A61B 90/96
Using barcodes
Official title: using barcodes
A61B90/96 (Using barcodes) appears on 936 US grants and 1,413 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 936
- Published applications
- 1,413
- Assignees
- 405
- Inventors
- 1,797
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 2 | 5 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 12 |
| 2006 | 2 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 | 14 |
| 2008 | 3 | 26 |
| 2009 | 6 | 19 |
| 2010 | 7 | 16 |
| 2011 | 7 | 25 |
| 2012 | 12 | 17 |
| 2013 | 14 | 33 |
| 2014 | 14 | 17 |
| 2015 | 22 | 61 |
| 2016 | 32 | 60 |
| 2017 | 39 | 76 |
| 2018 | 40 | 70 |
| 2019 | 47 | 84 |
| 2020 | 54 | 99 |
| 2021 | 73 | 141 |
| 2022 | 107 | 151 |
| 2023 | 112 | 151 |
| 2024 | 128 | 126 |
| 2025 | 136 | 121 |
| 2026 | 59 | 78 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Interactive displays1,824US 9,283,054 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
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- Surgical instrument comprising a sensor system1,597US 9,913,642 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2018
- Multiple sensors with one sensor affecting a second sensor's output or interpretation1,559US 9,757,128 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
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