A61B 2090/401
Using air flow
Official title: {using air flow}
A61B2090/401 (Using air flow) appears on 137 US grants and 198 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 137
- Published applications
- 198
- Assignees
- 94
- Inventors
- 353
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2016 | 2 | 5 |
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| 2019 | 3 | 7 |
| 2020 | 6 | 5 |
| 2021 | 8 | 48 |
| 2022 | 12 | 30 |
| 2023 | 9 | 26 |
| 2024 | 10 | 19 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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