A61B 2017/0437
The barbs being resilient or spring-like
Official title: {the barbs being resilient or spring-like}
A61B2017/0437 (The barbs being resilient or spring-like) appears on 411 US grants and 539 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 539
- Assignees
- 184
- Inventors
- 773
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 12 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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