A61B 8/4433
Involving a docking unit
Official title: {involving a docking unit}
A61B8/4433 (Involving a docking unit) appears on 133 US grants and 226 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 133
- Published applications
- 226
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 408
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 13 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Displaying data based on machine-reading of an ultrasound device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272417 A1Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Portable ultrasound unit and docking station203US 6,980,419 B2Zonare Medical Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Ultrasound diagnostic instrument having software in detachable scanhead184US 6,364,839 B1SonoSite, Inc. · 2002
- Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system and method for transferring ultrasound examination data to a portable computing device107US 6,440,072 B1Acuson Corporation · 2002
- Mobile ultrasound diagnostic instrument and docking stand83US 6,447,451 B1SonoSite, Inc. · 2002
- Charging station for cordless ultrasound cart64US 8,398,408 B1SonoSite, Inc. · 2013