A61B 2017/320032
Details of the rotating or oscillating shaft
Official title: {Details of the rotating or oscillating shaft, e.g. using a flexible shaft}
A61B2017/320032 (Details of the rotating or oscillating shaft) appears on 466 US grants and 610 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Flexible drive member1,972US 9,204,879 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2015
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- Surgical instrument and method1,772US 7,699,846 B2Gyrus Ent, L.L.C. · 2010
- Flexible shaft1,751US 6,053,922 A2000
- Full thickness resection device control handle1,749US 6,821,282 B2SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2004