G01S 15/8979
Combined doppler and pulse-echo imaging systems
Official title: {Combined Doppler and pulse-echo imaging systems}
G01S15/8979 (Combined doppler and pulse-echo imaging systems) appears on 1,249 US grants and 973 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
- 1,249
- Published applications
- 973
- Assignees
- 305
- Inventors
- 1,731
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 35 | 26 |
| 2025 | 37 | 23 |
| 2026 | 15 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and method of operating the same1 Sep 2026US 12,721,599 B2Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.
- Physiology sensing intraluminal device with index for spectral flow assessment, and associated devices, systems, and methods16 Jun 2026US 12,653,499 B2Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- Tablet ultrasound system16 Jun 2026US 12,653,504 B2TeraTech Corporation
- Ultrasound time-series data processing device and ultrasound time-series data processing program16 Jun 2026US 12,657,700 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Tablet ultrasound system26 May 2026US 12,635,979 B2TeraTech Corporation
- Spread spectrum coded waveforms in ultrasound diagnostics10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263048 A1Decision Sciences International Corporation
- Tablet ultrasound system30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215758 A1TeraTech Corporation
- Methods and systems for automated center positioning for radial velocity mapping in vector contrast imaging14 May 2026US 2026/0130649 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Determining material stiffness using multiple aperture ultrasound7 May 2026US 2026/0123917 A1Maui Imaging, Inc.
- In vivo fluid flow sensor30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114838 A1Canary Medical Switzerland AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multiple ultrasound image registration system, method and transducer410US 6,014,473 AAcuson Corporation · 2000
- Hand held ultrasonic diagnostic instrument311US 5,722,412 AAdvanced Technology Laboratories, Inc. · 1998
- Miniaturized ultrasound apparatus and method299US 6,251,073 B1Novasonics, Inc. · 2001
- Ultrasonic contrast agents for color Doppler imaging292US 5,425,366 ASchering Corporation · 1995
- Apparatus and method for detecting blood flow in intravascular ultrasonic imaging289US 5,453,575 AEndosonics Corporation · 1995