A61B 1/00101
The distal tip features being detachable
Official title: {the distal tip features being detachable}
A61B1/00101 (The distal tip features being detachable) appears on 727 US grants and 1,026 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 727
- Published applications
- 1,026
- Assignees
- 318
- Inventors
- 1,629
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 8 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 16 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 6 | 11 |
| 2003 | 10 | 8 |
| 2004 | 5 | 16 |
| 2005 | 12 | 16 |
| 2006 | 8 | 11 |
| 2007 | 3 | 34 |
| 2008 | 3 | 33 |
| 2009 | 8 | 25 |
| 2010 | 9 | 23 |
| 2011 | 15 | 18 |
| 2012 | 14 | 41 |
| 2013 | 20 | 21 |
| 2014 | 31 | 39 |
| 2015 | 26 | 34 |
| 2016 | 19 | 49 |
| 2017 | 29 | 50 |
| 2018 | 30 | 63 |
| 2019 | 41 | 73 |
| 2020 | 47 | 85 |
| 2021 | 43 | 75 |
| 2022 | 60 | 76 |
| 2023 | 52 | 69 |
| 2024 | 63 | 58 |
| 2025 | 56 | 64 |
| 2026 | 30 | 33 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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