A61B 5/0053
By applying pressure
Official title: {by applying pressure, e.g. compression, indentation, palpation, grasping, gauging}
A61B5/0053 (By applying pressure) appears on 549 US grants and 777 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 777
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- 464
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- 1,716
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 31 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Pulse transit time measurement device and blood pressure measurement device1 Sep 2026US 12,721,535 B2OMRON Corporation
- Magnetic resonance elastography system for the prostate25 Aug 2026US 12,714,311 B2Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Device and method for assessing sternal compression18 Aug 2026US 12,708,294 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Strain-insensitive soft pressure sensor and method of measuring pressure11 Aug 2026US 12,702,302 B2The University of Chicago
- Material characterization method21 Jul 2026US 12,685,480 B2Universiteit Twente
- System for Obtaining Diagnostic Data Indicative of a Cardiac Condition of a Patient8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305956 A1Biotronik SE & Co.KG
- System and method for non-invasive determination of intracranial pressure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294265 A1Lions Eye Institute Limited
- 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.
- Bioimpedance ring sensor for physiological monitoring27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248405 A1The Texas A&M University System
- A skin detection and operation robot system with external pressure detection function13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232259 A1Beijing Tashan Technology Co., Ltd.
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By later US patents
- Surgical instrument with detection sensors992US 10,426,467 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2019
- High resolution device and method for imaging concealed objects within an obscuring medium367US 6,216,540 B12001
- Method and apparatus for elasticity imaging333US 5,524,636 AArtann Corporation dba Artann Laboratories · 1996
- Device and method for non-invasive optical measurements248US 7,313,425 B2Orsense Ltd. · 2007
- Pressure ulcer condition sensing and monitoring246US 6,287,253 B1Sabolich Research & Development · 2001