A61F 2013/8491
Including test methods
Official title: {including test methods}
A61F2013/8491 (Including test methods) appears on 141 US grants and 83 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 141
- Published applications
- 83
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 359
- Latest grant
- 27 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Pressure sensing device for use with a compression bandage27 Jan 2026US 12,533,267 B2University of Galway
- Absorbent structure9 Dec 2025US 12,491,123 B2The Procter & Gamble Company
- Determining diaper loading using color detection or activity state4 Nov 2025US 12,458,543 B2Verily Life Sciences LLC
- Water absorbent resin particles, absorbent, absorbent article and liquid suction power measurement method15 Apr 2025US 12,274,999 B2Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
- Fluid loss estimation of medical items8 Apr 2025US 12,268,477 B2Stryker Corporation
- Fluid loss estimation based on weight of medical items22 May 2025US 2025/0160656 A1Stryker Corporation
- Diagnostic arrangement for sanitary napkin to detect and analyze analytes in menstrual blood1 May 2025US 2025/0134736 A1Pes University
- Absorbent article comprising a carded calendered nonwoven14 Nov 2024US 2024/0374778 A1The Procter & Gamble Company
- Carded calendered nonwovens14 Nov 2024US 2024/0376649 A1The Procter & Gamble Company
- Absorbent article and method for making an absorbent article10 Oct 2024US 2024/0335336 A1The Procter & Gamble Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Thin-unit-wet absorbent foam materials for aqueous body fluids and process for making same1,130US 5,387,207 AThe Procter & Gamble Company · 1995
- Absorbent article having a hydrophobic transport layer802US 4,798,603 AKimberly-Clark Corporation · 1989
- High efficiency absorbent articles for incontinence management776US 5,147,345 AThe Procter & Gamble Company · 1992
- Absorbent members for body fluids having good wet integrity and relatively high concentrations of hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer having high porosity637US 5,562,646 AThe Proctor & Gamble Company · 1996
- Absorbent members for body fluids having good wet integrity and relatively high concentrations of hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer632US 5,599,335 AThe Procter & Gamble Company · 1997