A61B 2018/00023
Closed, i.e. without wound contact by the fluid
Official title: {closed, i.e. without wound contact by the fluid}
A61B2018/00023 (Closed, i.e. without wound contact by the fluid) appears on 1,650 US grants and 2,215 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,650
- Published applications
- 2,215
- Assignees
- 558
- Inventors
- 2,393
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 34 | 47 |
| 2005 | 26 | 50 |
| 2006 | 22 | 38 |
| 2007 | 30 | 64 |
| 2008 | 20 | 61 |
| 2009 | 16 | 66 |
| 2010 | 21 | 56 |
| 2011 | 20 | 88 |
| 2012 | 46 | 116 |
| 2013 | 63 | 84 |
| 2014 | 72 | 132 |
| 2015 | 122 | 117 |
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| 2017 | 83 | 120 |
| 2018 | 86 | 116 |
| 2019 | 99 | 111 |
| 2020 | 91 | 120 |
| 2021 | 81 | 110 |
| 2022 | 75 | 77 |
| 2023 | 77 | 107 |
| 2024 | 85 | 112 |
| 2025 | 78 | 97 |
| 2026 | 51 | 74 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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