A61B 2090/363
Use of fiducial points
Official title: {Use of fiducial points}
A61B2090/363 (Use of fiducial points) appears on 952 US grants and 1,137 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 952
- Published applications
- 1,137
- Assignees
- 437
- Inventors
- 1,825
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Video-based navigation for guiding a tool towards a target10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263161 A1Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
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