A61B 6/12
Arrangements for detecting or locating foreign bodies
A61B6/12 (Arrangements for detecting or locating foreign bodies) appears on 2,655 US grants and 3,480 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 2,655
- Published applications
- 3,480
- Assignees
- 930
- Inventors
- 4,895
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991 | 12 | 0 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 18 | 0 |
| 1994 | 9 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 20 | 0 |
| 1999 | 13 | 0 |
| 2000 | 19 | 0 |
| 2001 | 18 | 11 |
| 2002 | 39 | 27 |
| 2003 | 20 | 40 |
| 2004 | 24 | 44 |
| 2005 | 20 | 67 |
| 2006 | 21 | 79 |
| 2007 | 15 | 82 |
| 2008 | 35 | 122 |
| 2009 | 43 | 98 |
| 2010 | 66 | 113 |
| 2011 | 56 | 100 |
| 2012 | 75 | 161 |
| 2013 | 83 | 205 |
| 2014 | 125 | 214 |
| 2015 | 133 | 188 |
| 2016 | 149 | 200 |
| 2017 | 139 | 213 |
| 2018 | 159 | 217 |
| 2019 | 187 | 220 |
| 2020 | 200 | 213 |
| 2021 | 170 | 154 |
| 2022 | 164 | 171 |
| 2023 | 152 | 159 |
| 2024 | 153 | 156 |
| 2025 | 155 | 139 |
| 2026 | 83 | 87 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- X-ray diagnostic apparatus, medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and computer-readable non-transitory storage medium for storing medical image processing program1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294363 A1Canon Medical Systems Corporation
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By later US patents
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- Apparatus and method for photogrammetric surgical localization981US 6,491,702 B2Sofamor Danek Holdings, Inc. · 2002
- Surgical navigation systems including reference and localization frames831US 6,236,875 B1St. Louis University · 2001
- Fluoroscopic image guided orthopaedic surgery system with intraoperative registration823US 5,772,594 A1998