A61B 2034/2072
Reference field transducer attached to an instrument or patient
Official title: {Reference field transducer attached to an instrument or patient}
A61B2034/2072 (Reference field transducer attached to an instrument or patient) appears on 1,528 US grants and 2,025 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,528
- Published applications
- 2,025
- Assignees
- 427
- Inventors
- 2,425
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 33 | 15 |
| 2002 | 40 | 43 |
| 2003 | 27 | 52 |
| 2004 | 28 | 80 |
| 2005 | 20 | 91 |
| 2006 | 20 | 29 |
| 2007 | 17 | 31 |
| 2008 | 18 | 30 |
| 2009 | 23 | 28 |
| 2010 | 47 | 40 |
| 2011 | 44 | 62 |
| 2012 | 40 | 49 |
| 2013 | 44 | 36 |
| 2014 | 38 | 40 |
| 2015 | 26 | 28 |
| 2016 | 34 | 63 |
| 2017 | 30 | 101 |
| 2018 | 31 | 90 |
| 2019 | 61 | 128 |
| 2020 | 91 | 161 |
| 2021 | 97 | 147 |
| 2022 | 100 | 149 |
| 2023 | 146 | 168 |
| 2024 | 126 | 157 |
| 2025 | 167 | 118 |
| 2026 | 103 | 89 |
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
- Drive interface for operably coupling a manipulatable surgical tool to a robot2,511US 8,479,969 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013
- 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
- Image-directed robotic system for precise robotic surgery including redundant consistency checking2,101US 5,408,409 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Method and apparatus for performing stereotactic surgery1,805US 7,313,430 B2Medtronic Navigation, Inc. · 2007
- Guidance system and method for surgical procedures with improved feedback1,457US 7,831,292 B2MAKO Surgical Corp. · 2010