A61B 17/1695
Trepans or craniotomes, i.e. specially adapted for drilling thin bones such as
Official title: {Trepans or craniotomes, i.e. specially adapted for drilling thin bones such as the skull}
A61B17/1695 (Trepans or craniotomes, i.e. specially adapted for drilling thin bones such as) appears on 215 US grants and 249 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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