A61C 15/048
With heads removable from handle
Official title: {with heads removable from handle, e.g. interchangeable heads}
A61C15/048 (With heads removable from handle) appears on 96 US grants and 97 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
- 96
- Published applications
- 97
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 155
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Tooth cleaning device82US 5,137,039 AFocus Development Corporation, Inc. · 1992
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