A61B 5/683
Means for maintaining contact with the body
Official title: {Means for maintaining contact with the body (A61B5/6802 takes precedence)}
A61B5/683 (Means for maintaining contact with the body) appears on 5,989 US grants and 9,094 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 5,989
- Published applications
- 9,094
- Assignees
- 2,772
- Inventors
- 13,145
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 454 | 639 |
| 2025 | 439 | 447 |
| 2026 | 262 | 328 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Posturographic evaluation apparatus and method6 Oct 2026US 12,751,647 B2Centro Di Fisioterapia Di Cecilia Surace & C. S.A.S.
- Medical apparatus to be placed on the surface of a living body and an indwelling device that includes such a medical apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,751,650 B2Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Posture training6 Oct 2026US 12,751,666 B2
- Wearable device and airbag preparation method6 Oct 2026US 12,751,668 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Device, system, and method for determining patient body temperature29 Sep 2026US 12,745,912 B2Vital Connect, Inc.
- System for Obtaining Diagnostic Data Indicative of a Cardiac Condition of a Patient8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305956 A1Biotronik SE & Co.KG
- Methods, systems and devices for automated limb-based weight estimation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305977 A1Nura Medical Inc.
- Soft wearable patch for continuous cardiac biometric security8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305984 A1Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Electrocardiography patch8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306001 A1Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.
- Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306046 A1Cambridge Enterprise Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Analyte monitoring device and methods of use1,821US 6,560,471 B1TheraSense, Inc. · 2003
- Physiological monitor and associated computation, display and communication unit1,769US 6,790,178 B1Healthetech, Inc. · 2004
- Methods and apparatus for inhibiting contamination of reusable pulse oximetry sensors1,617US 5,619,992 A1997
- Wireless medical diagnosis and monitoring equipment1,499US 5,957,854 A1999
- Manual and automatic probe calibration1,429US 5,758,644 AMasimo Corporation · 1998