A61B 6/0485
Inflatable rests for lifting of patients
Official title: {Inflatable rests for lifting of patients}
A61B6/0485 (Inflatable rests for lifting of patients) appears on 51 US grants and 40 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 51
- Published applications
- 40
- Assignees
- 29
- Inventors
- 77
- Latest grant
- 16 Sep 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Inflatable support16 Sep 2025US 12,414,891 B2D.T. Davis Enterprises, Ltd.
- Displacement mechanism for patient controlled placement and removal of an optical device in a confined space environment8 Apr 2025US 12,268,465 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Positioning system2 Jul 2024US 12,023,185 B2Saint Louis University
- Inflatable support12 Apr 2022US 11,298,282 B2D.T. Davis Enterprises, Ltd.
- Pneumatic chair jack7 Dec 2021US 11,191,686 B2D.T. Davis Enterprises, Ltd.
- Displacement mechanism for patient controlled placement and removal of an optical device in a confined space environment26 Jun 2025US 2025/0204780 A1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Medical image diagnosis apparatus25 Jan 2024US 2024/0023724 A1Canon Medical Systems Corporation
- Displacement mechanism for patient controlled placement and removal of an optical device in a confined space environment8 Jun 2023US 2023/0172452 A1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Inflatable support28 Jul 2022US 2022/0233386 A1D.T. Davis Enterprises, Ltd. (d.b.a. Hovertech International)
- Pneumatic chair jack26 May 2022US 2022/0160562 A1D.T. Davis Enterprises, Ltd. (d.b.a. Hovertech International)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical procedure with magnetic resonance imaging266US 5,735,278 ANational Research Council of Canada · 1998
- Inflatable medical patient transfer apparatus210US 6,073,291 A2000
- Apparatus and method for use in medical imaging180US 5,349,956 AApogee Medical Products, Inc. · 1994
- Multipositional MRI for kinematic studies of movable joints173US 5,899,859 AFonar Corporation · 1999
- Proning bed157US 6,282,736 B1Hill-Rom Services, Inc. · 2001