A61B 5/6846
Specially adapted to be brought in contact with an internal body part
Official title: {specially adapted to be brought in contact with an internal body part, i.e. invasive}
A61B5/6846 (Specially adapted to be brought in contact with an internal body part) appears on 12,349 US grants and 18,258 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 12,349
- Published applications
- 18,258
- Assignees
- 3,614
- Inventors
- 21,001
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 93 | 29 |
| 2002 | 88 | 130 |
| 2003 | 104 | 154 |
| 2004 | 93 | 187 |
| 2005 | 74 | 205 |
| 2006 | 88 | 274 |
| 2007 | 91 | 285 |
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| 2018 | 591 | 1039 |
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| 2020 | 890 | 1275 |
| 2021 | 847 | 1338 |
| 2022 | 923 | 1233 |
| 2023 | 920 | 1197 |
| 2024 | 914 | 1159 |
| 2025 | 927 | 1041 |
| 2026 | 603 | 742 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61B 5/6847Mounted on an invasive device10,187
- A61B 5/6867Specially adapted to be attached or implanted in a specific body part2,456
- A61B 5/6879Means for maintaining contact with the body725
- A61B 5/6885Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure673
- A61B 5/6886Monitoring or controlling distance between sensor and tissue291
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