A61B 1/0661
Endoscope light sources
Official title: {Endoscope light sources}
A61B1/0661 (Endoscope light sources) appears on 3,591 US grants and 5,131 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 3,591
- Published applications
- 5,131
- Assignees
- 1,198
- Inventors
- 6,157
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 21 | 0 |
| 2000 | 18 | 0 |
| 2001 | 25 | 10 |
| 2002 | 25 | 36 |
| 2003 | 24 | 40 |
| 2004 | 22 | 48 |
| 2005 | 19 | 60 |
| 2006 | 24 | 78 |
| 2007 | 19 | 121 |
| 2008 | 24 | 108 |
| 2009 | 38 | 111 |
| 2010 | 44 | 95 |
| 2011 | 52 | 128 |
| 2012 | 85 | 126 |
| 2013 | 114 | 194 |
| 2014 | 130 | 223 |
| 2015 | 134 | 230 |
| 2016 | 135 | 272 |
| 2017 | 187 | 351 |
| 2018 | 193 | 315 |
| 2019 | 247 | 391 |
| 2020 | 276 | 439 |
| 2021 | 287 | 402 |
| 2022 | 268 | 302 |
| 2023 | 285 | 304 |
| 2024 | 305 | 274 |
| 2025 | 250 | 306 |
| 2026 | 151 | 167 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Medical visualization and intubation systems6 Oct 2026US 12,751,606 B2Visurraga Enterprises, LLC
- Coaxial time-of-flight optical fiber distance measurement6 Oct 2026US 12,754,314 B2Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
- Processor device, method of operating the same, and endoscope system29 Sep 2026US 12,745,893 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Endoscope and method of use29 Sep 2026US 12,745,896 B2Meditrina, Inc.
- Injection needle with endoscope for regenerative medicine29 Sep 2026US 12,746,037 B2Psipz LLC
- Medical devices and related systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305920 A1Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited
- Insertion instrument8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305926 A1Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- 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
- Optical fiber waveguide in an endoscopic system for hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306023 A1Cilag GmbH International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Full thickness resection device1,857US 6,605,078 B2SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2003
- Device for intracorporal, minimal-invasive treatment of a patient1,663US 6,648,816 B2KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG · 2003
- Apparatus for endoscopic procedures1,654US 8,647,258 B2Covidien LP · 2014
- Articulation joint for video endoscope1,494US 7,591,783 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2009
- Surgical imaging device1,451US 7,751,870 B2Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2010