A61B 5/4509
Bone density determination
Official title: {Bone density determination}
A61B5/4509 (Bone density determination) appears on 249 US grants and 355 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 249
- Published applications
- 355
- Assignees
- 165
- Inventors
- 571
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 | 9 |
| 2006 | 4 | 6 |
| 2007 | 5 | 10 |
| 2008 | 2 | 9 |
| 2009 | 2 | 8 |
| 2010 | 3 | 44 |
| 2011 | 12 | 18 |
| 2012 | 7 | 19 |
| 2013 | 20 | 16 |
| 2014 | 19 | 24 |
| 2015 | 12 | 16 |
| 2016 | 21 | 18 |
| 2017 | 13 | 10 |
| 2018 | 8 | 14 |
| 2019 | 15 | 17 |
| 2020 | 9 | 16 |
| 2021 | 7 | 17 |
| 2022 | 18 | 28 |
| 2023 | 11 | 21 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5 |
| 2026 | 11 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Wearable device to monitor musculoskeletal loading, estimate tissue microdamage and provide injury risk biofeedback15 Sep 2026US 12,733,839 B2Vanderbilt University
- Systems, devices and methods for imaging cortical and trabecular bone1 Sep 2026US 12,724,097 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Patient specific bone preparation for consistent effective fixation feature engagement11 Aug 2026US 12,702,560 B2Stryker Corporation
- Orthopedic pin for optically analyzing a bone region30 Jun 2026US 12,667,401 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Systems, methods, and bone mapper devices for real-time mapping and analysis of bone tissue16 Jun 2026US 12,653,452 B2IX Innovation LLC
- Surgical system with checkpoint planning and navigation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306176 A1MAKO Surgical Corp.
- Method, system and uses for determining abdominal aortic calcification6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224115 A1Edith Cowan University
- Medical device for intraoperative measurement and interpretation of bone density during spinal surgery23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207124 A1University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
- Image generation device, image generation method, display device, image generation program, and recording medium18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165666 A1KYOCERA Corporation
- Body composition prediction by the summation of regional estimates determined from anatomical subregion geometry28 May 2026US 2026/0144484 A1The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical instrument703US 9,579,158 B2Ao Technology AG · 2017
- Systems and methods for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and, functional recovery tracking450US 9,129,054 B2DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. · 2015
- Method and apparatus for monitoring of daily activity in terms of ground reaction forces329US 6,183,425 B2The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2001
- Systems and methods for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking292US 9,700,292 B2DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. · 2017
- Animation technology257US 7,236,817 B2Macropace Products Pty Ltd. · 2007