A61B 5/407
Evaluating the spinal cord
Official title: {Evaluating the spinal cord (for locating the epidural space A61B5/4896)}
A61B5/407 (Evaluating the spinal cord) appears on 244 US grants and 374 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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