A61B 1/00006
Of control signals
Official title: {of control signals}
A61B1/00006 (Of control signals) appears on 1,767 US grants and 2,665 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,767
- Published applications
- 2,665
- Assignees
- 444
- Inventors
- 2,919
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 173 | 222 |
| 2026 | 113 | 111 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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