A61B 8/4455
Features of the external shape of the probe
Official title: {Features of the external shape of the probe, e.g. ergonomic aspects}
A61B8/4455 (Features of the external shape of the probe) appears on 658 US grants and 1,027 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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