A61B 2017/00783
Valvuloplasty
Official title: {Valvuloplasty}
A61B2017/00783 (Valvuloplasty) appears on 792 US grants and 1,051 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 792
- Published applications
- 1,051
- Assignees
- 223
- Inventors
- 1,139
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 49 | 52 |
| 2026 | 25 | 42 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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