A61B 5/6843
Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure
Official title: {Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure}
A61B5/6843 (Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure) appears on 1,522 US grants and 2,241 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,522
- Published applications
- 2,241
- Assignees
- 870
- Inventors
- 4,010
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 128 | 170 |
| 2024 | 119 | 130 |
| 2025 | 104 | 123 |
| 2026 | 74 | 78 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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