A46B 17/065
Sterilising brushes
Official title: {Sterilising brushes; products integral with the brush for sterilising, e.g. tablets, rinse, disinfectant}
A46B17/065 (Sterilising brushes) appears on 72 US grants and 100 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A46B- Granted patents
- 72
- Published applications
- 100
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 160
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 7 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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