A61B 1/0016
Using motor drive units
Official title: {using motor drive units}
A61B1/0016 (Using motor drive units) appears on 782 US grants and 1,238 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 782
- Published applications
- 1,238
- Assignees
- 253
- Inventors
- 1,479
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 87 | 87 |
| 2025 | 67 | 86 |
| 2026 | 47 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Medical manipulator system and manipulation device18 Aug 2026US 12,708,248 B2Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Retrograde tethered capsule endomicroscopy systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305925 A1The General Hospital Corporation
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- Laparoscope drive system, laparoscope installation detection method, and surgical robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305932 A1Ronovo (Shanghai) Medical Science and Technology Ltd.
- Managing and manipulating a long length robotic endoscope10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262922 A1Neptune Medical Inc.
- Attachment mechanism for using an endoscope with a surgical robot3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256341 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tendon-driven endoscope and methods of insertion1,786US 6,858,005 B2Neo Guide Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Endoscope having a guide tube1,775US 6,837,846 B2Neo Guide Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Autofocus and/or autoscaling in telesurgery1,660US 8,079,950 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2011
- Endoscope system with an electric bending mechanism1,591US 4,499,895 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1985
- Articulation joint for video endoscope1,494US 7,591,783 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2009