A61B 1/24
Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes
Official title: for the mouth, i.e. stomatoscopes, e.g. with tongue depressors; Instruments for opening or keeping open the mouth
A61B1/24 (Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes) appears on 1,429 US grants and 1,946 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,429
- Published applications
- 1,946
- Assignees
- 642
- Inventors
- 2,897
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 13 | 0 |
| 1991 | 15 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 8 | 0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 0 |
| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 12 | 0 |
| 1999 | 17 | 0 |
| 2000 | 16 | 0 |
| 2001 | 20 | 7 |
| 2002 | 15 | 18 |
| 2003 | 16 | 22 |
| 2004 | 18 | 33 |
| 2005 | 14 | 34 |
| 2006 | 19 | 33 |
| 2007 | 11 | 34 |
| 2008 | 11 | 43 |
| 2009 | 14 | 27 |
| 2010 | 18 | 51 |
| 2011 | 16 | 40 |
| 2012 | 27 | 43 |
| 2013 | 29 | 61 |
| 2014 | 30 | 87 |
| 2015 | 41 | 79 |
| 2016 | 57 | 99 |
| 2017 | 64 | 88 |
| 2018 | 73 | 111 |
| 2019 | 107 | 116 |
| 2020 | 91 | 129 |
| 2021 | 80 | 150 |
| 2022 | 83 | 130 |
| 2023 | 92 | 116 |
| 2024 | 107 | 148 |
| 2025 | 112 | 156 |
| 2026 | 71 | 91 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Multi-directional dental suction-mirror tool29 Sep 2026US 12,746,103 B2Rndent IP Ltd.
- Dental mirror tool22 Sep 2026US 12,740,696 B2
- Patient specific dynamic navigation tracker arm mount apparatus and method22 Sep 2026US 12,740,833 B2Digital Provisionalization Technologies, Inc.
- 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.
- 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
- Processing Device, Processing Program, Processing Method, And Processing System1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294209 A1Aillis Inc.
- Generation of a three-dimensional representation of a dental object during scanning with a dental imaging device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294597 A13Shape A/S
- 3d scanner for minimizing motion blur1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303972 A13Shape A/S
Most cited
By later US patents
- Over-tube, method of manufacturing over-tube, method of disposing over-tube, and method of treatment in abdominal cavity1,572US 7,645,230 B2Olympus Corporation · 2010
- Intra-oral camera system with chair-mounted display1,137US 7,139,016 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2006
- Over-tube, method of manufacturing over-tube, method of disposing over-tube, and method of treatment in abdominal cavity1,115US 8,784,304 B2Olympus Corporation · 2014
- Optical probe and method for the three-dimensional surveying of teeth365US 5,372,502 AKaltenbach & Voight GmbH & Co. · 1994
- Interface for viewing video from cameras on a surgical visualization system317US 8,882,662 B2CamPlex, Inc. · 2014