A61B 2034/252
Indicating steps of a surgical procedure
Official title: {indicating steps of a surgical procedure}
A61B2034/252 (Indicating steps of a surgical procedure) appears on 905 US grants and 1,385 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- 29 Sep 2026
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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
- Systems and methods for providing guidance for a robotic medical procedure29 Sep 2026US 12,746,074 B2MAKO Surgical Corp.
- Soft tissue modeling and planning system for orthopedic surgical procedures15 Sep 2026US 12,733,978 B2Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
- Utilization of surgical data values and situational awareness to control the overlay in surgical field view15 Sep 2026US 12,737,991 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Technique for guiding a surgeon on how to adapt a pre-planned position of at least one implant interface8 Sep 2026US 12,727,943 B2Stryker European Operations Limited
- Teleoperated surgical system with patient health records based instrument control1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294567 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Three-dimensional reconstruction of anatomical region using three-dimensional ultrasound24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283696 A1
- Surgical robotics system with dynamic gap capture24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283708 A1MAKO Surgical Corp.
- Robotic surgical system with recovery alignment24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284880 A1MAKO Surgical Corp.
- Planning and guidance for composite ablations10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263153 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical biopsy system with remote control for selecting an operational mode1,887US 6,752,768 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2004
- Interactive displays1,824US 9,283,054 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
- User interfaces for electrosurgical tools in robotic surgical systems1,715US 8,418,073 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2013
- Closure indicator systems for surgical instruments1,647US 9,445,813 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
- Surgical instrument with stowing knife blade1,642US 8,991,678 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2015