A61B 5/1135
By monitoring thoracic expansion
Official title: {by monitoring thoracic expansion}
A61B5/1135 (By monitoring thoracic expansion) appears on 743 US grants and 1,037 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 743
- Published applications
- 1,037
- Assignees
- 538
- Inventors
- 1,986
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 9 | 14 |
| 2003 | 5 | 8 |
| 2004 | 5 | 16 |
| 2005 | 8 | 19 |
| 2006 | 7 | 27 |
| 2007 | 9 | 27 |
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| 2010 | 25 | 33 |
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| 2016 | 32 | 50 |
| 2017 | 42 | 67 |
| 2018 | 34 | 53 |
| 2019 | 29 | 72 |
| 2020 | 47 | 68 |
| 2021 | 51 | 66 |
| 2022 | 48 | 54 |
| 2023 | 64 | 74 |
| 2024 | 35 | 67 |
| 2025 | 42 | 50 |
| 2026 | 25 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Radar system having a photonics-based signal generator15 Sep 2026US 12,736,615 B2The University of Sydney
- Breath volume monitoring systems and methods18 Aug 2026US 12,708,287 B2MyAir, Inc.
- Breathing amplitude detection system, method, and computer program based on micro force detection18 Aug 2026US 12,708,291 B2
- Non-contact MRI in-bore motion sensing method using CW Doppler radar with band-pass filtering11 Aug 2026US 12,702,300 B2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Multi-sensor device for monitoring health11 Aug 2026US 12,702,319 B2Analog Devices, Inc.
- Monitoring sleeping disorders and system thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306014 A1Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (Upc)
- Estimating respiration rate using a dimensionality reduction algorithm1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294269 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Device and method for detecting sleep apnea in a patient1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294335 A1Universite Du Luxembourg
- Remote Monitoring of a Type of Arrhythmia1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294355 A1Lexi Devices, Inc.
- Low cost respiration sensing using mm wave radar17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272322 A1Welch Allyn, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cardiorespiratory alert system1,033US 5,348,008 ASomnus Corporation · 1994
- Sensor apparatus611US 5,353,793 AOishi-Kogyo Company · 1994
- Systems and methods for ambulatory monitoring of physiological signs507US 6,551,252 B2VivoMetrics, Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for detecting and treating obstructive sleep apnea500US 5,540,733 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1996
- Health monitoring system464US 5,778,882 AThe Brigham and Women S Hospital, Inc. · 1998