A61B 5/1079
Using optical or photographic means
Official title: {using optical or photographic means}
A61B5/1079 (Using optical or photographic means) appears on 858 US grants and 1,323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 858
- Published applications
- 1,323
- Assignees
- 660
- Inventors
- 2,504
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2013 | 10 | 49 |
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| 2017 | 47 | 101 |
| 2018 | 44 | 91 |
| 2019 | 72 | 111 |
| 2020 | 92 | 108 |
| 2021 | 73 | 104 |
| 2022 | 79 | 104 |
| 2023 | 83 | 109 |
| 2024 | 77 | 104 |
| 2025 | 93 | 81 |
| 2026 | 41 | 51 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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