A61B 18/085
Forceps, scissors
Official title: {Forceps, scissors}
A61B18/085 (Forceps, scissors) appears on 523 US grants and 733 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 523
- Published applications
- 733
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 658
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 30 | 34 |
| 2024 | 31 | 35 |
| 2025 | 37 | 25 |
| 2026 | 15 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Combined dissecting, cauterizing, and stapling device2,224US 6,821,273 B2Starion Instruments Corporation · 2004
- Power control arrangements for surgical instruments and batteries2,057US 8,632,525 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014