A61B 3/10
Objective types, i.e. instruments for examining the eyes independent of the patients'
Official title: Objective types, i.e. instruments for examining the eyes independent of the patients' perceptions or reactions
A61B3/10 (Objective types, i.e. instruments for examining the eyes independent of the patients') appears on 11,052 US grants and 12,633 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 11,052
- Published applications
- 12,633
- Assignees
- 3,068
- Inventors
- 14,870
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1978 | 15 | 0 |
| 1979 | 33 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 41 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 124 | 44 |
| 2002 | 125 | 136 |
| 2003 | 150 | 197 |
| 2004 | 125 | 213 |
| 2005 | 72 | 222 |
| 2006 | 100 | 219 |
| 2007 | 154 | 261 |
| 2008 | 197 | 288 |
| 2009 | 164 | 289 |
| 2010 | 252 | 377 |
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| 2013 | 345 | 532 |
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| 2018 | 573 | 739 |
| 2019 | 708 | 726 |
| 2020 | 652 | 726 |
| 2021 | 542 | 745 |
| 2022 | 497 | 708 |
| 2023 | 496 | 710 |
| 2024 | 552 | 663 |
| 2025 | 646 | 597 |
| 2026 | 412 | 509 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61B 3/14Arrangements specially adapted for eye photography3,541
- A61B 3/12For looking at the eye fundus2,904
- A61B 3/113For determining or recording eye movement2,588
- A61B 3/102For optical coherence tomography [oct]2,273
- A61B 3/13Ophthalmic microscopes963
- A61B 3/103For determining refraction953
- A61B 3/11For measuring interpupillary distance or diameter of pupils945
- A61B 3/107For determining the shape or measuring the curvature of the cornea874
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