A61C 9/0086
Acoustic means or methods
Official title: {Acoustic means or methods}
A61C9/0086 (Acoustic means or methods) appears on 48 US grants and 64 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
- 48
- Published applications
- 64
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 123
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for wireless portable ultrasound imaging6 Jan 2026US 12,514,550 B2DenSonics Imaging Inc.
- Intraoral 3D scanning with automatic charting11 Nov 2025US 12,465,464 B2Dental Imaging Technologies Corporation
- Ultrasonic probe for intraoral soft tissue imaging11 Nov 2025US 12,465,468 B2
- Systems for guiding dental imaging17 Jun 2025US 12,329,560 B2Align Technology, Inc.
- Using a prior three-dimensional model to faciliate intraoral scanning22 Apr 2025US 12,283,016 B2Align Technology, Inc.
- Intraoral tomographic scanning apparatus4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151215 A1Dental Imaging Technologies Corporation
- Photoacoustic imaging for noninvasive periodontal probing depth measurements2 Oct 2025US 2025/0302313 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Systems and methods for guiding dental imaging4 Sep 2025US 2025/0275737 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Method for scanning material using an ultrasonic imaging probe10 Jul 2025US 2025/0221683 A1
- Intraoral scanning using multiple modalities15 May 2025US 2025/0157168 A1Align Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Unified workstation for virtual craniofacial diagnosis, treatment planning and therapeutics264US 7,234,937 B2OraMetrix, Inc. · 2007
- Ultrasonic probe having dual-motion transducer147US 4,637,256 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1987
- Intraoral scanning using ultrasound and optical scan data86US 10,453,269 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2019
- Method of mapping internal 3-D structure of dental formations64US 6,638,219 B1Asch-Klaassen Sonics, Inc. · 2003
- Visual feedback of 3D scan parameters64US 7,813,591 B23M Innovative Properties Company · 2010