A61B 1/00117
Optical cables in or with an endoscope
Official title: {Optical cables in or with an endoscope}
A61B1/00117 (Optical cables in or with an endoscope) appears on 226 US grants and 304 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 226
- Published applications
- 304
- Assignees
- 130
- Inventors
- 624
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 11 | 13 |
| 2026 | 10 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical unit and endoscope25 Aug 2026US 12,714,292 B2Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Systems and methods for modular endoscope18 Aug 2026US 12,708,255 B2Noah Medical Corporation
- Fiberoptic cable safety devices18 Aug 2026US 12,710,580 B2University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Endoscope and mounting system for a robotic surgical system11 Aug 2026US 12,702,501 B2Auris Health, Inc.
- Relay adapter and insertion instrument system7 Jul 2026US 12,672,761 B2Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Retrograde tethered capsule endomicroscopy systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305925 A1The General Hospital Corporation
- Relay adapter and insertion instrument system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294218 A1Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Remote imaging system for medical endoscopic system for viewing a target27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248364 A1Axess Vision Technology
- Medical Illumination Device for Medical Instrument,and Method for Supplying a Light Beam to a Medical Instrument20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240425 A1KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
- Medical devices having a reduced profile and related methods of use13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232178 A1Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hand manipulated endoscopic medical device565US 10,695,187 B2Moskowitz Family LLC · 2020
- Systems and methods for minimally-invasive optical-acoustic imaging180US 7,245,789 B2Vascular Imaging Corporation · 2007
- Endoscope with adapter155US 4,414,608 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1983
- Endoscope light source device150US 4,402,313 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1983
- Medical visualization system with endoscope and mounted catheter148US 7,922,650 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2011