A61B 5/0048
Detecting, measuring or recording by applying mechanical forces or stimuli
Official title: {Detecting, measuring or recording by applying mechanical forces or stimuli (A61B5/021, A61B5/4884 and A61B9/00 take precedence)}
A61B5/0048 (Detecting, measuring or recording by applying mechanical forces or stimuli) appears on 1,175 US grants and 1,658 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,175
- Published applications
- 1,658
- Assignees
- 872
- Inventors
- 3,518
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 19 | 4 |
| 2002 | 13 | 13 |
| 2003 | 12 | 12 |
| 2004 | 7 | 35 |
| 2005 | 10 | 31 |
| 2006 | 16 | 37 |
| 2007 | 16 | 32 |
| 2008 | 6 | 28 |
| 2009 | 9 | 49 |
| 2010 | 27 | 47 |
| 2011 | 27 | 69 |
| 2012 | 35 | 50 |
| 2013 | 29 | 60 |
| 2014 | 34 | 76 |
| 2015 | 53 | 85 |
| 2016 | 42 | 84 |
| 2017 | 62 | 95 |
| 2018 | 56 | 97 |
| 2019 | 66 | 100 |
| 2020 | 67 | 132 |
| 2021 | 61 | 118 |
| 2022 | 96 | 102 |
| 2023 | 91 | 85 |
| 2024 | 71 | 83 |
| 2025 | 69 | 80 |
| 2026 | 53 | 54 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- System and method for non-invasive determination of intracranial pressure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294265 A1Lions Eye Institute Limited
- Mechanisms and methods for controlled volume injection into a soft media with concurrent pressure measurement24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283467 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Patient-wearable device for detecting a subpulse of a patient and related systems, methods and computer program products17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272315 A1Dandelion Medical Devices, Inc.
- Recognizing freezing of gait and deploying vibration to mitigate symptoms3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256383 A1
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