A61B 8/58
Testing, adjusting or calibrating the diagnostic device
Official title: {Testing, adjusting or calibrating the diagnostic device}
A61B8/58 (Testing, adjusting or calibrating the diagnostic device) appears on 834 US grants and 1,199 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- 437
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ultrasonic needle localization6 Oct 2026US 12,751,689 B2Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
- Ultrasound attenuation coefficient estimation using aberration compensation and reference phantoms15 Sep 2026US 12,733,913 B2Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments Co., Ltd.
- Tissue-mimicking hydrogel material8 Sep 2026US 12,728,184 B2University of Washington
- Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,721,597 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Systems, methods, and user interfaces for displaying ultrasound testing data18 Aug 2026US 12,708,349 B2Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
- Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, operation method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and operation program of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306052 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Ultrasound contrast imaging method, apparatus, system and device, and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306063 A1Sonoscape Medical Corp.
- Operator-independent ultrasound imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306065 A1The Johns Hopkins University
- Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283587 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method and system of acquisition of a signal representative of the diameter of a blood vessel24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283601 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with universal access to diagnostic information and images552US 5,715,823 AAdvanced Technology Laboratories, Inc. · 1998
- Apparatus and method for stimulating tissue growth with ultrasound321US 5,524,624 AAMEI Technologies Inc. · 1996
- Ultrasound beam alignment servo310US 5,844,140 A1998
- Health monitoring appliance300US 8,684,900 B22014
- Equipment and method for calibration and quality assurance of an ultrasonic bone anaylsis apparatus280US 5,755,228 AHologic, Inc. · 1998