A61B 17/06123
Flat cylinders
Official title: {Flat cylinders, e.g. including an inner reel}
A61B17/06123 (Flat cylinders) appears on 130 US grants and 124 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 130
- Published applications
- 124
- Assignees
- 63
- Inventors
- 208
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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| 2020 | 11 | 9 |
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| 2022 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11 |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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