A61B 17/24
Surgical instruments, devices or methods: for use in the oral cavity, larynx
Official title: for use in the oral cavity, larynx, bronchial passages or nose (for medical inspection of cavities or tubes in the body A61B1/00); Tongue scrapers
A61B17/24 (Surgical instruments, devices or methods: for use in the oral cavity, larynx) appears on 1,551 US grants and 1,901 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,551
- Published applications
- 1,901
- Assignees
- 431
- Inventors
- 1,997
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 18 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 37 | 0 |
| 2000 | 25 | 0 |
| 2001 | 20 | 6 |
| 2002 | 15 | 16 |
| 2003 | 13 | 16 |
| 2004 | 11 | 22 |
| 2005 | 7 | 29 |
| 2006 | 8 | 49 |
| 2007 | 9 | 38 |
| 2008 | 13 | 77 |
| 2009 | 9 | 54 |
| 2010 | 28 | 54 |
| 2011 | 33 | 63 |
| 2012 | 41 | 64 |
| 2013 | 48 | 90 |
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| 2015 | 67 | 96 |
| 2016 | 94 | 127 |
| 2017 | 87 | 131 |
| 2018 | 83 | 117 |
| 2019 | 102 | 158 |
| 2020 | 114 | 140 |
| 2021 | 108 | 119 |
| 2022 | 71 | 77 |
| 2023 | 106 | 86 |
| 2024 | 87 | 90 |
| 2025 | 62 | 52 |
| 2026 | 34 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Device for retrieval of foreign objects from bodily cavities8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306300 A1Mor Research Applications Ltd.
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- Method for ablating interior sections of the tongue1,673US 5,800,379 ASommus Medical Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Powered surgical apparatus, method of manufacturing powered surgical apparatus, and method of using powered surgical apparatus1,588US 7,247,161 B2Gyrus Ent, L.L.C. · 2007
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