A61B 8/46
Ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic diagnostic devices with special arrangements for interfacing with
Official title: {Ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic diagnostic devices with special arrangements for interfacing with the operator or the patient}
A61B8/46 (Ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic diagnostic devices with special arrangements for interfacing with) appears on 4,644 US grants and 7,366 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 4,644
- Published applications
- 7,366
- Assignees
- 1,110
- Inventors
- 7,904
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 10 | 0 |
| 1993 | 5 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 14 | 0 |
| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 19 | 0 |
| 1999 | 29 | 0 |
| 2000 | 27 | 0 |
| 2001 | 31 | 7 |
| 2002 | 43 | 34 |
| 2003 | 56 | 61 |
| 2004 | 41 | 53 |
| 2005 | 20 | 73 |
| 2006 | 20 | 95 |
| 2007 | 17 | 116 |
| 2008 | 19 | 122 |
| 2009 | 38 | 143 |
| 2010 | 68 | 151 |
| 2011 | 52 | 154 |
| 2012 | 73 | 242 |
| 2013 | 112 | 309 |
| 2014 | 128 | 372 |
| 2015 | 145 | 426 |
| 2016 | 215 | 457 |
| 2017 | 193 | 484 |
| 2018 | 226 | 409 |
| 2019 | 360 | 467 |
| 2020 | 361 | 469 |
| 2021 | 317 | 503 |
| 2022 | 367 | 413 |
| 2023 | 393 | 481 |
| 2024 | 411 | 471 |
| 2025 | 407 | 450 |
| 2026 | 372 | 404 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ultrasonic needle localization6 Oct 2026US 12,751,689 B2Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
- Ultrasound imaging6 Oct 2026US 12,751,690 B2Bruin Biometrics, LLC
- Image classification-dependent user interface in ultrasound imaging6 Oct 2026US 12,751,691 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,751,694 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- AI-based ultrasound navigation system for navigating to target positions defined by text or images6 Oct 2026US 12,751,695 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- System and method for instant and automatic border detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305950 A1Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- System and method for instant and automatic border detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305951 A1Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- System for catheter-guided visualization and rendering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306050 A1GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, operation method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and operation program of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306052 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method and system for noninvasive mapping of arrhythmia using electromechanical wave imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306053 A1The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Most cited
By later US patents
- Medical positioning system1,446US 6,233,476 B1MediGuide Ltd. · 2001
- Catheters for imaging, sensing electrical potentials, and ablating tissue1,241US 5,588,432 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1996
- Apparatus and methods for low-cost intravascular ultrasound imaging and for crossing severe vascular occlusions1,025US 9,474,506 B2Volcano Corporation · 2016
- Multifaceted ultrasound transducer probe system and methods for its use595US 5,762,066 ATHS International, Inc. · 1998
- Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with universal access to diagnostic information and images552US 5,715,823 AAdvanced Technology Laboratories, Inc. · 1998