A61B 2018/00285
Balloons
Official title: {Balloons}
A61B2018/00285 (Balloons) appears on 702 US grants and 1,116 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 702
- Published applications
- 1,116
- Assignees
- 289
- Inventors
- 1,339
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 28 | 45 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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