A61B 5/228
Of masticatory organs
Official title: {of masticatory organs, e.g. detecting dental force}
A61B5/228 (Of masticatory organs) appears on 91 US grants and 137 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 91
- Published applications
- 137
- Assignees
- 94
- Inventors
- 338
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 1 | 8 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 5 | 7 |
| 2015 | 2 | 5 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 | 10 |
| 2018 | 2 | 8 |
| 2019 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11 |
| 2021 | 11 | 12 |
| 2022 | 6 | 12 |
| 2023 | 5 | 11 |
| 2024 | 2 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 | 9 |
| 2026 | 5 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Intraoral ambient sensing device264US 4,629,424 AIntegrated Ionics, Inc. · 1986
- Pressure sensor186US 6,272,936 B1Tekscan, Inc. · 2001
- Apparatus for measuring tongue/hard palate contact pressure121US 6,702,765 B2Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation · 2004
- Method and apparatus for sensing and treating bruxism73US 5,078,153 A1992
- Device and process for determining jaws position50US 4,932,867 AChugoku Shiken Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990