A61B 5/442
Evaluating skin mechanical properties
Official title: {Evaluating skin mechanical properties, e.g. elasticity, hardness, texture, wrinkle assessment}
A61B5/442 (Evaluating skin mechanical properties) appears on 506 US grants and 747 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 747
- Assignees
- 381
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Measurement of surface roughness8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311352 A1Trinamix GmbH
- Skin Tone Scanning and Cosmetics in 3D Skin Tone Color Space10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262997 A1
- Skin condition measurement device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248445 A1Maruho Co., Ltd.
- A skin detection and operation robot system with external pressure detection function13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232259 A1Beijing Tashan Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Analytic methods of tissue evaluation810US 10,085,643 B22018
- Classification and screening of test subjects according to optical thickness of skin567US 6,738,652 B2Sensys Medical, Inc. · 2004
- Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging and characterization of skin tissue412US 6,081,612 AElectro-Optical Sciences, Inc. · 2000
- Medical monitoring device for harmonizing physiological measurements396US 11,026,604 B2Cercacor Laboratories, Inc. · 2021
- Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging and characterization of skin tissue371US 6,208,749 B1Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc. · 2001