A61B 5/073
Intestinal transmitters
Official title: {Intestinal transmitters}
A61B5/073 (Intestinal transmitters) appears on 683 US grants and 1,101 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 683
- Published applications
- 1,101
- Assignees
- 282
- Inventors
- 1,338
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 2 | 15 |
| 2004 | 2 | 26 |
| 2005 | 6 | 33 |
| 2006 | 9 | 36 |
| 2007 | 6 | 44 |
| 2008 | 10 | 58 |
| 2009 | 18 | 86 |
| 2010 | 24 | 66 |
| 2011 | 36 | 51 |
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| 2017 | 26 | 56 |
| 2018 | 36 | 51 |
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| 2020 | 32 | 44 |
| 2021 | 35 | 59 |
| 2022 | 39 | 44 |
| 2023 | 37 | 35 |
| 2024 | 36 | 37 |
| 2025 | 20 | 31 |
| 2026 | 14 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Drug delivery device with carrier and insert18 Aug 2026US 12,708,284 B2Biograil ApS
- Medical patch11 Aug 2026US 12,702,359 B2Given Imaging Ltd.
- Bioimpedance sensor-integrated capsule for monitoring4 Aug 2026US 12,697,043 B2University of Maryland, College Park
- Biosensors for the gastrointestinal tract4 Aug 2026US 12,697,044 B2Enterasense Limited
- Intelligent in vivo Capsule Device with Electrodes6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224094 A1Capsovision Inc
- Ingestible device, a system and a method for analysis of the gastrointestinal tract and a wearable device for localization of an ingestible device25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174390 A1Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Method, computer program product, analysis device, and system for identifying and localizing an unhealthy gut state in a gastrointestinal tract4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151047 A1Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Devices, systems, and methods relating sensing elasticity of biological tissues28 May 2026US 2026/0144443 A1
- Magneto-mechanical resonators with reduced mutual attraction7 May 2026US 2026/0123848 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- In vivo video camera system678US 5,604,531 AState of Israel, Ministry of Defense, Armament Development Authority · 1997
- Telemetry capsule and process665US 5,279,607 AGastrotarget Corp. · 1994
- Ingestible size continuously transmitting temperature monitoring pill567US 4,844,076 AThe Johns Hopkins University · 1989
- Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery548US 7,291,497 B2Theranos, Inc. · 2007
- Device for in-vivo imaging441US 7,009,634 B2Given Imaging Ltd. · 2006