A61B 2017/00672
Locating means therefor
Official title: {Locating means therefor, e.g. bleed back lumen}
A61B2017/00672 (Locating means therefor) appears on 373 US grants and 413 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 373
- Published applications
- 413
- Assignees
- 123
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
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