A61B 3/102
For optical coherence tomography [oct]
Official title: {for optical coherence tomography [OCT]}
A61B3/102 (For optical coherence tomography [oct]) appears on 2,273 US grants and 2,957 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 2,273
- Published applications
- 2,957
- Assignees
- 534
- Inventors
- 2,767
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 3 |
| 2002 | 4 | 0 |
| 2003 | 2 | 11 |
| 2004 | 8 | 6 |
| 2005 | 3 | 13 |
| 2006 | 5 | 14 |
| 2007 | 4 | 42 |
| 2008 | 20 | 39 |
| 2009 | 26 | 40 |
| 2010 | 38 | 74 |
| 2011 | 51 | 112 |
| 2012 | 37 | 147 |
| 2013 | 68 | 150 |
| 2014 | 134 | 197 |
| 2015 | 152 | 177 |
| 2016 | 156 | 194 |
| 2017 | 182 | 230 |
| 2018 | 169 | 219 |
| 2019 | 205 | 174 |
| 2020 | 180 | 200 |
| 2021 | 149 | 185 |
| 2022 | 133 | 173 |
| 2023 | 121 | 170 |
| 2024 | 135 | 139 |
| 2025 | 172 | 141 |
| 2026 | 92 | 107 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Processing system for OCT imaging, OCT imaging system and method for OCT imaging6 Oct 2026US 12,751,613 B2Leica Microsystems Nc, Inc.
- Speckle aware clinical decision support system for retinal diseases6 Oct 2026US 12,751,614 B2
- Lyme related infection indicator6 Oct 2026US 12,751,617 B2Dr Rp Holdings, LLC
- Methods and systems for determining change in eye position between successive eye measurements29 Sep 2026US 12,745,905 B2AMO Development, LLC
- Method, a device and a system for numerical data processing22 Sep 2026US 12,740,700 B2OPTOPOL Technology Spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia
- Device for detecting fluorescence images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305933 A1Heidelberg Engineering GmbH
- Ophthalmic injection robot and system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306295 A1Alcon Inc.
- Machine learning personalized retinal disease care8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311326 A1The Johns Hopkins University
- Freeform optical coherence tomography beyond the optical field-of-view limit1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294234 A1Northwestern University
- Systems, apparatus and methods for treatment of retinal and macular diseases using artificial intelligence1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294235 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for optical imaging with means for controlling the longitudinal range of the sample1,199US 5,321,501 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope1,079US 6,134,003 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements1,018US 5,459,570 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1995
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003