A61B 2018/1495
Electrodes being detachable from a support structure
Official title: {Electrodes being detachable from a support structure}
A61B2018/1495 (Electrodes being detachable from a support structure) appears on 364 US grants and 486 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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