A61B 2018/1869
With an instrument interstitially inserted into the body
Official title: {with an instrument interstitially inserted into the body, e.g. needles}
A61B2018/1869 (With an instrument interstitially inserted into the body) appears on 350 US grants and 520 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 520
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- 112
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 13 | 22 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for image guided surgery616US 8,585,598 B2InnerOptic Technology, Inc. · 2013
- Energy-harvesting system, apparatus and methods398US 8,968,296 B2Covidien LP · 2015
- Tissue impedance measurement using a secondary frequency391US 8,246,615 B2Vivant Medical, Inc. · 2012
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