A61B 2018/00196
Reciprocating lengthwise
Official title: {reciprocating lengthwise}
A61B2018/00196 (Reciprocating lengthwise) appears on 1,231 US grants and 1,291 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 415
- Inventors
- 1,907
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 44 | 36 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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