Trends in patent filing for artificial intelligence-assisted medical technologies

Lexology September 3, 2025
Smart & Biggar

Medical technologies incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) are an emerging area of innovation with the potential to transform healthcare. Employing techniques such as machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing,¹ AI enables machine-based systems that can make predictions, recommendations or decisions that influence real or virtual environments based on a given set of objectives.² For example, AI-based medical systems can collect medical data, analyze medical data and assist in medical treatment, or provide informed recommendations or decisions.³ According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some key areas in which AI are applied in medical devices include: ⁴

• Image acquisition and processing
• Diagnosis, prognosis, and risk assessment
• Early disease detection
• Identification of new patterns in human physiology and...

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