A61B 2017/00424
Ergonomic
Official title: {ergonomic, e.g. fitting in fist}
A61B2017/00424 (Ergonomic) appears on 999 US grants and 1,336 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 999
- Published applications
- 1,336
- Assignees
- 395
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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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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Pneumatic surgical instrument for the distribution and placement of connecting or fastening means1,688US 6,171,330 B2Sofradim Production · 2001
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