A61B 2090/373
Using light
Official title: {using light, e.g. by using optical scanners}
A61B2090/373 (Using light) appears on 1,576 US grants and 2,322 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 2,322
- Assignees
- 654
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 176 | 172 |
| 2026 | 100 | 93 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Ophthalmic injection robot and system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306295 A1Alcon Inc.
- Systems and methods for implanting neural electrodes1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294563 A1William Marsh Rice University
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