A61B 2017/320741
For stripping the intima or the internal plaque from a blood vessel
Official title: {for stripping the intima or the internal plaque from a blood vessel, e.g. for endarterectomy}
A61B2017/320741 (For stripping the intima or the internal plaque from a blood vessel) appears on 224 US grants and 254 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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