A61B 6/503
For diagnosis of the heart
Official title: {for diagnosis of the heart}
A61B6/503 (For diagnosis of the heart) appears on 1,399 US grants and 1,815 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,399
- Published applications
- 1,815
- Assignees
- 418
- Inventors
- 2,543
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 5 |
| 2003 | 9 | 13 |
| 2004 | 8 | 40 |
| 2005 | 19 | 57 |
| 2006 | 19 | 53 |
| 2007 | 20 | 52 |
| 2008 | 25 | 88 |
| 2009 | 35 | 63 |
| 2010 | 47 | 88 |
| 2011 | 42 | 84 |
| 2012 | 63 | 84 |
| 2013 | 78 | 87 |
| 2014 | 75 | 106 |
| 2015 | 87 | 125 |
| 2016 | 81 | 113 |
| 2017 | 82 | 98 |
| 2018 | 96 | 91 |
| 2019 | 95 | 103 |
| 2020 | 94 | 86 |
| 2021 | 84 | 73 |
| 2022 | 79 | 72 |
| 2023 | 70 | 48 |
| 2024 | 74 | 88 |
| 2025 | 53 | 60 |
| 2026 | 40 | 36 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods and systems for identifying a heart condition in a non-human subject using predictive models6 Oct 2026US 12,755,842 B2IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
- AI-based medical imaging analysis of photon counting data1 Sep 2026US 12,721,576 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- Systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination25 Aug 2026US 12,714,382 B2Cleerly, Inc.
- Procedure information overlay over angiography data25 Aug 2026US 12,714,518 B2Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
- Reconstruction device, X-ray CT apparatus, and image processing device18 Aug 2026US 12,711,681 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- System, method and computer-accessible medium for providing automated image path registration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311350 A1Koninklijke Philps N.V.
- X-ray ct apparatus, medical image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294375 A1Canon Medical Systems Corporation
- Systems and methods for predicting coronary plaque vulnerability from patient-specific anatomic image data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294543 A1HeartFlow, Inc.
- Systems and methods for predicting coronary plaque vulnerability from patient-specific anatomic image data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294544 A1HeartFlow, Inc.
- Aneurysm modeling, risk prediction, and visualization1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301342 A1University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods using a robotic catheter system1,763US 7,850,642 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2010
- Robotic catheter system1,662US 7,972,298 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2011
- Catheters for imaging, sensing electrical potentials, and ablating tissue1,241US 5,588,432 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1996
- Robotic catheter system and methods1,076US 8,190,238 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2012
- Apparatus and method for treating cardiac arrhythmias with no discrete target740US 5,718,241 ABiosense, Inc. · 1998