A61B 7/006
Detecting skeletal, cartilage or muscle noise
Official title: {Detecting skeletal, cartilage or muscle noise (A61B7/003 and A61B7/008 take precedence)}
A61B7/006 (Detecting skeletal, cartilage or muscle noise) appears on 74 US grants and 104 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 104
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 254
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of articular and periarticular pathology399US 4,823,807 ABoard of Regents, Univ. of Texas System · 1989
- Implantable heart sound sensor with noise cancellation145US 7,682,316 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2010
- Third heart sound activity index for heart failure monitoring143US 7,115,096 B2Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for diagnosing joints120US 5,413,116 ABioResearch Inc. · 1995
- Method for obtaining a signal for analyzing human and animal joint functions107US 4,986,281 AStarkey Laboratories, Inc. · 1991