A61B 5/6844
Monitoring or controlling distance between sensor and tissue
Official title: {Monitoring or controlling distance between sensor and tissue}
A61B5/6844 (Monitoring or controlling distance between sensor and tissue) appears on 472 US grants and 781 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 472
- Published applications
- 781
- Assignees
- 349
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Electronic device for obtaining biometric information and method of controlling the same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248452 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Automatic pressure ulcer measurement20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245231 A1The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Reflection-detector sensor position indicator839US 8,346,330 B2Masimo Corporation · 2013
- Reflection-detector sensor position indicator599US 8,761,850 B2Masimo Corporation · 2014
- Proximity sensor in pulse oximeter554US 10,231,670 B2Masimo Corporation · 2019
- Reflection-detector sensor position indicator548US 9,119,595 B2Masimo Corporation · 2015
- Wearable monitoring and treatment device295US 8,644,925 B2ZOLL Medical Corporation · 2014