A61B 5/06
Devices, other than using radiation, for detecting or locating foreign bodies
Official title: Devices, other than using radiation, for detecting or locating foreign bodies {; Determining position of diagnostic devices within or on the body of the patient}
A61B5/06 (Devices, other than using radiation, for detecting or locating foreign bodies) appears on 5,707 US grants and 7,921 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 5,707
- Published applications
- 7,921
- Assignees
- 1,743
- Inventors
- 9,365
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 215 | 206 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Three-dimensional on-chip magnetic sensor for oscillating magnetic fields6 Oct 2026US 12,754,258 B2California Institute of Technology
- Arrangement with catheter and sensor arrangement22 Sep 2026US 12,740,749 B2Medyria AG
- Portable automatic control system for capsule endoscopy in stomach15 Sep 2026US 12,733,801 B2Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Systems and methods of managing erroneous signals in marker-based devices15 Sep 2026US 12,733,835 B2Endomagnetics Ltd
- Methods and systems for determining fluid content of tissue15 Sep 2026US 12,733,904 B2Zoll Medical Israel Ltd.
- Mapping electrodes from magnetic resonance imaging (mri) data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305945 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Sterile Cover for Medical Devices and Methods Thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305971 A1Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Hybrid registration method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305972 A1Covidien LP
- System for indicating proximity to transeptal site with electro-anatomical catheter sheath8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306007 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Medical device tracking with shortest distance detection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294267 A1DeepSight Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Endoscope with adjacently positioned guiding apparatus1,945US 6,984,203 B2NeoGuide Systems, Inc. · 2006
- Tendon-driven endoscope and methods of insertion1,786US 6,858,005 B2Neo Guide Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Endoscope having a guide tube1,775US 6,837,846 B2Neo Guide Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Robotic catheter system1,662US 7,972,298 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2011
- Digital wireless position sensor1,639US 7,397,364 B2Biosense Webster, Inc. · 2008