A61B 2017/06028
By means of a cylindrical longitudinal blind bore machined at the suture-receiving
Official title: {by means of a cylindrical longitudinal blind bore machined at the suture-receiving end of the needle, e.g. opposite to needle tip}
A61B2017/06028 (By means of a cylindrical longitudinal blind bore machined at the suture-receiving) appears on 328 US grants and 345 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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