A61B 2017/00623
Introducing or retrieving devices therefor
Official title: {Introducing or retrieving devices therefor}
A61B2017/00623 (Introducing or retrieving devices therefor) appears on 939 US grants and 1,371 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 939
- Published applications
- 1,371
- Assignees
- 341
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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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- Aperture occlusion device1,293US 5,108,420 ATemple University · 1992
- Fixation device delivery catheter, systems and methods of use1,218US 7,226,467 B2Evalve, Inc. · 2007