A61B 2017/00212
Using remote controls
Official title: {using remote controls}
A61B2017/00212 (Using remote controls) appears on 539 US grants and 745 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 745
- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 24 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- External adjustment device for distraction device29 Sep 2026US 12,746,040 B2Globus Medical, Inc.
- Feedback algorithms for manual bailout systems for surgical instruments15 Sep 2026US 12,733,931 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Technologies for homing a motor of a surgical stapler25 Aug 2026US 12,714,424 B1Cilag GmbH International
- External adjustment device18 Aug 2026US 12,708,406 B2NuVasive, Inc.
- Multi-panel graphical user interface for a robotic surgical system18 Aug 2026US 12,708,458 B2Auris Health, Inc.
- Computer-assisted tele-operated surgery systems and methods24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283725 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Methods And Systems For Setting Trajectories And Target Locations For Image Guided Surgery17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272569 A1Mobius Imaging, LLC
- Systems and methods for identification, mode-setting, and/or tracking of surgical instruments27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248491 A1Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
- A powered steerable system, a computer implemented method, and a computer program product for navigating an elongated surgical device through a bodily lumen of a patient27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248577 A1Artiria Medical SA
- External adjustment device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240570 A1NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automated endoscope system for optimal positioning2,652US 5,878,193 AComputer Motion, Inc. · 1999
- Drive interface for operably coupling a manipulatable surgical tool to a robot2,511US 8,479,969 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013
- Surgical instrument with elements to communicate between control unit and end effector2,491US 7,954,682 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2011
- Robotic apparatus2,381US 6,786,896 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2004
- Surgical instrument with wireless communication between a control unit of a robotic system and remote sensor2,233US 8,684,253 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014