A61B 2017/22028
Arrays
Official title: {arrays, e.g. phased arrays}
A61B2017/22028 (Arrays) appears on 123 US grants and 128 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 123
- Published applications
- 128
- Assignees
- 99
- Inventors
- 293
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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