A61B 46/13
The drapes entering the patient's body
Official title: the drapes entering the patient's body
A61B46/13 (The drapes entering the patient's body) appears on 139 US grants and 184 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 139
- Published applications
- 184
- Assignees
- 88
- Inventors
- 340
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Medical condom and automatic medical condom supply device22 Sep 2026US 12,740,761 B2IBMsol CO., LTD.
- Robotic microsurgical assembly5 May 2026US 12,616,542 B2Medical Microinstruments, Inc.
- Systems and methods for draping a medical device17 Feb 2026US 12,551,308 B2Stryker Corporation
- Open-field handheld fluorescence imaging systems and methods4 Nov 2025US 12,464,215 B2Stryker Corporation
- Sheathes for surgical instruments, and related devices and methods3 Jun 2025US 12,318,165 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Through-Barrier Connection Systems and Methods1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294572 A1Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- An isolator module for robotic arm30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216904 A1Uimei Srls
- Component insertion system30 Oct 2025US 2025/0331944 A1
- Systems, devices, and methods for multi-modal imaging and analysis2 Oct 2025US 2025/0302309 A1Moleculight Inc.
- Sheathes for surgical instruments, and related devices and methods14 Aug 2025US 2025/0255688 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical robotic tools, data architecture, and use2,959US 6,331,181 B1Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2001
- Multi-component telepresence system and method2,738US 6,132,368 AIntuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2000
- Mechanical actuator interface system for robotic surgical tools2,625US 6,491,701 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2002
- Mechanical actuator interface system for robotic surgical tools2,486US 7,524,320 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2009
- Surgical robotic tools, data architecture, and use2,161US 6,866,671 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2005