A61B 8/40
Positioning of patients
Official title: {Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body}
A61B8/40 (Positioning of patients) appears on 375 US grants and 576 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 375
- Published applications
- 576
- Assignees
- 220
- Inventors
- 1,005
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 8 |
| 2004 | 3 | 9 |
| 2005 | 1 | 8 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12 |
| 2007 | 2 | 9 |
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| 2009 | 7 | 11 |
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| 2011 | 6 | 13 |
| 2012 | 6 | 18 |
| 2013 | 7 | 40 |
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| 2015 | 12 | 50 |
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| 2017 | 15 | 34 |
| 2018 | 18 | 39 |
| 2019 | 31 | 41 |
| 2020 | 17 | 51 |
| 2021 | 27 | 25 |
| 2022 | 34 | 17 |
| 2023 | 27 | 35 |
| 2024 | 21 | 39 |
| 2025 | 22 | 27 |
| 2026 | 20 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Medical imaging apparatus, medical imaging method, medical imaging program, and medical imaging system29 Sep 2026US 12,745,977 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Wearable 3D ultrasound-based whole breast imaging system29 Sep 2026US 12,745,980 B2
- Imaging table, ultrasonography apparatus, mammography apparatus, and control program8 Sep 2026US 12,727,854 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Repeatable ultrasound8 Sep 2026US 12,727,855 B2Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
- Integrated microwave-ultrasound breast imaging system1 Sep 2026US 12,721,595 B2University of Manitoba
- Methods and systems for cancer risk assessment using tissue sound speed and stiffness8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306049 A1Aperia Medical, LLC
- Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272414 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272415 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method for Positioning a Patient, Processing Device, Magnetic Resonance Apparatus, Computer Program, and Data Storage Medium27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253219 A1Siemens Healthineers AG
- Non-invasive detection of fracture and/or fatigue of a bone13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232260 A1The Johns Hopkins University
Most cited
By later US patents
- User interface system for mammographic imager242US 6,459,925 B1Fischer Imaging Corporation · 2002
- Apparatus and method for imaging with wavefields using inverse scattering techniques198US 6,005,916 ATechniscan, Inc. · 1999
- Apparatus and method for acoustic imaging using inverse scattering techniques191US 4,662,222 A1987
- Breast cancer screening with ultrasound image overlays169US 7,103,205 B2U-Systems, Inc. · 2006
- Hybrid imaging method to monitor medical device delivery and patient support for use in the method113US 7,379,769 B2Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center · 2008