A61B 6/102
Protection against mechanical damage
Official title: {Protection against mechanical damage, e.g. anti-collision devices}
A61B6/102 (Protection against mechanical damage) appears on 512 US grants and 522 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 512
- Published applications
- 522
- Assignees
- 152
- Inventors
- 1,096
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 7 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 | 9 |
| 2005 | 5 | 9 |
| 2006 | 8 | 13 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13 |
| 2008 | 9 | 19 |
| 2009 | 14 | 15 |
| 2010 | 16 | 7 |
| 2011 | 6 | 8 |
| 2012 | 4 | 14 |
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| 2015 | 12 | 30 |
| 2016 | 12 | 38 |
| 2017 | 21 | 24 |
| 2018 | 28 | 43 |
| 2019 | 35 | 28 |
| 2020 | 41 | 52 |
| 2021 | 38 | 33 |
| 2022 | 31 | 24 |
| 2023 | 29 | 28 |
| 2024 | 28 | 38 |
| 2025 | 23 | 16 |
| 2026 | 21 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Reliable first-fault-safety detection of collisions in medical devices29 Sep 2026US 12,745,970 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- Medical vehicles, CT devices, and driving methods thereof8 Sep 2026US 12,728,050 B2
- Multi-layered articulating patient support for a medical imaging system and a control system thereof25 Aug 2026US 12,714,376 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Compatibility production of a patient table and a medical imaging system25 Aug 2026US 12,714,378 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- Medical apparatus for x-ray analysis having movable support for breast25 Aug 2026US 12,714,381 B2Ims Giotto S.P.A.
- Multimodality Medical Procedure Mattress-Based Device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272743 A1Egg Medical, Inc.
- Medical device arrangement and method for detecting a distance shortfall in a medical device arrangement6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224177 A1Siemens Healthineers AG
- Collision-sensitive housing unit, x-ray device, and method of collision detection30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215745 A1
- Mobile Medical Imaging System Including A Latching System23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207147 A1Mobius Imaging, LLC
- Stabilization Assembly For A Mobile Medical System23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207150 A1Mobius Imaging, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatically-initialized robotic systems for navigation of luminal networks394US 10,022,192 B1Auris Health, Inc. · 2018
- Robotic systems for determining a roll of a medical device in luminal networks352US 10,159,532 B1Auris Health, Inc. · 2018
- Medical examination and treatment apparatus346US 7,813,838 B2Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · 2010
- Nuclear medicine SPECT-CT machine with integrated asymmetric flat panel cone-beam CT and SPECT system303US 8,462,911 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2013
- Collision avoidance during controlled movement of image capturing device and manipulatable device movable arms278US 9,259,282 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2016