A61M 1/73
Comprising sensors or indicators for physical values
Official title: {comprising sensors or indicators for physical values}
A61M1/73 (Comprising sensors or indicators for physical values) appears on 959 US grants and 1,323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 959
- Published applications
- 1,323
- Assignees
- 310
- Inventors
- 1,566
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10 |
| 2003 | 5 | 7 |
| 2004 | 4 | 11 |
| 2005 | 6 | 12 |
| 2006 | 3 | 8 |
| 2007 | 4 | 32 |
| 2008 | 3 | 22 |
| 2009 | 10 | 20 |
| 2010 | 28 | 52 |
| 2011 | 16 | 40 |
| 2012 | 19 | 32 |
| 2013 | 31 | 57 |
| 2014 | 44 | 64 |
| 2015 | 45 | 59 |
| 2016 | 43 | 58 |
| 2017 | 45 | 86 |
| 2018 | 52 | 69 |
| 2019 | 54 | 120 |
| 2020 | 74 | 95 |
| 2021 | 62 | 110 |
| 2022 | 77 | 105 |
| 2023 | 69 | 68 |
| 2024 | 89 | 86 |
| 2025 | 74 | 64 |
| 2026 | 47 | 35 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Surgical suction device that uses positive pressure gas29 Sep 2026US 12,745,935 B2Conmed Corporation
- Electrostatic discharge protection for sensors in wound therapy29 Sep 2026US 12,745,951 B2Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Occlusion detection in vacuum-based ophthalmic surgical systems22 Sep 2026US 12,741,078 B2Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Systems and methods for draining bodily fluids8 Sep 2026US 12,727,804 B2Potrero Medical, Inc.
- Chest drainage systems and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,721,940 B2Atrium Medical Corporation
- Outflow control based on connected device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306729 A1Arthrex, Inc.
- System for flushing a body cavity, a measurement unit and a smart tubing assembly for the system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295140 A1Haermonics BV
- Negative pressure wound therapy apparatus and methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273165 A1Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Uterine hemorrhage controlling system and method10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263075 A1Alydia Health, Inc.
- Portable fluid collection systems with storage and related methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248993 A1Purewick Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wearable, variable rate suction/collection device1,362US 4,710,165 A1987
- Orthopedic autotransfusion system1,140US 5,279,550 AGish Biomedical, Inc. · 1994
- Reduced pressure treatment system881US 7,846,141 B2BlueSky Medical Group Incorporated · 2010
- Wound treatment apparatus841US 6,458,109 B1Hill-Rom Services, Inc. · 2002
- Negative pressure assisted tissue treatment system717US 7,004,915 B2KCI Licensing, Inc. · 2006