A61B 2017/00438
Connectable to a finger
Official title: {connectable to a finger}
A61B2017/00438 (Connectable to a finger) appears on 310 US grants and 412 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 310
- Published applications
- 412
- Assignees
- 162
- Inventors
- 636
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 13 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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