A61B 5/251
Means for maintaining electrode contact with the body
A61B5/251 (Means for maintaining electrode contact with the body) appears on 1,367 US grants and 2,133 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,367
- Published applications
- 2,133
- Assignees
- 932
- Inventors
- 4,168
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 14 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 15 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 12 | 0 |
| 1982 | 9 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2 |
| 2002 | 9 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 | 15 |
| 2004 | 6 | 12 |
| 2005 | 8 | 14 |
| 2006 | 9 | 23 |
| 2007 | 10 | 24 |
| 2008 | 5 | 21 |
| 2009 | 8 | 17 |
| 2010 | 12 | 25 |
| 2011 | 13 | 15 |
| 2012 | 21 | 25 |
| 2013 | 19 | 32 |
| 2014 | 35 | 69 |
| 2015 | 32 | 54 |
| 2016 | 28 | 61 |
| 2017 | 45 | 67 |
| 2018 | 40 | 79 |
| 2019 | 54 | 107 |
| 2020 | 57 | 117 |
| 2021 | 74 | 171 |
| 2022 | 92 | 236 |
| 2023 | 108 | 241 |
| 2024 | 119 | 257 |
| 2025 | 166 | 239 |
| 2026 | 114 | 204 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electrode device for amplitude-integrated electroencephalography6 Oct 2026US 12,751,657 B2Institut D'Investigació SanitàRia Pere Virgili
- Skin-preparation-free, stretchable microneedle adhesive patches for highly reliable electrophysiological monitoring6 Oct 2026US 12,751,658 B2Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Determining a biopotential of deep layer muscles22 Sep 2026US 12,740,736 B2Delsys Incorporated
- Conductive hydrogel paper-based device for synchronously monitoring physiological and biochemical parameters22 Sep 2026US 12,740,741 B2Zhejiang University
- Monitoring device and a data collector assembly22 Sep 2026US 12,740,748 B2Linxens Holding
- Interface structure for a bioelectrode8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306000 A1Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
- Systems and Methods For Determining Neurological Condition Based On Surface Biopotentials8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306028 A1Pison Technology, Inc.
- Gamified physical therapy rehabilitation system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306910 A1
- Wearable electronic device including electronic magnet8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310141 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Sleep-related breathing disorder monitoring method and system, and electronic device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294273 A1University of Science and Technology of China
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for detecting human physiological and contextual information1,245US 7,020,508 B2BodyMedia, Inc. · 2006
- Patient-worn wireless physiological sensor629US 10,226,187 B2Masimo Corporation · 2019
- Acoustic patient sensor coupler603US 9,955,937 B2Masimo Corporation · 2018
- Wireless patient monitoring systems and methods553US 10,383,527 B2Masimo Corporation · 2019
- Systems and methods for patient fall detection542US 10,448,844 B2Masimo Corporation · 2019