A61B 2018/00988
Means for storing information
Official title: {Means for storing information, e.g. calibration constants, or for preventing excessive use, e.g. usage, service life counter}
A61B2018/00988 (Means for storing information) appears on 800 US grants and 1,028 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Local in-device memory feature for electrically powered medical equipment2,344US 5,400,267 AHemostatix Corporation · 1995
- Accessing data stored in a memory of a surgical instrument2,216US 8,161,977 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2012
- Electrosurgical instrument and an electrosurgical electrode assembly2,131US 6,074,386 AGyrus Medical Limited · 2000
- Systems and methods to identify and disable re-use single use devices based on detecting environmental changes2,126US 6,611,793 B1SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2003
- Motorized surgical cutting and fastening instrument having handle based power source2,105US 8,657,174 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014