A61B 5/02007
Evaluating blood vessel condition
Official title: {Evaluating blood vessel condition, e.g. elasticity, compliance}
A61B5/02007 (Evaluating blood vessel condition) appears on 2,775 US grants and 4,173 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 2,775
- Published applications
- 4,173
- Assignees
- 1,288
- Inventors
- 5,857
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 183 | 202 |
| 2026 | 125 | 143 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
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- Multispectral photoacoustic devices15 Sep 2026US 12,733,817 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- System and methods for real time noninvasive estimation of cardiovascular parameters using machine learning15 Sep 2026US 12,733,820 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Implantable cerebral sensing devices and systems and methods related thereto15 Sep 2026US 12,733,821 B2Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- System, method and computer-accessible medium for providing optical plaque burden assessment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305949 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- System and method for instant and automatic border detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305950 A1Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- System and method for instant and automatic border detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305951 A1Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- Predicting probability of developing preeclampsia8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305957 A180 Beats Medical GmbH
- System and method for measuring characteristics of coronary arterial system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305961 A1Stallion Cardio, LLC
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