A61B 5/18
For vehicle drivers or machine operators
Official title: for vehicle drivers {or machine operators}
A61B5/18 (For vehicle drivers or machine operators) appears on 1,526 US grants and 2,089 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,526
- Published applications
- 2,089
- Assignees
- 770
- Inventors
- 3,965
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 6 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 3 |
| 2002 | 8 | 12 |
| 2003 | 8 | 19 |
| 2004 | 5 | 33 |
| 2005 | 13 | 25 |
| 2006 | 13 | 28 |
| 2007 | 15 | 22 |
| 2008 | 19 | 30 |
| 2009 | 16 | 42 |
| 2010 | 26 | 45 |
| 2011 | 17 | 32 |
| 2012 | 30 | 53 |
| 2013 | 33 | 59 |
| 2014 | 48 | 72 |
| 2015 | 51 | 95 |
| 2016 | 67 | 95 |
| 2017 | 80 | 154 |
| 2018 | 106 | 149 |
| 2019 | 126 | 151 |
| 2020 | 121 | 177 |
| 2021 | 120 | 169 |
| 2022 | 127 | 145 |
| 2023 | 109 | 135 |
| 2024 | 124 | 141 |
| 2025 | 115 | 112 |
| 2026 | 52 | 91 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Driver state determination device, in-vehicle device, driver state determination system, driver state determination method, and non-transitory storage medium storing driver state determination program24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283521 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Blood glucose insight generator for driving applications17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272353 A1Diabetes Innovation LLC
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Acoustic monitoring system699US 5,853,005 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 1998
- Emotive engine and method for generating a simulated emotion for an information system575US 8,812,171 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2014
- Contact device for placement in direct apposition to the conjunctive of the eye493US 6,312,393 B12001
- Sleep detection and driver alert apparatus480US 5,689,241 A1997