A61B 2090/506
Using a parallelogram linkage
Official title: {using a parallelogram linkage, e.g. panthograph}
A61B2090/506 (Using a parallelogram linkage) appears on 358 US grants and 409 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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