A61B 2018/1405
Electrodes having a specific shape
Official title: {Electrodes having a specific shape}
A61B2018/1405 (Electrodes having a specific shape) appears on 5,641 US grants and 7,089 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 5,641
- Published applications
- 7,089
- Assignees
- 1,310
- Inventors
- 6,763
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 314 | 351 |
| 2025 | 267 | 320 |
| 2026 | 183 | 229 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61B 2018/1425NeedleIndexing code2,359
- A61B 2018/1407LoopIndexing code1,359
- A61B 2018/1412BladeIndexing code1,129
- A61B 2018/1435SpiralIndexing code891
- A61B 2018/144WireIndexing code557
- A61B 2018/1422HookIndexing code211
- A61B 2018/142At least partly surrounding the targetIndexing code193
- A61B 2018/1417BallIndexing code168
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