A61B 8/02
Measuring pulse or heart rate
A61B8/02 (Measuring pulse or heart rate) appears on 445 US grants and 649 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 445
- Published applications
- 649
- Assignees
- 255
- Inventors
- 1,085
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 24 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems, methods and electrodes for 4-dimensional ultrasound pulse-echo imaging of the neck and upper airway22 Sep 2026US 12,740,756 B2Volumetrics Medical Systems, LLC
- System for acoustic fetal heart rate monitoring15 Sep 2026US 12,733,902 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Method and apparatus for performing spectral doppler imaging8 Sep 2026US 12,727,859 B2Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
- Monitoring and treatment of injuries using wearable devices25 Aug 2026US 12,714,364 B2The Johns Hopkins University
- Method for ultrasonically measuring heart rate via finger, apparatus for ultrasonically measuring heart rate via finger, electronic device, and storage medium28 Jul 2026US 12,690,835 B2Huike (Singapore) Holding Pte. Ltd.
- Convolutional neural network for identification of anatomical landmark3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260476 A1Bfly Operations, Inc.
- Arrhythmia type determination device, arrhythmia type determination method, and recording medium27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248435 A1Kanadevia Corporation
- Interactive interface tool for waveform visualization and annotation27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248477 A1GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing program13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232294 A1Nihon Kohden Corporation
- Portable ultrasound system for image triggering and battery consumption reduction30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215764 A1Medtronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Non-invasive blood pressure measurement system684US 9,408,542 B1Masimo Corporation · 2016
- Method and system for patient-specific modeling of blood flow402US 8,315,812 B2HeartFlow, Inc. · 2012
- Ultrasound medical diagnostic device having a coupling medium providing self-adherence to a patient308US 5,394,877 AAxon Medical, Inc. · 1995
- Apparatus and method for endovascular device guiding and positioning using physiological parameters301US 8,597,193 B2Vasonova, Inc. · 2013
- Non-invasive blood pressure measurement system299US 10,052,037 B2Masimo Corporation · 2018