A61B 5/6838
Clamps or clips
Official title: {Clamps or clips}
A61B5/6838 (Clamps or clips) appears on 1,309 US grants and 1,494 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,309
- Published applications
- 1,494
- Assignees
- 510
- Inventors
- 1,938
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 36 | 45 |
| 2004 | 36 | 37 |
| 2005 | 27 | 42 |
| 2006 | 20 | 64 |
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| 2022 | 46 | 39 |
| 2023 | 35 | 50 |
| 2024 | 30 | 44 |
| 2025 | 41 | 25 |
| 2026 | 20 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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