A61B 8/461
Displaying means of special interest
Official title: {Displaying means of special interest}
A61B8/461 (Displaying means of special interest) appears on 4,131 US grants and 6,506 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 6,506
- Assignees
- 1,005
- Inventors
- 7,092
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 334 | 358 |
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 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
- Drive unit, diagnostic imaging apparatus, and operation method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306058 A1Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Classification display method of ultrasound data and ultrasound imaging system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306061 A1Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
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