A61B 5/4818
Sleep apnoea
Official title: {Sleep apnoea}
A61B5/4818 (Sleep apnoea) appears on 1,596 US grants and 2,699 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,596
- Published applications
- 2,699
- Assignees
- 802
- Inventors
- 3,637
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 80 | 128 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Sleep monitoring device6 Oct 2026US 12,751,855 B2
- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome diagnosis method using machine learning29 Sep 2026US 12,745,954 B2Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
- Wearable device, system and method for monitoring cardiac function/stress during apnoeic episode22 Sep 2026US 12,740,715 B2Turtle Shell Technologies Private Limited
- Therapeutic methods for sleep respiratory issues via a positional therapy device that monitors a users's head position22 Sep 2026US 12,740,742 B2SleepDev, Inc.
- Customizable patches8 Sep 2026US 12,727,823 B2Lifesignals, Inc.
- Intraoral sensors for health monitoring8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305973 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Technology configured to enable determination of sleep apnoea risk factors for subject based on artefacts of time-series eyelid amplitude data collected during conscious state8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305980 A1
- Monitoring sleeping disorders and system thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306014 A1Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (Upc)
- Systems and methods for improving sleep disordered breathing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311867 A1The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Device and method for detecting sleep apnea in a patient1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294335 A1Universite Du Luxembourg
Most cited
By later US patents
- Therapeutic treatment of sleep disorder by nerve stimulation1,291US 5,335,657 ACyberonics, Inc. · 1994
- Acoustic respiratory monitoring sensor having multiple sensing elements806US 8,690,799 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014
- Acoustic patient sensor804US 8,715,206 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014
- Non-invasive monitoring of respiratory rate, heart rate and apnea800US 8,641,631 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014
- Acoustic respiratory monitoring sensor having multiple sensing elements796US 8,755,535 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014