A61B 34/32
Operating autonomously
Official title: operating autonomously
A61B34/32 (Operating autonomously) appears on 1,089 US grants and 1,775 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,089
- Published applications
- 1,775
- Assignees
- 389
- Inventors
- 2,261
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 6 |
| 2005 | 1 | 7 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 |
| 2007 | 2 | 12 |
| 2008 | 2 | 29 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 4 | 6 |
| 2011 | 10 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 20 |
| 2013 | 8 | 19 |
| 2014 | 12 | 34 |
| 2015 | 20 | 23 |
| 2016 | 26 | 48 |
| 2017 | 37 | 68 |
| 2018 | 35 | 97 |
| 2019 | 48 | 103 |
| 2020 | 70 | 114 |
| 2021 | 83 | 127 |
| 2022 | 91 | 214 |
| 2023 | 118 | 253 |
| 2024 | 174 | 204 |
| 2025 | 213 | 218 |
| 2026 | 123 | 162 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for fault reaction mechanisms for medical robotic systems6 Oct 2026US 12,751,772 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Tool driver with reaction torque sensor for use in robotic surgery6 Oct 2026US 12,751,780 B2Auris Health, Inc.
- Two-tool anatomy stabilization6 Oct 2026US 12,751,781 B2LEM Surgical AG
- Bilateral surgical robotic system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,782 B2LEM Surgical AG
- Increasing mobility of computer-assisted systems while maintaining a partially constrained field of view29 Sep 2026US 12,746,079 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Autonomous orthopedics8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306155 A1
- Pullwire slack detection and adjustment for flexible elongate devices8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306196 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Device for automatically threading guide wire into valve and fully-automatic radiography robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306197 A1Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Biomedical Robot Co., Ltd.
- Spinal cord injury systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306843 A1Globus Medical, Inc.
- Intelligent positioning of robot arm cart8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310233 A1Mazor Robotics Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for passively decoupling torque applied by a remote actuator into an independently rotating member1,968US 9,095,362 B2Intutitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2015
- Insertable device and system for minimal access procedure1,731US 7,066,879 B2The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · 2006
- Decoupling instrument shaft roll and end effector actuation in a surgical instrument1,504US 8,992,565 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2015
- Minimally invasive surgical system1,355US 7,725,214 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2010
- Ultrasonic surgical system and method1,353US 9,675,375 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017