A61B 5/065
Determining position of the probe employing exclusively positioning means located on or
Official title: {Determining position of the probe employing exclusively positioning means located on or in the probe, e.g. using position sensors arranged on the probe}
A61B5/065 (Determining position of the probe employing exclusively positioning means located on or) appears on 2,266 US grants and 3,236 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
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- Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for non-rigid registration of electromagnetic navigation space to CT volume25 Aug 2026US 12,714,329 B2Covidien LP
- Positioning system registration using mechanical linkages25 Aug 2026US 12,714,508 B2Auris Health, Inc.
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- Endoscope with adjacently positioned guiding apparatus1,945US 6,984,203 B2NeoGuide Systems, Inc. · 2006
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- 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
- Multiple sensors with one sensor affecting a second sensor's output or interpretation1,559US 9,757,128 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017