A61H 39/002
Devices for locating or stimulating specific reflex points of the body for
Official title: {Using electric currents (electrotherapy A61N1/32)}
A61H39/002 (Devices for locating or stimulating specific reflex points of the body for) appears on 374 US grants and 503 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61H- Granted patents
- 374
- Published applications
- 503
- Assignees
- 218
- Inventors
- 640
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 3 | 9 |
| 2004 | 5 | 13 |
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| 2006 | 7 | 26 |
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| 2008 | 4 | 19 |
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| 2020 | 19 | 27 |
| 2021 | 23 | 30 |
| 2022 | 19 | 26 |
| 2023 | 20 | 25 |
| 2024 | 13 | 19 |
| 2025 | 19 | 16 |
| 2026 | 9 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Device, body, method and system for health-care25 Aug 2026US 12,714,642 B2Tao Mining Co., Ltd.
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device with thermal modalities for stimulating acupoints of a user25 Aug 2026US 12,714,850 B2The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Massage device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,852 B2
- Fluid-actuated haptic device and methods for using thereof7 Jul 2026US 12,673,000 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Electroacoustic stimulation device and method23 Jun 2026US 12,661,301 B2
- Electric scraping massage device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272773 A1Apr Co., Ltd.
- Acupuncture instrument with acupoint detection and artificial intelligence17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272774 A1Inno-Health Technology Co., Ltd.
- Scrapping massage device with diagnostic function and scrapping massage method using same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248678 A1Apr Co., Ltd.
- Compression garments and methods of manufacture6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224438 A1QoLIFY LLC
- Pressure applying device2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183191 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Auricular electrical stimulator334US 5,514,175 ACerebral Stimulation, Inc. · 1996
- Transcutaneous nerve stimulation device and method for using same300US 5,458,625 A1995
- Method and apparatus for skin absorption enhancement and transdermal drug delivery199US 7,083,580 B2Mattioli Engineering Ltd. · 2006
- Nausea control device197US 4,981,146 AMaven Labs, Inc. · 1991
- Therapeutic and diagnostic needling device and method170US 6,808,499 B1University of Vermont · 2004