A61B 5/03
Measuring fluid pressure within the body other than blood pressure
Official title: Measuring fluid pressure within the body other than blood pressure, e.g. cerebral pressure {; Measuring pressure in body tissues or organs (determining bladder or urethral pressure A61B5/205)}
A61B5/03 (Measuring fluid pressure within the body other than blood pressure) appears on 1,911 US grants and 2,411 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,911
- Published applications
- 2,411
- Assignees
- 1,101
- Inventors
- 4,142
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 49 | 67 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of diagnosing physiological disorders of the central nervous system15 Sep 2026US 12,734,343 B1
- Systems and methods for draining bodily fluids8 Sep 2026US 12,727,804 B2Potrero Medical, Inc.
- Device for determining the abdominal wall dynamic biomechanical behavior, and a method making use of such a device1 Sep 2026US 12,721,538 B2Assistance Publique - Hopitaux De Marseille
- Systems for and methods of performing gastrointestinal manometry25 Aug 2026US 12,714,325 B2Covidien LP
- Monitoring and treatment of injuries using wearable devices25 Aug 2026US 12,714,364 B2The Johns Hopkins University
- Implantable pressure sensor system for measurement and wireless transmission of internal pressures8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305953 A1Qura, Inc.
- Measuring intracranial pressure using a cerebrospinal fluid shunt device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305967 A1Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Intraocular physiological sensor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294264 A1Glaukos Corporation
- System and method for non-invasive determination of intracranial pressure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294265 A1Lions Eye Institute Limited
- Electrocardiography patch1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294312 A1Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device and method to measure and communicate body parameters1,630US 6,731,976 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2004
- Personal computer card for collection of real-time biological data1,114US 6,159,147 AQRS Diagnostics, LLC · 2000
- Techniques for data retention upon detection of an event in an implantable medical device1,040US 8,108,033 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2012
- Implantable monitoring probe935US 6,689,056 B1Medtronic Endonetics, Inc. · 2004
- Miniature implanted orthopedic sensors845US 6,447,448 B1Ball Semiconductor, Inc. · 2002