A61B 1/00172
With means for scanning
Official title: {with means for scanning}
A61B1/00172 (With means for scanning) appears on 595 US grants and 916 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 595
- Published applications
- 916
- Assignees
- 260
- Inventors
- 1,314
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 6 | 7 |
| 2003 | 7 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 7 |
| 2005 | 8 | 11 |
| 2006 | 2 | 12 |
| 2007 | 8 | 18 |
| 2008 | 10 | 32 |
| 2009 | 9 | 26 |
| 2010 | 9 | 24 |
| 2011 | 11 | 23 |
| 2012 | 17 | 26 |
| 2013 | 22 | 40 |
| 2014 | 20 | 37 |
| 2015 | 29 | 53 |
| 2016 | 28 | 53 |
| 2017 | 33 | 57 |
| 2018 | 35 | 71 |
| 2019 | 40 | 60 |
| 2020 | 49 | 60 |
| 2021 | 39 | 57 |
| 2022 | 49 | 45 |
| 2023 | 40 | 46 |
| 2024 | 41 | 51 |
| 2025 | 44 | 63 |
| 2026 | 23 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Hand-held scanner8 Sep 2026US 12,727,753 B2Medit Corp.
- Three-dimensional scanner and control method8 Sep 2026US 12,727,975 B2J. Morita Mfg. Corp.
- Intraoral scanner, intraoral scanning system, method for performing intraoral scans and computer program product14 Jul 2026US 12,678,036 B2Sopro
- System to remove from an image unnecessary objects identified by an intraoral scanner16 Jun 2026US 12,653,650 B2J. Morita Mfg. Corp.
- Endoscopy device and endoscopy system with annular view26 May 2026US 12,635,863 B2KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
- Methods for interproximal reduction using 3d scanner17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272609 A1
- Horizontal Wing Scanflag for Full Arch Scanning and Enhanced Matching Accuracy in Intraoral Scanning Systems17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272618 A1
- Dental modeling device and method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272619 A1Zetta25 AG
- Endoscope having multiple viewing directions20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240424 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Wireless intraoral scan image forming apparatus30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215670 A1Huvitz Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for optical imaging with means for controlling the longitudinal range of the sample1,199US 5,321,501 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope1,079US 6,134,003 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements1,018US 5,459,570 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1995
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003