A61B 5/4222
Evaluating particular parts
Official title: {Evaluating particular parts, e.g. particular organs}
A61B5/4222 (Evaluating particular parts) appears on 1,066 US grants and 1,667 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,066
- Published applications
- 1,667
- Assignees
- 733
- Inventors
- 3,040
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 85 | 93 |
| 2025 | 65 | 82 |
| 2026 | 40 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
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