A61B 5/318
Heart-related electrical modalities
Official title: Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
A61B5/318 (Heart-related electrical modalities) appears on 10,323 US grants and 13,804 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 10,323
- Published applications
- 13,804
- Assignees
- 3,045
- Inventors
- 16,623
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 26 | 0 |
| 1977 | 13 | 0 |
| 1978 | 24 | 0 |
| 1979 | 16 | 0 |
| 1980 | 31 | 0 |
| 1981 | 23 | 0 |
| 1982 | 22 | 0 |
| 1983 | 20 | 0 |
| 1984 | 21 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 56 | 0 |
| 1998 | 79 | 0 |
| 1999 | 58 | 0 |
| 2000 | 68 | 0 |
| 2001 | 68 | 31 |
| 2002 | 94 | 155 |
| 2003 | 114 | 144 |
| 2004 | 97 | 212 |
| 2005 | 96 | 237 |
| 2006 | 128 | 243 |
| 2007 | 112 | 328 |
| 2008 | 101 | 320 |
| 2009 | 148 | 298 |
| 2010 | 209 | 410 |
| 2011 | 263 | 369 |
| 2012 | 297 | 375 |
| 2013 | 363 | 423 |
| 2014 | 484 | 617 |
| 2015 | 382 | 640 |
| 2016 | 443 | 740 |
| 2017 | 555 | 801 |
| 2018 | 454 | 731 |
| 2019 | 664 | 859 |
| 2020 | 593 | 798 |
| 2021 | 656 | 919 |
| 2022 | 655 | 952 |
| 2023 | 611 | 916 |
| 2024 | 643 | 885 |
| 2025 | 719 | 814 |
| 2026 | 466 | 587 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61B 5/346Analysis of electrocardiograms6,628
- A61B 5/339Displays specially adapted therefor1,616
- A61B 5/33Specially adapted for cooperation with other devices1,198
- A61B 5/332Portable devices specially adapted therefor1,036
- A61B 5/333Recording apparatus specially adapted therefor710
- A61B 5/367Electrophysiological study [eps]577
- A61B 5/327Generation of artificial ecg signals based on measured signals225
- A61B 5/321Accessories or supplementary instruments therefor161
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