A61B 2017/2918
Flexible handles
Official title: {flexible handles}
A61B2017/2918 (Flexible handles) appears on 105 US grants and 123 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 105
- Published applications
- 123
- Assignees
- 68
- Inventors
- 194
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 3 |
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| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
- Endoscopic surgical gripping instrument with universal joint jaw coupler1,413US 5,752,973 AArchimedes Surgical, Inc. · 1998
- Surgical instruments and method for applying progressive intracorporeal traction1,370US 5,549,627 A1996
- Bipolar surgical instruments567US 5,527,313 AUnited States Surgical Corporation · 1996
- Multimodality probe with extendable bipolar electrodes551US 5,401,272 AEnvision Surgical Systems, Inc. · 1995
- Rotational surgical instrument360US 4,760,848 A1988