A61B 5/4343
Pregnancy and labour monitoring
Official title: {Pregnancy and labour monitoring, e.g. for labour onset detection}
A61B5/4343 (Pregnancy and labour monitoring) appears on 694 US grants and 840 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 694
- Published applications
- 840
- Assignees
- 424
- Inventors
- 1,708
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 22 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Tracking, reporting, and visualizing pregnancy-related analyte data15 Sep 2026US 12,733,866 B2DexCom, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for outputting pregnancy movements11 Aug 2026US 12,702,347 B2
- Diffusion dictionary imaging (DDI) of microstructure and inflammation11 Aug 2026US 12,704,577 B2Washington University
- Prenatal monitoring system4 Aug 2026US 12,697,037 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- System for reproductive monitoring23 Jun 2026US 12,661,019 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- Monitoring system and method for measuring a quantity of blood lost after vaginal delivery8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305952 A1Fondation Hopital Saint Joseph
- System for monitoring fetal status during childbirth24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283513 A1Heralife Medical, Inc.
- Noninvasive Transabdominal Fetal Electroencephalography24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283538 A1Yale University
- Fertility prediction from wearable-based physiological data17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272373 A1Oura Health Oy
- System and protocol for monitoring pregnancy health20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240487 A1AmpX Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- User interfaces for electrosurgical tools in robotic surgical systems1,715US 8,418,073 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2013
- Patient monitor and support system659US 5,558,638 AHealthdyne, Inc. · 1996
- Biometric monitoring device having a body weight sensor, and methods of operating same576US 8,475,367 B1Fitbit, Inc. · 2013
- Perinatal pulse oximetry sensor462US 4,938,218 ANellcor Incorporated · 1990
- Surgical system with user interfaces for electrosurgical tools314US 10,092,344 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2018