A61B 6/4441
The rigid structure being a c-arm or u-arm
Official title: {the rigid structure being a C-arm or U-arm}
A61B6/4441 (The rigid structure being a c-arm or u-arm) appears on 2,454 US grants and 2,906 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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