A61B 2017/00725
Calibration or performance testing
Official title: {Calibration or performance testing}
A61B2017/00725 (Calibration or performance testing) appears on 1,087 US grants and 1,442 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,087
- Published applications
- 1,442
- Assignees
- 454
- Inventors
- 2,348
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 113 | 128 |
| 2024 | 123 | 131 |
| 2025 | 114 | 110 |
| 2026 | 70 | 64 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Adaptive positioning technology29 Sep 2026US 12,746,067 B2Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
- Simultaneous RF monopolar calibration using a shared return electrode22 Sep 2026US 12,740,824 B2Covidien LP
- Feedback algorithms for manual bailout systems for surgical instruments15 Sep 2026US 12,733,931 B2Cilag GmbH International
- System and method for planning and validating a procedure8 Sep 2026US 12,727,944 B2Medicrea International
- Technologies for homing a motor of a surgical stapler25 Aug 2026US 12,714,424 B1Cilag GmbH International
- Calibrated power-driven surgical cutting device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294469 A1The Spectranetics Corporation
- Spatiotemporal autocalibration of multi-segment robotic medical instruments1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294565 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Surgical System Priming With Pressure Calibration Utilizing Handpiece Orientation24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283848 A1Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- Load sensing of elongated medical device in robotic actuation10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263176 A1Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics, Inc.
- Robotic stapling and cutting systems and methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248503 A1Cilag GmbH International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Local in-device memory feature for electrically powered medical equipment2,344US 5,400,267 AHemostatix Corporation · 1995
- System and method for calibrating a surgical instrument2,277US 7,803,151 B2Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2010
- Circular stapler buttress combination2,275US 7,776,060 B2Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. · 2010
- Circular stapler buttress combination2,216US 7,128,748 B2Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Expandable anastomotic device2,145US 6,503,259 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2003