A61B 10/0233
Pointed or sharp biopsy instruments
Official title: {Pointed or sharp biopsy instruments}
A61B10/0233 (Pointed or sharp biopsy instruments) appears on 3,760 US grants and 4,689 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 3,760
- Published applications
- 4,689
- Assignees
- 1,384
- Inventors
- 6,284
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 69 | 140 |
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| 2023 | 158 | 172 |
| 2024 | 146 | 185 |
| 2025 | 161 | 149 |
| 2026 | 123 | 96 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Mammography apparatus, control device, and program6 Oct 2026US 12,751,700 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Apparati, instruments, systems and methods of use and assembly6 Oct 2026US 12,751,701 B2Stryker Corporation
- Biopsy device and specimen collection method6 Oct 2026US 12,751,702 B2Olympus Corporation
- Surgical suction device that uses positive pressure gas29 Sep 2026US 12,745,935 B2Conmed Corporation
- Biopsy arrangement29 Sep 2026US 12,745,991 B2Xaga Surgical AB
- Self-contained shave biopsy collection and storage device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306079 A1ClickPath Biopsy Solutions, Inc.
- A device for extracting a material8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306081 A1Stichting Radboud universitair medisch centrum
- Sheaths for needle delivery8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306752 A1GYRUS ACMI INC. (d.b.a.Olympus Surgical Technologies America)
- Mri-compatible biopsy robot1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294405 A1Promaxo, Inc.
- Rooter with selective manual and motorized operation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294406 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic arm DLUs for performing surgical tasks2,751US 6,231,565 B1United States Surgical Corporation · 2001
- Electro-mechanical surgical device2,708US 7,032,798 B2Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2006
- Electro-mechanical surgical device2,468US 6,846,308 B2Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2005
- Electro-mechanical surgical device2,366US 6,793,652 B1Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2004
- Electro-mechanical surgical device2,324US 6,981,941 B2Power Medical Interventions, Inc. · 2006