A61B 1/0669
At proximal end of an endoscope
Official title: {at proximal end of an endoscope}
A61B1/0669 (At proximal end of an endoscope) appears on 1,096 US grants and 1,290 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,096
- Published applications
- 1,290
- Assignees
- 378
- Inventors
- 1,838
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 61 | 58 |
| 2026 | 28 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method for supplementing a component of a medical instrument25 Aug 2026US 12,714,296 B2KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
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- Optical fiber waveguide in an endoscopic system for hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306023 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Endoscope and method for manufacturing endoscope1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294223 A1Kaneka Corporation
- Imaging system for medical endoscopic system, which removes honeycomb artifacts from images from multicore optical fibres10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262918 A1Axess Vision Technology
- Remote imaging system for medical endoscopic system for viewing a target27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248364 A1Axess Vision Technology
- Endoscope having multiple viewing directions20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240424 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for endoscopic procedures1,654US 8,647,258 B2Covidien LP · 2014
- Surgical imaging device1,451US 7,751,870 B2Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2010
- Endoscope system and method of operation thereof1,017US 9,861,261 B22018
- Use of laser light and red-green-blue coloration to determine properties of back scattered light532US 11,100,631 B2Cilag GmbH International · 2021
- Infrared endoscopic imaging in a liquid with suspended particles: method and apparatus418US 6,178,346 B12001