A61B 18/042
Using additional gas becoming plasma
Official title: {using additional gas becoming plasma}
A61B18/042 (Using additional gas becoming plasma) appears on 816 US grants and 1,068 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 816
- Published applications
- 1,068
- Assignees
- 291
- Inventors
- 1,111
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 72 | 62 |
| 2025 | 43 | 42 |
| 2026 | 23 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Enhanced electrosurgical apparatus2,090US 5,217,457 AValleylab, Inc. · 1993
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- Tissue resurfacing2,008US 6,723,091 B2Gyrus Medical Limited · 2004
- Electrosurgical apparatus1,927US 5,244,462 AValleylab, Inc. · 1993