A61B 5/05
Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or
Official title: Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or magnetic fields; Measuring using microwaves or radio waves (measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof A61B5/11; detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof A61B5/24)
A61B5/05 (Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or) appears on 14,012 US grants and 20,516 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 14,012
- Published applications
- 20,516
- Assignees
- 4,913
- Inventors
- 28,779
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 12 | 0 |
| 1977 | 10 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
| 1979 | 15 | 0 |
| 1980 | 11 | 0 |
| 1981 | 17 | 0 |
| 1982 | 11 | 0 |
| 1983 | 7 | 0 |
| 1984 | 11 | 0 |
| 1985 | 14 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 20 | 0 |
| 1988 | 14 | 0 |
| 1989 | 22 | 0 |
| 1990 | 41 | 0 |
| 1991 | 33 | 0 |
| 1992 | 18 | 0 |
| 1993 | 33 | 0 |
| 1994 | 42 | 0 |
| 1995 | 43 | 0 |
| 1996 | 46 | 0 |
| 1997 | 33 | 0 |
| 1998 | 87 | 0 |
| 1999 | 69 | 0 |
| 2000 | 75 | 0 |
| 2001 | 105 | 60 |
| 2002 | 128 | 194 |
| 2003 | 129 | 233 |
| 2004 | 134 | 266 |
| 2005 | 117 | 326 |
| 2006 | 134 | 342 |
| 2007 | 145 | 330 |
| 2008 | 142 | 487 |
| 2009 | 155 | 528 |
| 2010 | 236 | 654 |
| 2011 | 270 | 547 |
| 2012 | 375 | 609 |
| 2013 | 521 | 845 |
| 2014 | 535 | 899 |
| 2015 | 542 | 1059 |
| 2016 | 605 | 1152 |
| 2017 | 762 | 1180 |
| 2018 | 703 | 1216 |
| 2019 | 1042 | 1262 |
| 2020 | 994 | 1352 |
| 2021 | 937 | 1292 |
| 2022 | 1023 | 1329 |
| 2023 | 954 | 1310 |
| 2024 | 984 | 1251 |
| 2025 | 998 | 1058 |
| 2026 | 639 | 735 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Thermal bimetal actuators for use in non-magnetic medical devices6 Oct 2026US 12,751,623 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Recommender system using cognitive pre-testing to select optimal MRI scanning tasks6 Oct 2026US 12,751,624 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Blood pressure detection method and apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,751,634 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Radar heartbeat signal detection based on PRT model shaping6 Oct 2026US 12,751,640 B2National Sun Yat-Sen University
- Measuring device for measuring cardiopulmonary state6 Oct 2026US 12,751,641 B2National Tsing Hua University
- Mapping electrodes from magnetic resonance imaging (mri) data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305945 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Systems and methods for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305946 A1Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- System for Obtaining Diagnostic Data Indicative of a Cardiac Condition of a Patient8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305956 A1Biotronik SE & Co.KG
- Measuring intracranial pressure using a cerebrospinal fluid shunt device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305967 A1Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Device for microwave measurement of a dielectric discontinuity of a material8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305968 A1Ubt S.R.L
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- Robot for surgical applications1,534US 7,126,303 B2Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska · 2006
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