A61B 90/98
Using electromagnetic means
Official title: using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
A61B90/98 (Using electromagnetic means) appears on 2,782 US grants and 3,853 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 2,782
- Published applications
- 3,853
- Assignees
- 859
- Inventors
- 4,308
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 143 | 128 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Identification device for surgical instrument3,012US 5,529,235 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1996
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