A61B 5/1172
Using fingerprinting
Official title: using fingerprinting
A61B5/1172 (Using fingerprinting) appears on 967 US grants and 1,082 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 967
- Published applications
- 1,082
- Assignees
- 517
- Inventors
- 2,051
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 25 | 33 |
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Capacitive fingerprint sensor327US 4,353,056 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 1982
- High resolution ultrasonic imaging apparatus and method238US 5,456,256 AUltra-Scan Corporation · 1995
- Surgical data control system217US 10,733,267 B2Surgical Black Box LLC · 2020
- Topographical object detection system206US 5,986,746 AImedge Technology, Inc. · 1999
- Finger identification205US 4,322,163 AFingermatrix, Inc. · 1982