A61B 17/0644
Penetrating the tissue, deformable to closed position
Official title: {penetrating the tissue, deformable to closed position}
A61B17/0644 (Penetrating the tissue, deformable to closed position) appears on 2,015 US grants and 2,504 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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