoring physiologic events | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 32 | US-6804558-B2 | 60 | 2004-10-12 | System and method of communicating between an implantable medical device and a remote computer system or health care provider | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 33 | US-5997476-A | 58 | 1999-12-07 | Networked system for interactive communication and remote monitoring of individuals | Health Hero Network, Inc. |
| 34 | US-5113869-A | 58 | 1992-05-19 | Implantable ambulatory electrocardiogram monitor | Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc. |
| 35 | US-2004100376-A1 | 58 | 2004-05-27 | Healthcare monitoring system | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. |
| 36 | US-5438983-A | 57 | 1995-08-08 | Patient alarm detection using trend vector analysis | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 37 | US-4987897-A | 57 | 1991-01-29 | Body bus medical device communication system | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 38 | US-6336903-B1 | 57 | 2002-01-08 | Automated collection and analysis patient care system and method for diagnosing and monitoring congestive heart failure and outcomes thereof | Cardiac Intelligence Corp. |
| 39 | US-5785650-A | 57 | 1998-07-28 | Medical system for at-home patients | Akasaka; Noboru, Kurosawa; Masanori, Akai; Koji |
| 40 | US-6095985-A | 57 | 2000-08-01 | Health monitoring system | Brigham And Women's Hospital |
| 41 | US-5416695-A | 54 | 1995-05-16 | Method and apparatus for alerting patients and medical personnel of emergency medical situations | Metriplex, Inc. |
| 42 | US-5307263-A | 54 | 1994-04-26 | Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system | Raya Systems, Inc. |
| 43 | US-5720770-A | 54 | 1998-02-24 | Cardiac stimulation system with enhanced communication and control capability | Pacesetter, Inc. |
| 44 | US-6083248-A | 54 | 2000-07-04 | World wide patient location and data telemetry system for implantable medical devices | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 45 | US-5301105-A | 53 | 1994-04-05 | All care health management system | Desmond D. Cummings |
| 46 | US-5678562-A | 52 | 1997-10-21 | Ambulatory physiological monitor with removable disk cartridge and wireless modem | Burdick, Inc. |
| 47 | US-6250309-B1 | 52 | 2001-06-26 | System and method for transferring information relating to an implantable medical device to a remote location | Medtronic Inc |
| 48 | US-5558638-A | 52 | 1996-09-24 | Patient monitor and support system | Healthdyne, Inc. |
| 49 | US-6246992-B1 | 51 | 2001-06-12 | Multiple patient monitoring system for proactive health management | Health Hero Network, Inc. |
| 50 | US-4838275-A | 51 | 1989-06-13 | Home medical surveillance system | Lee Arnold St J |
| 51 | US-6047203-A | 51 | 2000-04-04 | Physiologic signs feedback system | Nims, Inc. |
| 52 | US-5899855-A | 50 | 1999-05-04 | Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system | Health Hero Network, Inc. |
| 53 | US-6287252-B1 | 49 | 2001-09-11 | Patient monitor | Monitrak |
| 54 | US-5876353-A | 49 | 1999-03-02 | Impedance monitor for discerning edema through evaluation of respiratory rate | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 55 | US-5619991-A | 49 | 1997-04-15 | Delivery of medical services using electronic data communications | Lucent Technologies Inc. |
| 56 | US-6443890-B1 | 49 | 2002-09-03 | Wireless internet bio-telemetry monitoring system | I-Medik, Inc. |
| 57 | US-6790178-B1 | 48 | 2004-09-14 | Physiological monitor and associated computation, display and communication unit | Healthetech, Inc. |
| 58 | US-2004199056-A1 | 48 | 2004-10-07 | Body monitoring using local area wireless interfaces | International Business Machines Corporation |
| 59 | US-6957107-B2 | 48 | 2005-10-18 | Method and apparatus for monitoring and communicating with an implanted medical device | Cardionet, Inc. |
| 60 | US-7156808-B2 | 48 | 2007-01-02 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity | Q-Tec Systems Llc |
| 61 | US-6485418-B2 | 47 | 2002-11-26 | Health monitoring system | Pioneer Corporation |
| 62 | US-2006202816-A1 | 47 | 2006-09-14 | Mobile wireless customizable health and condition monitor | Cindy Crump, Patrick Farrell, Bruce Wilson |
| 63 | US-6102856-A | 47 | 2000-08-15 | Wearable vital sign monitoring system | Groff; Clarence P, Mulvaney; Paul L |
| 64 | US-6312378-B1 | 47 | 2001-11-06 | System and method for automated collection and analysis of patient information retrieved from an implantable medical device for remote patient care | Cardiac Intelligence Corporation |
| 65 | US-4731726-A | 46 | 1988-03-15 | Patient-operated glucose monitor and diabetes management system | Healthware Corporation |
| 66 | US-7134996-B2 | 46 | 2006-11-14 | System and method for collection and analysis of patient information for automated remote patient care | Cardiac Intelligence Corporation |
| 67 | US-2006253301-A1 | 46 | 2006-11-09 | System and method for managing alert notifications in an automated patient management system | Simms Howard D, Hoyme Kenneth P, Johnson David C, Muralidharan Srivathsa, Kalgren James R |
| 68 | US-5339821-A | 46 | 1994-08-23 | Home medical system and medical apparatus for use therewith | Seta Co., Ltd., Nasa Corporation Co., Ltd. |
| 69 | US-5720771-A | 46 | 1998-02-24 | Method and apparatus for monitoring physiological data from an implantable medical device | Pacesetter, Inc. |
| 70 | US-5855593-A | 45 | 1999-01-05 | Prioritized rule based method and apparatus for diagnosis and treatment for arrhythmias | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 71 | US-2004122488-A1 | 45 | 2004-06-24 | Method and apparatus for enabling data communication between an implantable medical device and a patient management system | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. |
| 72 | US-6579231-B1 | 45 | 2003-06-17 | Personal medical monitoring unit and system | Mci Communications Corporation |
| 73 | US-5749907-A | 45 | 1998-05-12 | System and method for identifying and displaying medical data which violate programmable alarm conditions | Pacesetter, Inc. |
| 74 | US-6903657-B2 | 44 | 2005-06-07 | System and method of performing medical diagnosis in real time | Lg Electronics Inc. |
| 75 | US-2005021370-A1 | 44 | 2005-01-27 | Medical device systems implemented network scheme for remote patient management | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 76 | US-5050612-A | 44 | 1991-09-24 | Device for computer-assisted monitoring of the body | Matsumura Kenneth N |
| 77 | US-6454705-B1 | 44 | 2002-09-24 | Medical wellness parameters management system, apparatus and method | Cardiocom |
| 78 | US-6363282-B1 | 44 | 2002-03-26 | Apparatus and method to automatic remote software updates of medical device systems | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 79 | US-5724983-A | 44 | 1998-03-10 | Continuous monitoring using a predictive instrument | New England Center Hospitals, Inc. |
| 80 | US-2006200007-A1 | 44 | 2006-09-07 | Automatic etiology sequencing system | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. |
| 81 | US-7044911-B2 | 43 | 2006-05-16 | Gateway platform for biological monitoring and delivery of therapeutic compounds | Philometron, Inc. |
| 82 | US-5944659-A | 43 | 1999-08-31 | Architecture for TDMA medical telemetry system | Vitalcom Inc. |
| 83 | US-5437278-A | 43 | 1995-08-01 | Medical diagnosis system and method | Wilk; Peter J. |
| 84 | US-2004102683-A1 | 43 | 2004-05-27 | Method and apparatus for remotely monitoring the condition of a patient | Khanuja Sukhwant Singh, Sandeep Garg, Singh Irwin Preet |
| 85 | US-6022315-A | 42 | 2000-02-08 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system including network access | First Opinion Corporation |
| 86 | US-5113859-A | 42 | 1992-05-19 | Acoustic body bus medical device communication system | Medtronic, Inc. |
| 87 | US-6101478-A | 42 | 2000-08-08 | Multi-user remote health monitoring system | Health Hero Network |
| 88 | US-5673692-A | 42 | 1997-10-07 | Single site, multi-variable patient monitor | Biosignals Ltd. Co. |
| 89 | US-5724580-A | 42 | 1998-03-03 | System and method of generating prognosis and therapy reports for coronary health management | Qmed, Inc. |
| 90 | US-4173971-A | 42 | 1979-11-13 | Continuous electrocardiogram monitoring method and system for cardiac patients | Karz Allen E |
| 91 | US-5564429-A | 42 | 1996-10-15 | Method of identifying valid signal-carrying channels in a cardiorespiratory alert system | Vitalscan, Inc. |
| 92 | US-5827180-A | 42 | 1998-10-27 | Method and apparatus for a personal health network | Lifemasters Supported Selfcare |
| 93 | US-5891178-A | 42 | 1999-04-06 | Programmer system and associated methods for rapidly evaluating and programming an implanted cardiac device | Pacesetter, Inc. |
| 94 | US-6478736-B1 | 42 | 2002-11-12 | Integrated calorie management system | Healthetech, Inc. |
| 95 | US-2005137465-A1 | 42 | 2005-06-23 | System and method for remote monitoring in home activity of persons living independently | General Electric Company |
| 96 | US-5434611-A | 42 | 1995-07-18 | Home health care system which employs a two-way community antenna television network to permit communication between a doctor and patients at different locations | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| 97 | US-5911132-A | 41 | 1999-06-08 | Method using central epidemiological database | Lucent Technologies Inc. |
| 98 | US-2006135858-A1 | 41 | 2006-06-22 | Displaying information related to a physical parameter of an individual | International Business Machines Corporation |
| 99 | US-5957861-A | 41 | 1999-09-28 | Impedance monitor for discerning edema through evaluation of respiratory rate | Medtronic, Inc. |
- Provides a table with the same information as the previous Top Patent Document Citations table, except this table is sorted by assignee and is designed to identify the assignees with most significant intellectual property positions across the domain collection based on the total number of citations. This table aims to clearly show the corporations, educational institutions, individuals, or other entities that have broad positions in the IP sector profiled by the domain collection.
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| Index | Citation Publication Num Linked | Number of Patent Docs | Publication Date | Citation Title | Assignees | Tot Num of Patent Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | US-6442433-B1 | 93 | 2002-08-27 | Apparatus and method for remote troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrade of implantable device systems | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 1 | US-5752976-A | 81 | 1998-05-19 | World wide patient location and data telemetry system for implantable medical devices | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 2 | US-6480745-B2 | 68 | 2002-11-12 | Information network interrogation of an implanted device | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 3 | US-6418346-B1 | 66 | 2002-07-09 | Apparatus and method for remote therapy and diagnosis in medical devices via interface systems | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 4 | US-6599250-B2 | 66 | 2003-07-29 | Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 5 | US-5987352-A | 60 | 1999-11-16 | Minimally invasive implantable device for monitoring physiologic events | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 6 | US-6804558-B2 | 60 | 2004-10-12 | System and method of communicating between an implantable medical device and a remote computer system or health care provider | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 7 | US-4987897-A | 57 | 1991-01-29 | Body bus medical device communication system | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 8 | US-6083248-A | 54 | 2000-07-04 | World wide patient location and data telemetry system for implantable medical devices | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 9 | US-5876353-A | 49 | 1999-03-02 | Impedance monitor for discerning edema through evaluation of respiratory rate | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 10 | US-5855593-A | 45 | 1999-01-05 | Prioritized rule based method and apparatus for diagnosis and treatment for arrhythmias | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 11 | US-2005021370-A1 | 44 | 2005-01-27 | Medical device systems implemented network scheme for remote patient management | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 12 | US-6363282-B1 | 44 | 2002-03-26 | Apparatus and method to automatic remote software updates of medical device systems | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 13 | US-5113859-A | 42 | 1992-05-19 | Acoustic body bus medical device communication system | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 14 | US-5957861-A | 41 | 1999-09-28 | Impedance monitor for discerning edema through evaluation of respiratory rate | Medtronic, Inc. | 870 |
| 15 | US-6168563-B1 | 127 | 2001-01-02 | Remote health monitoring and maintenance system | Health Hero Network, Inc. | 353 |
| 16 | US-5897493-A | 67 | 1999-04-27 | Monitoring system for remotely querying individuals | Health Hero Network, Inc. | 353 |
| 17 | US-5997476-A | 58 | 1999-12-07 | Networked system for interactive communication and remote monitoring of individuals | Health Hero Network, Inc. | 353 |
| 18 | US-6246992-B1 | 51 | 2001-06-12 | Multiple patient monitoring system for proactive health management | Health Hero Network, Inc. | 353 |
| 19 | US-5899855-A | 50 | 1999-05-04 | Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system | Health Hero Network, Inc. | 353 |
| 20 | US-5720770-A | 54 | 1998-02-24 | Cardiac stimulation system with enhanced communication and control capability | Pacesetter, Inc. | 187 |
| 21 | US-5720771-A | 46 | 1998-02-24 | Method and apparatus for monitoring physiological data from an implantable medical device | Pacesetter, Inc. | 187 |
| 22 | US-5749907-A | 45 | 1998-05-12 | System and method for identifying and displaying medical data which violate programmable alarm conditions | Pacesetter, Inc. | 187 |
| 23 | US-5891178-A | 42 | 1999-04-06 | Programmer system and associated methods for rapidly evaluating and programming an implanted cardiac device | Pacesetter, Inc. | 187 |
| 24 | US-5576952-A | 90 | 1996-11-19 | Medical alert distribution system with selective filtering of medical information | Metriplex, Inc. | 144 |
| 25 | US-5416695-A | 54 | 1995-05-16 | Method and apparatus for alerting patients and medical personnel of emergency medical situations | Metriplex, Inc. | 144 |
| 26 | US-6024699-A | 92 | 2000-02-15 | Systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring, diagnosing and treating medical conditions of remotely located patients | Healthware Corporation | 138 |
| 27 | US-4731726-A | 46 | 1988-03-15 | Patient-operated glucose monitor and diabetes management system | Healthware Corporation | 138 |
| 28 | US-5778882-A | 71 | 1998-07-14 | Health monitoring system | Brigham And Women's Hospital | 128 |
| 29 | US-6095985-A | 57 | 2000-08-01 | Health monitoring system | Brigham And Women's Hospital | 128 |
| 30 | US-5687734-A | 64 | 1997-11-18 | Flexible patient monitoring system featuring a multiport transmitter | Hewlett-Packard Company | 121 |
| 31 | US-5438983-A | 57 | 1995-08-08 | Patient alarm detection using trend vector analysis | Hewlett-Packard Company | 121 |
| 32 | US-6893396-B2 | 71 | 2005-05-17 | Wireless internet bio-telemetry monitoring system and interface | I-Medik, Inc. | 120 |
| 33 | US-6443890-B1 | 49 | 2002-09-03 | Wireless internet bio-telemetry monitoring system | I-Medik, Inc. | 120 |
| 34 | US-6225901-B1 | 66 | 2001-05-01 | Reprogrammable remote sensor monitoring system | Cardionet, Inc. | 114 |
| 35 | US-6957107-B2 | 48 | 2005-10-18 | Method and apparatus for monitoring and communicating with an implanted medical device | Cardionet, Inc. | 114 |
| 36 | US-6416471-B1 | 112 | 2002-07-09 | Portable remote patient telemonitoring system | Nexan Limited | 112 |
| 37 | US-5711297-A | 64 | 1998-01-27 | Computerized medical advice system and method including meta function | First Opinion Corporation | 106 |
| 38 | US-6022315-A | 42 | 2000-02-08 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system including network access | First Opinion Corporation | 106 |
| 39 | US-6312378-B1 | 47 | 2001-11-06 | System and method for automated collection and analysis of patient information retrieved from an implantable medical device for remote patient care | Cardiac Intelligence Corporation | 93 |
| 40 | US-7134996-B2 | 46 | 2006-11-14 | System and method for collection and analysis of patient information for automated remote patient care | Cardiac Intelligence Corporation | 93 |
| 41 | US-6093146-A | 93 | 2000-07-25 | Physiological monitoring | Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. | 93 |
| 42 | US-6790178-B1 | 48 | 2004-09-14 | Physiological monitor and associated computation, display and communication unit | Healthetech, Inc. | 90 |
| 43 | US-6478736-B1 | 42 | 2002-11-12 | Integrated calorie management system | Healthetech, Inc. | 90 |
| 44 | US-5619991-A | 49 | 1997-04-15 | Delivery of medical services using electronic data communications | Lucent Technologies Inc. | 90 |
| 45 | US-5911132-A | 41 | 1999-06-08 | Method using central epidemiological database | Lucent Technologies Inc. | 90 |
| 46 | US-2004122488-A1 | 45 | 2004-06-24 | Method and apparatus for enabling data communication between an implantable medical device and a patient management system | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | 89 |
| 47 | US-2006200007-A1 | 44 | 2006-09-07 | Automatic etiology sequencing system | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | 89 |
| 48 | US-2004199056-A1 | 48 | 2004-10-07 | Body monitoring using local area wireless interfaces | International Business Machines Corporation | 89 |
| 49 | US-2006135858-A1 | 41 | 2006-06-22 | Displaying information related to a physical parameter of an individual | International Business Machines Corporation | 89 |
| 50 | US-5772586-A | 89 | 1998-06-30 | Method for monitoring the health of a patient | Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd. | 89 |
| 51 | US-6302844-B1 | 89 | 2001-10-16 | Patient care delivery system | Walker Digital, Llc | 89 |
| 52 | US-6336900-B1 | 88 | 2002-01-08 | Home hub for reporting patient health parameters | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | 88 |
| 53 | US-5704366-A | 83 | 1998-01-06 | System for monitoring and reporting medical measurements | Enact Health Management Systems | 83 |
| 54 | US-5553609-A | 83 | 1996-09-10 | Intelligent remote visual monitoring system for home health care service | Visiting Nurse Service, Inc., Indiana University Foundation | 83 |
| 55 | US-5390238-A | 82 | 1995-02-14 | Health support system | Motorola, Inc. | 82 |
| 56 | US-5331549-A | 79 | 1994-07-19 | Medical monitor system | Crawford Jr John M | 79 |
| 57 | US-5544661-A | 78 | 1996-08-13 | Real time ambulatory patient monitor | Charles L. Davis | 78 |
| 58 | US-6050940-A | 74 | 2000-04-18 | General-purpose medical instrumentation | Cybernet Systems Corporation | 74 |
| 59 | US-4803625-A | 72 | 1989-02-07 | Personal health monitor | Buddy Systems, Inc. | 72 |
| 60 | US-5336245-A | 71 | 1994-08-09 | Storage interrogation apparatus for cardiac data | Angeion Corporation | 71 |
| 61 | US-5544649-A | 67 | 1996-08-13 | Ambulatory patient health monitoring techniques utilizing interactive visual communication | Cardiomedix, Inc. | 67 |
| 62 | US-5441047-A | 65 | 1995-08-15 | Ambulatory patient health monitoring techniques utilizing interactive visual communication | David; Daniel, David; Zipora | 65 |
| 63 | US-4531527-A | 65 | 1985-07-30 | Ambulatory monitoring system with real time analysis and telephone transmission | Survival Technology, Inc. | 65 |
| 64 | US-5357427-A | 63 | 1994-10-18 | Remote monitoring of high-risk patients using artificial intelligence | Digital Equipment Corporation | 63 |
| 65 | US-2004100376-A1 | 58 | 2004-05-27 | Healthcare monitoring system | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | 58 |
| 66 | US-5113869-A | 58 | 1992-05-19 | Implantable ambulatory electrocardiogram monitor | Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc. | 58 |
| 67 | US-5785650-A | 57 | 1998-07-28 | Medical system for at-home patients | Akasaka; Noboru, Kurosawa; Masanori, Akai; Koji | 57 |
| 68 | US-6336903-B1 | 57 | 2002-01-08 | Automated collection and analysis patient care system and method for diagnosing and monitoring congestive heart failure and outcomes thereof | Cardiac Intelligence Corp. | 57 |
| 69 | US-5307263-A | 54 | 1994-04-26 | Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system | Raya Systems, Inc. | 54 |
| 70 | US-5301105-A | 53 | 1994-04-05 | All care health management system | Desmond D. Cummings | 53 |
| 71 | US-5678562-A | 52 | 1997-10-21 | Ambulatory physiological monitor with removable disk cartridge and wireless modem | Burdick, Inc. | 52 |
| 72 | US-5558638-A | 52 | 1996-09-24 | Patient monitor and support system | Healthdyne, Inc. | 52 |
| 73 | US-6250309-B1 | 52 | 2001-06-26 | System and method for transferring information relating to an implantable medical device to a remote location | Medtronic Inc | 52 |
| 74 | US-4838275-A | 51 | 1989-06-13 | Home medical surveillance system | Lee Arnold St J | 51 |
| 75 | US-6047203-A | 51 | 2000-04-04 | Physiologic signs feedback system | Nims, Inc. | 51 |
| 76 | US-6287252-B1 | 49 | 2001-09-11 | Patient monitor | Monitrak | 49 |
| 77 | US-7156808-B2 | 48 | 2007-01-02 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity | Q-Tec Systems Llc | 48 |
| 78 | US-2006202816-A1 | 47 | 2006-09-14 | Mobile wireless customizable health and condition monitor | Cindy Crump, Patrick Farrell, Bruce Wilson | 47 |
| 79 | US-6102856-A | 47 | 2000-08-15 | Wearable vital sign monitoring system | Groff; Clarence P, Mulvaney; Paul L | 47 |
| 80 | US-6485418-B2 | 47 | 2002-11-26 | Health monitoring system | Pioneer Corporation | 47 |
| 81 | US-5339821-A | 46 | 1994-08-23 | Home medical system and medical apparatus for use therewith | Seta Co., Ltd., Nasa Corporation Co., Ltd. | 46 |
| 82 | US-2006253301-A1 | 46 | 2006-11-09 | System and method for managing alert notifications in an automated patient management system | Simms Howard D, Hoyme Kenneth P, Johnson David C, Muralidharan Srivathsa, Kalgren James R | 46 |
| 83 | US-6579231-B1 | 45 | 2003-06-17 | Personal medical monitoring unit and system | Mci Communications Corporation | 45 |
| 84 | US-6454705-B1 | 44 | 2002-09-24 | Medical wellness parameters management system, apparatus and method | Cardiocom | 44 |
| 85 | US-6903657-B2 | 44 | 2005-06-07 | System and method of performing medical diagnosis in real time | Lg Electronics Inc. | 44 |
| 86 | US-5050612-A | 44 | 1991-09-24 | Device for computer-assisted monitoring of the body | Matsumura Kenneth N | 44 |
| 87 | US-5724983-A | 44 | 1998-03-10 | Continuous monitoring using a predictive instrument | New England Center Hospitals, Inc. | 44 |
| 88 | US-2004102683-A1 | 43 | 2004-05-27 | Method and apparatus for remotely monitoring the condition of a patient | Khanuja Sukhwant Singh, Sandeep Garg, Singh Irwin Preet | 43 |
| 89 | US-7044911-B2 | 43 | 2006-05-16 | Gateway platform for biological monitoring and delivery of therapeutic compounds | Philometron, Inc. | 43 |
| 90 | US-5944659-A | 43 | 1999-08-31 | Architecture for TDMA medical telemetry system | Vitalcom Inc. | 43 |
| 91 | US-5437278-A | 43 | 1995-08-01 | Medical diagnosis system and method | Wilk; Peter J. | 43 |
| 92 | US-5673692-A | 42 | 1997-10-07 | Single site, multi-variable patient monitor | Biosignals Ltd. Co. | 42 |
| 93 | US-2005137465-A1 | 42 | 2005-06-23 | System and method for remote monitoring in home activity of persons living independently | General Electric Company | 42 |
| 94 | US-6101478-A | 42 | 2000-08-08 | Multi-user remote health monitoring system | Health Hero Network | 42 |
| 95 | US-4173971-A | 42 | 1979-11-13 | Continuous electrocardiogram monitoring method and system for cardiac patients | Karz Allen E | 42 |
| 96 | US-5827180-A | 42 | 1998-10-27 | Method and apparatus for a personal health network | Lifemasters Supported Selfcare | 42 |
| 97 | US-5434611-A | 42 | 1995-07-18 | Home health care system which employs a two-way community antenna television network to permit communication between a doctor and patients at different locations | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | 42 |
| 98 | US-5724580-A | 42 | 1998-03-03 | System and method of generating prognosis and therapy reports for coronary health management | Qmed, Inc. | 42 |
| 99 | US-5564429-A | 42 | 1996-10-15 | Method of identifying valid signal-carrying channels in a cardiorespiratory alert system | Vitalscan, Inc. | 42 |
- Provides a table that identifies the most cited non-patent literature references across the domain collection and is designed to identify the most significant references beyond the patent document citations.
- The “Number of Patent Docs” column indicates the number of times the non-patent literature citation was referenced across all applications in the domain collection.
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| Index | Citation NPL Text | Number of Patent Docs |
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| 1 | Bruce, "Health Hero Network CEO, CNNfn", Digital Jam, (Dec. 1, 1999), 3. | 22 |
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| 4 | Martinez, Fernando D., "Complexities of the Genetics of Asthma", Am.J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., (1997), vol. 156, pp. S117-S122. | 22 |
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| 8 | Bruce, et al., "The Effects of Sympathetic Nervous System Activation and Psychological Stress . . . "; Diabetologia; 35(9); 1992; 835-843; Dialog: File 5, Acc#9629427. (9 pages). | 21 |
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| 10 | Reis, H, "Telemedicine: Transmitting Expertise to the Point of Care Toward an Electronic Patient Record"; '97, Nashville, TN, Apr. 27-May 3, 1997, pp. 248-256, v. 3. | 21 |
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