A61B 6/0492
Using markers or indicia for aiding patient positioning
Official title: {using markers or indicia for aiding patient positioning}
A61B6/0492 (Using markers or indicia for aiding patient positioning) appears on 359 US grants and 476 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 359
- Published applications
- 476
- Assignees
- 184
- Inventors
- 842
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Flexible capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays25 Aug 2026US 12,714,404 B2The University of British Columbia
- Apparatus and method for acquiring a position of a region to be examined18 Aug 2026US 12,708,283 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- Height compensation system for patient table11 Aug 2026US 12,702,367 B2Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd.
- Laser line projector for lateral cephalograms digital radiography4 Aug 2026US 12,697,082 B2
- Method for establishing compensation information to compensate for a bending of a couch in computed tomography, computed tomography facility, computer program and electronically readable data medium21 Jul 2026US 12,685,503 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- Method and apparatus for a simulated weight-bearing positioning system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294545 A1Orthios Innovations, LLC
- Multimodality Medical Procedure Mattress-Based Device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272743 A1Egg Medical, Inc.
- Imaging systems and methods6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224176 A1OXOS Medical, Inc.
- Surgical Navigation System6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224298 A1Alphatec Spine, Inc.
- Medical imaging apparatus, system and method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207291 A1Smartray Pty Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for determining a location of an anatomical target with reference to a medical apparatus593US 6,405,072 B1Sherwood Services AG · 2002
- Surgical positioning system280US 6,662,036 B2Sherwood Services AG · 2003
- System and method for generating partial surface from volumetric data for registration to surface topology image data147US 10,013,777 B27D Surgical Inc. · 2018
- System and method for generating partial surface from volumetric data for registration to surface topology image data121US 10,403,009 B27D Surgical Inc. · 2019
- Method and system for delivering a medical device to a selected position within a lumen103US 8,442,618 B2MediGuide Ltd. · 2013