A61B 1/00167
Details of optical fibre bundles
Official title: {Details of optical fibre bundles, e.g. shape or fibre distribution}
A61B1/00167 (Details of optical fibre bundles) appears on 285 US grants and 397 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 397
- Assignees
- 186
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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