A61B 5/489
Blood vessels
Official title: {Blood vessels}
A61B5/489 (Blood vessels) appears on 962 US grants and 1,464 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 962
- Published applications
- 1,464
- Assignees
- 549
- Inventors
- 2,441
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 76 | 88 |
| 2024 | 78 | 80 |
| 2025 | 73 | 64 |
| 2026 | 39 | 52 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Blood vessel visualization apparatus, blood vessel puncture system, and observation window member29 Sep 2026US 12,745,909 B2Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Device for detecting and illuminating the vasculature using an FPGA22 Sep 2026US 12,740,747 B2AccuVein, Inc.
- Data analysis based methods and systems for optimizing insertion of a medical instrument8 Sep 2026US 12,727,830 B2Xact Robotics Ltd.
- Image rotation in an endoscopic hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging system1 Sep 2026US 12,721,509 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Vascular imaging device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,317 B2Oxford University Innovation Limited
- Optical fiber waveguide in an endoscopic system for hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306023 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Device for Detecting a Blood Vessel27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248451 A1Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Systems and methods for displaying distal fractional flow reserve values in vascular analysis30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221247 A1CathWorks Ltd.
- Blood Collection Apparatus and Method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207099 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Blood vessel visualization device, blood vessel visualization system, and blood vessel visualization method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207100 A1Institute of Science Tokyo
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sterile puncturing device for blood vessels with a non-sterile ultrasound probe, and apparatus for preparing the device1,457US 5,341,810 ASulzer Medizinaltechnik AG · 1994
- Fiber optic sensor guided navigation for vascular visualization and monitoring780US 10,194,801 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V. · 2019
- Method and system for providing recommendation for optimal execution of surgical procedures673US 10,244,991 B2Children's National Medical Center · 2019
- Noninvasive targeting system method and apparatus608US 7,697,966 B2Sensys Medical, Inc. · 2010
- Focused ultrasound surgery system guided by ultrasound imaging395US 5,769,790 AGeneral Electric Company · 1998