A61B 8/4466
Involving deflection of the probe
Official title: {involving deflection of the probe}
A61B8/4466 (Involving deflection of the probe) appears on 163 US grants and 219 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 219
- Assignees
- 119
- Inventors
- 446
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Devices, systems, and methods for transvaginal, ultrasound guided hysteroscopic surgical procedures28 Jul 2026US 12,690,839 B2Covidien LP
- Ultrasound catheter and ultrasound catheter system16 Jun 2026US 12,653,500 B2Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Mechanically-decoupled actuation for robotic catheter system31 Mar 2026US 12,589,221 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture3 Mar 2026US 12,564,703 B2NuVera Medical, Inc.
- Temperature insensitive backing structure for intraluminal imaging devices24 Feb 2026US 12,558,067 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191503 A1NuVera Medical, Inc.
- Ultrasound probe2 Jul 2026US 2026/0182962 A1Wuhan United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166277 A1NuVera Medical, Inc.
- Medical introducer sheath comprising an ultrasonic imaging probe11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157772 A1Vermon
- Steerable ultrasound attachment for endoscope16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102055 A1EndoSound, Inc.
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
- Robotic catheter system421US 7,974,681 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2011
- Ultrasonic endoscopic probe354US 6,210,337 B1ATL Ultrasound, Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for three-dimensional translumenal ultrasonic imaging337US 5,398,691 AUniversity of Washington · 1995