A61B 1/00098
Deflecting means for inserted tools
Official title: {Deflecting means for inserted tools}
A61B1/00098 (Deflecting means for inserted tools) appears on 543 US grants and 786 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 543
- Published applications
- 786
- Assignees
- 147
- Inventors
- 992
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2004 | 5 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 9 |
| 2006 | 4 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 19 |
| 2008 | 2 | 11 |
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| 2020 | 33 | 77 |
| 2021 | 23 | 56 |
| 2022 | 53 | 62 |
| 2023 | 41 | 98 |
| 2024 | 74 | 63 |
| 2025 | 56 | 59 |
| 2026 | 36 | 33 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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