A61B 2562/0204
Acoustic sensors
A61B2562/0204 (Acoustic sensors) appears on 1,210 US grants and 2,116 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,210
- Published applications
- 2,116
- Assignees
- 910
- Inventors
- 4,065
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 130 | 198 |
| 2025 | 120 | 162 |
| 2026 | 86 | 112 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Wearable medical device29 Sep 2026US 12,745,956 B2Sanofi
- In vivo fluid flow sensor29 Sep 2026US 12,745,975 B2Canary Medical Switzerland AG
- Sensing respiration parameters based on an impedance signal22 Sep 2026US 12,740,722 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- Compact mobile three-lead cardiac monitoring device with hybrid electrode15 Sep 2026US 12,733,824 B2HeartBeam, Inc.
- Digestive canal scanning device, body scanning device, body scanning method and acoustic-based digestive organ monitoring system15 Sep 2026US 12,733,896 B2Korea University Research and Business Foundation
- Monitoring sleeping disorders and system thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306014 A1Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (Upc)
- Systems and Methods for Automated Detection of Breath Sounds24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283501 A1The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Device and method for capturing and evaluating vibroacoustic signals24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283585 A1Surag Medical GmbH.
- Wearable devices for multi-modal monitoring of a medical condition17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272309 A1Analog Devices, Inc.
- Patient-wearable device for detecting a subpulse of a patient and related systems, methods and computer program products17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272315 A1Dandelion Medical Devices, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Piezoelectric biological sound monitor with printed circuit board1,136US 6,661,161 B1Andromed, Inc. · 2003
- Method for monitoring patient using acoustic sensor823US 6,527,729 B1Pacesetter, Inc. · 2003
- Acoustic respiratory monitoring sensor having multiple sensing elements806US 8,690,799 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014
- Acoustic patient sensor804US 8,715,206 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014
- Non-invasive monitoring of respiratory rate, heart rate and apnea800US 8,641,631 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014