A61B 5/0028
Body tissue as transmission medium, i.e. transmission systems where the medium is
Official title: {Body tissue as transmission medium, i.e. transmission systems where the medium is the human body}
A61B5/0028 (Body tissue as transmission medium, i.e. transmission systems where the medium is) appears on 293 US grants and 421 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 293
- Published applications
- 421
- Assignees
- 162
- Inventors
- 745
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Medical implant with wireless communication22 Sep 2026US 12,740,706 B2Oslo Universitetssykehus Hf
- Methods and systems related to remote measuring and sensing18 Aug 2026US 12,711,335 B2William Marsh Rice University
- Biosensors for the gastrointestinal tract4 Aug 2026US 12,697,044 B2Enterasense Limited
- Medical device system27 Jan 2026US 12,533,027 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Flow measurement through OCT16 Dec 2025US 12,495,971 B2LightLab Imaging, Inc.
- Actuation of an internalized device via in-body communication1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294247 A1Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Sensor using electro-quasistatic human body communication23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207054 A1Eli Lilly and Company
- Biometric acquisition device25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174370 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Biosignal measurement system9 Apr 2026US 2026/0096763 A1NTT, Inc.
- Flow Measurement Through OCT5 Mar 2026US 2026/0060547 A1LightLab Imaging, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Plural module medication delivery system1,974US 4,494,950 AThe Johns Hopkins University · 1985
- Implantable sensor with wireless communication922US 6,409,674 B1Data Sciences International, Inc. · 2002
- Body bus medical device communication system810US 4,987,897 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1991
- Acoustic body bus medical device communication system650US 5,113,859 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1992
- System and method for near-field human-body coupling for encrypted communication with identification cards553US 5,796,827 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998