A61B 2018/00904
Automatic detection of target tissue
Official title: {Automatic detection of target tissue}
A61B2018/00904 (Automatic detection of target tissue) appears on 565 US grants and 928 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 565
- Published applications
- 928
- Assignees
- 274
- Inventors
- 1,366
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method, device, and system for pre-biased tissue with lower-energy irreversible electroporation and tissue identification for pulse field immunotherapy22 Sep 2026US 12,740,818 B2Oso Medical, Inc.
- Intraoperative probe for cancer diagnosis and treatment11 Aug 2026US 12,702,304 B2123IV, Inc.
- Systems for improving the appearance of tissue11 Aug 2026US 12,702,473 B2Revelle Aesthetics, Inc.
- Energy delivery systems and uses thereof14 Jul 2026US 12,678,225 B2Neuwave Medical, Inc.
- Endoscopic vessel harvesting with thermal management and augmented reality display30 Jun 2026US 12,667,239 B2Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
- Cardiac ablation planning and restriction of ablation to electrodes in proximity to the planned ablation zone1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294499 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Catheter with deformation sensing24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283672 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Optimization and communication of compression and energy for sealing24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283680 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Methods and apparatus for treatment of body tissue24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283684 A1
- Systems and methods for lesion characterization in blood vessels23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207061 A1Eximo Medical Ltd.
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