A61B 18/203
Applying laser energy to the outside of the body
Official title: {applying laser energy to the outside of the body}
A61B18/203 (Applying laser energy to the outside of the body) appears on 1,431 US grants and 1,956 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,431
- Published applications
- 1,956
- Assignees
- 589
- Inventors
- 2,168
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 32 | 49 |
| 2003 | 55 | 42 |
| 2004 | 29 | 73 |
| 2005 | 21 | 70 |
| 2006 | 35 | 65 |
| 2007 | 31 | 92 |
| 2008 | 25 | 113 |
| 2009 | 17 | 90 |
| 2010 | 28 | 93 |
| 2011 | 27 | 74 |
| 2012 | 50 | 84 |
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| 2019 | 71 | 101 |
| 2020 | 75 | 95 |
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| 2022 | 64 | 83 |
| 2023 | 58 | 74 |
| 2024 | 70 | 79 |
| 2025 | 71 | 72 |
| 2026 | 29 | 32 |
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