A61B 5/0878
Using temperature sensing means
Official title: {using temperature sensing means}
A61B5/0878 (Using temperature sensing means) appears on 159 US grants and 231 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 159
- Published applications
- 231
- Assignees
- 157
- Inventors
- 533
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Passive, proportional measurement of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumption for assessment of metabolic parameters23 Sep 2025US 12,419,539 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bidirectional incentive spirometer20 May 2025US 12,303,250 B2
- Respiration rate measurement system18 Mar 2025US 12,251,210 B2The Regents of the University of Colorado
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- Nose ring apparatus for animal monitoring27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248602 A1State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization
- Non-Contact Diagnostic System For Respiratory Disease Prognosis Through Thermal-Depth Spatiotemporal Behavioral Modeling23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207075 A1The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
- Method for manufacturing biomaterial-based wearable sensor18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165603 A1Chung Ang University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Method and system for measuring respiratory flow by measuring change in air30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114802 A1SB Solutions Inc.
- Portable respiration monitoring system positioned in the pathway of respiration and configured with a disassembleable sensor/electronic assembly with a disposable thermal sensor23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108170 A1Linshom Medical, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ambulatory distributed recorders system for diagnosing medical disorders303US 6,306,088 B1Individual Monitoring Systems.Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for obtaining patient respiratory data227US 6,190,326 B1Medtrac Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Implantable medical device with sleep disordered breathing monitoring218US 6,964,641 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2005
- Integrated sleep apnea screening system163US 6,368,287 B1S.L.P. Ltd. · 2002
- System for measuring respiratory function129US 6,723,055 B2Trustees of Tufts College · 2004