A61B 2017/320078
Tissue manipulating surface
Official title: {Tissue manipulating surface}
A61B2017/320078 (Tissue manipulating surface) appears on 259 US grants and 320 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 259
- Published applications
- 320
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 419
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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