A61B 2562/0261
Strain gauges
A61B2562/0261 (Strain gauges) appears on 1,126 US grants and 1,701 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,126
- Published applications
- 1,701
- Assignees
- 748
- Inventors
- 3,267
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 2 |
| 2002 | 8 | 3 |
| 2003 | 7 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 5 | 7 |
| 2007 | 3 | 13 |
| 2008 | 3 | 13 |
| 2009 | 7 | 23 |
| 2010 | 3 | 21 |
| 2011 | 15 | 30 |
| 2012 | 16 | 26 |
| 2013 | 11 | 25 |
| 2014 | 16 | 38 |
| 2015 | 30 | 58 |
| 2016 | 34 | 106 |
| 2017 | 40 | 111 |
| 2018 | 51 | 106 |
| 2019 | 91 | 143 |
| 2020 | 90 | 160 |
| 2021 | 95 | 168 |
| 2022 | 104 | 149 |
| 2023 | 114 | 145 |
| 2024 | 114 | 115 |
| 2025 | 126 | 134 |
| 2026 | 79 | 92 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Apparatuses, methods, and systems for reconfigurable three-dimensional mesostructures8 Sep 2026US 12,727,807 B2The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Display of monitored patient position information1 Sep 2026US 12,721,566 B2Leaf Healthcare, Inc.
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- Real-time bladder sensing system through bio-implantable sensor element8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306026 A1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Non-invasive arterial monitoring system and method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294260 A1
- Technologies for intra-operative ligament balancing using machine learning24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283541 A1Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Diagnostic device for exercise induced laryngeal obstruction (eilo) and uses thereof24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283584 A1Children's National Medical Center
Most cited
By later US patents
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- Adjunct with integrated sensors to quantify tissue compression1,540US 9,724,094 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
- Monitoring device degradation based on component evaluation1,519US 9,737,301 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
- Time dependent evaluation of sensor data to determine stability, creep, and viscoelastic elements of measures1,481US 10,052,044 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2018