A61B 2034/2061
Using shape-sensors
Official title: {using shape-sensors, e.g. fiber shape sensors with Bragg gratings}
A61B2034/2061 (Using shape-sensors) appears on 1,015 US grants and 1,570 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,015
- Published applications
- 1,570
- Assignees
- 235
- Inventors
- 1,443
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 7 |
| 2008 | 0 | 35 |
| 2009 | 0 | 12 |
| 2010 | 8 | 11 |
| 2011 | 11 | 33 |
| 2012 | 8 | 31 |
| 2013 | 20 | 63 |
| 2014 | 23 | 38 |
| 2015 | 30 | 45 |
| 2016 | 33 | 83 |
| 2017 | 28 | 64 |
| 2018 | 48 | 89 |
| 2019 | 66 | 99 |
| 2020 | 78 | 132 |
| 2021 | 76 | 140 |
| 2022 | 81 | 114 |
| 2023 | 112 | 178 |
| 2024 | 139 | 170 |
| 2025 | 157 | 128 |
| 2026 | 92 | 92 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for fault reaction mechanisms for medical robotic systems6 Oct 2026US 12,751,772 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- System with removable hubs for manual and robotic procedure29 Sep 2026US 12,746,077 B2Imperative Care, Inc.
- Systems and methods of steerable elongate device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,504 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Systems and methods for adaptive input mapping22 Sep 2026US 12,740,843 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Methods and systems for instrument tracking and navigation within luminal networks8 Sep 2026US 12,727,950 B2Auris Health, Inc.
- Surface-tracking sensor grid and method for shielding an in-vivo interventional system from an external magnetic distortion8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306185 A1Magnisity Ltd.
- Pullwire slack detection and adjustment for flexible elongate devices8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306196 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Skeleton model instrument localization1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294268 A1Auris Health, Inc.
- Binary encoding for wire identification24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283698 A1Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods related to elongate devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283703 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic surgery system including position sensors using fiber bragg gratings1,733US 7,930,065 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2011
- Retrograde instrument1,626US 8,551,076 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2013
- Passive preload and capstan drive for surgical instruments1,443US 9,259,274 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2016
- Minimally invasive surgical system1,355US 7,725,214 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2010
- Robotic instrument systems and methods utilizing optical fiber sensor1,319US 9,186,046 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2015