A61B 8/488
Involving doppler signals
Official title: {involving Doppler signals}
A61B8/488 (Involving doppler signals) appears on 2,004 US grants and 3,072 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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