A61B 2090/036
Abutting on tissue or skin
Official title: {abutting on tissue or skin}
A61B2090/036 (Abutting on tissue or skin) appears on 944 US grants and 1,198 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 944
- Published applications
- 1,198
- Assignees
- 478
- Inventors
- 1,845
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 15 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 4 |
| 2002 | 4 | 11 |
| 2003 | 17 | 15 |
| 2004 | 14 | 32 |
| 2005 | 8 | 30 |
| 2006 | 8 | 26 |
| 2007 | 16 | 37 |
| 2008 | 12 | 39 |
| 2009 | 12 | 36 |
| 2010 | 28 | 45 |
| 2011 | 21 | 29 |
| 2012 | 29 | 34 |
| 2013 | 34 | 48 |
| 2014 | 35 | 46 |
| 2015 | 32 | 48 |
| 2016 | 28 | 46 |
| 2017 | 44 | 76 |
| 2018 | 36 | 72 |
| 2019 | 61 | 76 |
| 2020 | 82 | 86 |
| 2021 | 48 | 74 |
| 2022 | 65 | 63 |
| 2023 | 57 | 74 |
| 2024 | 63 | 67 |
| 2025 | 57 | 57 |
| 2026 | 32 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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