A61B 1/00004
Characterised by electronic signal processing
Official title: {characterised by electronic signal processing}
A61B1/00004 (Characterised by electronic signal processing) appears on 4,880 US grants and 7,436 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 4,880
- Published applications
- 7,436
- Assignees
- 1,098
- Inventors
- 6,969
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9 |
| 2002 | 10 | 30 |
| 2003 | 14 | 21 |
| 2004 | 11 | 26 |
| 2005 | 11 | 35 |
| 2006 | 9 | 40 |
| 2007 | 15 | 72 |
| 2008 | 16 | 54 |
| 2009 | 12 | 79 |
| 2010 | 27 | 85 |
| 2011 | 39 | 107 |
| 2012 | 74 | 154 |
| 2013 | 110 | 254 |
| 2014 | 167 | 280 |
| 2015 | 157 | 313 |
| 2016 | 164 | 379 |
| 2017 | 237 | 452 |
| 2018 | 262 | 501 |
| 2019 | 373 | 577 |
| 2020 | 434 | 691 |
| 2021 | 435 | 653 |
| 2022 | 431 | 549 |
| 2023 | 451 | 590 |
| 2024 | 557 | 599 |
| 2025 | 503 | 567 |
| 2026 | 304 | 319 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program6 Oct 2026US 12,751,600 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- White balance adjustment jig for endoscope and white balance adjustment method for endoscope29 Sep 2026US 12,745,892 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Processor device, method of operating the same, and endoscope system29 Sep 2026US 12,745,893 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Techniques for generating superresolution presentations of medical procedure video data29 Sep 2026US 12,745,894 B1Verily Life Sciences LLC
- Endoscope and method of use29 Sep 2026US 12,745,896 B2Meditrina, Inc.
- Medical optical system, data processing system, computer program, and non-volatile computer-readable storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305912 A1Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
- Image processing adapter for endoscope8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305916 A1GYRUS ACMI INC. (d.b.a.Olympus Surgical Technologies America)
- Retrograde tethered capsule endomicroscopy systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305925 A1The General Hospital Corporation
- Dental plaque detection device, dental plaque detection method, and recording medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305927 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Dental imaging system and image analysis8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305928 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tendon-driven endoscope and methods of insertion1,786US 6,858,005 B2Neo Guide Systems, Inc. · 2005
- User interfaces for electrosurgical tools in robotic surgical systems1,715US 8,418,073 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2013
- Robotic instrument systems and methods utilizing optical fiber sensor1,319US 9,186,046 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2015
- Instrument for optically detecting tissue attributes1,271US 9,301,691 B2Covidien LP · 2016
- System and method for augmentation of endoscopic surgery1,240US 5,417,210 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995