A61B 1/00036
Means for power saving
Official title: {Means for power saving, e.g. sleeping mode}
A61B1/00036 (Means for power saving) appears on 260 US grants and 375 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 260
- Published applications
- 375
- Assignees
- 79
- Inventors
- 420
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 10 |
| 2005 | 3 | 10 |
| 2006 | 8 | 17 |
| 2007 | 3 | 24 |
| 2008 | 2 | 34 |
| 2009 | 6 | 35 |
| 2010 | 5 | 24 |
| 2011 | 20 | 21 |
| 2012 | 29 | 15 |
| 2013 | 34 | 19 |
| 2014 | 22 | 17 |
| 2015 | 14 | 24 |
| 2016 | 7 | 11 |
| 2017 | 8 | 16 |
| 2018 | 20 | 11 |
| 2019 | 10 | 17 |
| 2020 | 11 | 10 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10 |
| 2022 | 9 | 13 |
| 2023 | 11 | 11 |
| 2024 | 11 | 4 |
| 2025 | 6 | 12 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus of adaptive leakage reduction for processor used in a capsule endoscope9 Jun 2026US 12,648,687 B2Capsovision Inc
- Wireless scanning device21 Apr 2026US 12,605,040 B23Shape A/S
- Power sources for wireless intraoral scanners14 Apr 2026US 12,599,286 B2Align Technology, Inc.
- Wireless stimulation probe device for wireless nerve integrity monitoring systems24 Mar 2026US 12,582,344 B2Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
- Automatically controlling an on/off state of a light source for an endoscope during a surgical procedure in an operating room23 Sep 2025US 12,419,493 B2Verb Surgical Inc.
- Wireless intraoral scanner with backup power source16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198758 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Battery packs for multiple types of video laryngoscopes29 Jan 2026US 2026/0026676 A1Covidien LP
- An intraoral scanner including an improved power management unit27 Nov 2025US 2025/0359971 A13Shape A/S
- System for monitoring usage conditions of a medical device23 Oct 2025US 2025/0325168 A1Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
- Ingestible device with propulsion and imaging capabilities2 Oct 2025US 2025/0302456 A1Endiatx, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Capsule medical apparatus1,019US 8,454,495 B2Olympus Corporation · 2013
- Device for in-vivo imaging441US 7,009,634 B2Given Imaging Ltd. · 2006
- Endoscopic smart probe and method335US 6,984,205 B22006
- Electronic endoscope194US 6,796,939 B1Olympus Corporation · 2004
- Ambulatory recorder having enhanced sampling technique165US 6,115,622 AMedtronic, Inc. · 2000