A61B 5/0059
Measuring for diagnostic purposes: using light
Official title: {using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence (photoacoustic A61B5/0093; optical measurement of heart rate A61B5/02416; optical measurement of blood flow A61B5/0261; optical measurement of analytes A61B5/1455)}
A61B5/0059 (Measuring for diagnostic purposes: using light) appears on 16,312 US grants and 23,984 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61B 5/0082Adapted for particular medical purposes5,601
- A61B 5/0062Arrangements for scanning4,344
- A61B 5/0077Devices for viewing the surface of the body3,972
- A61B 5/0075By spectroscopy, i.e. measuring spectra3,284
- A61B 5/0071By measuring fluorescence emission2,410
- A61B 5/0073By tomography, i.e. reconstruction of 3d images from 2d projections1,082
Recent patents
- Embedded marker system and method for surface biopsy procedures and benign, malignant and suspicious lesions6 Oct 2026US 12,751,625 B1Intraderm, LLC
- Method for identifying a region of a tumour6 Oct 2026US 12,751,626 B2Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
- Fiber optic needle probe6 Oct 2026US 12,751,627 B2Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
- Time-of-flight measurement on user with cameras and position sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,751,628 B2Omni Medsci, Inc.
- System and method for detecting recurrence of a disease6 Oct 2026US 12,751,629 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Oral care mode determination device, oral care mode determination method, and recording medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305810 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for medical procedures using optical coherence tomography sensing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305944 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Polarization sensitive biometric monitoring8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305947 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Technologies For Three-Dimensional Spectroscopic Imaging Of Tissue Properties8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305948 A1Colgate-Palmolive Company
- System, method and computer-accessible medium for providing optical plaque burden assessment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305949 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flexible instrument2,033US 7,090,683 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2006
- Device for seeking an area of interest within a body1,661US 5,188,111 ACatheter Research, Inc. · 1993
- Tissue biopsy and treatment apparatus and method1,617US 6,869,430 B2Rita Medical Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Flexible instrument1,588US 7,371,210 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2008
- Surgical instrument1,559US 6,843,793 B2endoVia Medical, Inc. · 2005