A61B 2017/07242
Achieving different staple heights during the same shot
Official title: {achieving different staple heights during the same shot, e.g. using an anvil anvil having different heights or staples of different sizes}
A61B2017/07242 (Achieving different staple heights during the same shot) appears on 724 US grants and 861 published applications in this corpus.
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