A61B 5/42
Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the gastrointestinal, the endocrine or the
Official title: {Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the gastrointestinal, the endocrine or the exocrine systems (A61B1/00, A61B5/4857, A61B5/486, A61B5/4866, A61B5/4869 take precedence)}
A61B5/42 (Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the gastrointestinal, the endocrine or the) appears on 2,268 US grants and 3,571 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 2,268
- Published applications
- 3,571
- Assignees
- 1,472
- Inventors
- 6,266
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 12 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 0 |
| 1995 | 14 | 0 |
| 1996 | 14 | 0 |
| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 26 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 25 | 0 |
| 2001 | 16 | 13 |
| 2002 | 25 | 31 |
| 2003 | 20 | 28 |
| 2004 | 13 | 52 |
| 2005 | 10 | 35 |
| 2006 | 22 | 47 |
| 2007 | 14 | 52 |
| 2008 | 15 | 94 |
| 2009 | 22 | 77 |
| 2010 | 28 | 82 |
| 2011 | 39 | 80 |
| 2012 | 57 | 101 |
| 2013 | 59 | 102 |
| 2014 | 66 | 136 |
| 2015 | 84 | 192 |
| 2016 | 72 | 177 |
| 2017 | 142 | 305 |
| 2018 | 129 | 241 |
| 2019 | 170 | 262 |
| 2020 | 161 | 285 |
| 2021 | 172 | 259 |
| 2022 | 158 | 245 |
| 2023 | 168 | 210 |
| 2024 | 162 | 213 |
| 2025 | 153 | 173 |
| 2026 | 89 | 79 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for evaluating possibility of dysphagia by analyzing acoustic signals, and server and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium performing same6 Oct 2026US 12,751,662 B2Dain Technology, Inc.
- Medical string kit29 Sep 2026US 12,745,929 B2
- Thyroid function monitoring method according to medication, and monitoring server and user terminal performing the same29 Sep 2026US 12,745,949 B2Thyroscope Inc.
- Hyperhidrosis diagnostic device and method29 Sep 2026US 12,745,950 B211025368 Canada Inc.
- Tissue hydration monitor29 Sep 2026US 12,745,955 B2Hydrostasis, Inc.
- Stretchable, rechargeable, multimodal hybrid electronics for decoupled sensing toward emotion detection24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283519 A1The Penn State Research Foundation
- Temperature controlled bed device for determining sleep phase24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284350 A1Eight Sleep Inc.
- Temperature controlled bed device for determining user history24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284351 A1Eight Sleep Inc.
- Combined fluorescence and laser speckle contrast imaging system and applications of same10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262995 A1Vanderbiltuniversity
- System and method for determining characteristics of a milk-containing system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262996 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Gastric treatment and diagnosis device and method1,899US 6,535,764 B2IntraPace, Inc. · 2003
- Implantable monitoring probe935US 6,689,056 B1Medtronic Endonetics, Inc. · 2004
- Methods and devices for measuring impedance in a gastric restriction system876US 8,192,350 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2012
- Measuring user health as measured by multiple diverse health measurement devices utilizing a personal storage device725US 6,440,068 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2002
- Remote physiological monitoring system638US 6,285,897 B1Endonetics, Inc. · 2001