A61B 90/13
Guided by light
Official title: guided by light, e.g. laser pointers
A61B90/13 (Guided by light) appears on 338 US grants and 411 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 338
- Published applications
- 411
- Assignees
- 192
- Inventors
- 718
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 8 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 5 | 4 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 | 10 |
| 2012 | 9 | 19 |
| 2013 | 5 | 15 |
| 2014 | 17 | 25 |
| 2015 | 16 | 25 |
| 2016 | 9 | 20 |
| 2017 | 13 | 28 |
| 2018 | 20 | 32 |
| 2019 | 24 | 32 |
| 2020 | 23 | 40 |
| 2021 | 27 | 23 |
| 2022 | 38 | 25 |
| 2023 | 23 | 35 |
| 2024 | 21 | 23 |
| 2025 | 21 | 15 |
| 2026 | 11 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry (“REIMS”) and desorption electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (“DESI-MS”) analysis of swabs and biopsy samples2 Jun 2026US 12,646,702 B2Micromass UK Limited
- RF bipolar steam generation ablation device26 May 2026US 12,636,021 B2Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
- Methods and devices to treat nasal airways26 May 2026US 12,636,058 B2Aerin Medical Inc.
- Systems, methods, and apparatuses for tibial mechanical axis digitization5 May 2026US 12,616,486 B2Orthosoft Ulc
- Systems and methods for laser alignment check in surgical guidance systems17 Mar 2026US 12,575,837 B2Wright Medical Technology, Inc.
- Rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry ("reims") and desorption electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry ("desi-ms") analysis of swabs and biopsy samples10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269206 A1Micromass UK Limited
- Laser-guidance robot for visually projecting a guide to a surgery plan, projection method, and laser-guidance robot system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256541 A1
- A bone nail mounting hole positioning device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240584 A1Kaohsiung Medical University
- Augmented reality guidance for vascular procedures30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215876 A1
- Access port assembly, flow control system and trajectory determination assembly, and methods for using the aforementioned16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199050 A1B. G. Negev Technologies and Applications Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for joint replacement1,059US 9,339,226 B2OrthAlign, Inc. · 2016
- Method and system to facilitate image guided surgery763US 6,317,616 B12001
- Knee arthroplasty method480US 7,806,896 B1Marctec, LLC · 2010
- System and method of registration of three-dimensional data sets including anatomical body data469US 5,531,520 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1996
- Method for robotic arthroplasty using navigation352US 8,834,490 B2Bonutti Skeletal Innovations LLC · 2014