A61C 17/12
Control devices
Official title: Control devices, e.g. for suction
A61C17/12 (Control devices) appears on 101 US grants and 106 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Suction apparatus and saliva ejector2 Jun 2026US 12,642,634 B1
- Tooth root canal irrigation assembly for cleaning tooth root canals14 Apr 2026US 12,599,465 B2
- Toothbrush suction apparatus and method24 Mar 2026US 12,582,226 B2Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Connector for a dental valve13 Jan 2026US 12,521,216 B2Stoma Ventures, LLC
- Disposable dental aerosol device14 Oct 2025US 12,440,319 B2Stoma Ventures, LLC
- Workbench control assembly, workbench waterway integrated system and dental nurse workbench11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375336 A1Guangdong JINME Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Intraoral Device for Isolation and Fluid Evacuation18 Sep 2025US 2025/0288400 A1Ascentcare Dental Products, Inc.
- System and method for cleaning space between fixed dentures and gum lines14 Aug 2025US 2025/0255702 A1
- Handpiece assembly and dental unit chair including the same17 Jul 2025US 2025/0228727 A1Dentium Co., Ltd.
- Suction apparatus and saliva ejector3 Jul 2025US 2025/0213338 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Shutoff valve mechanism for the oral evacuator of a dental unit135US 5,267,586 APlanmeca Oy · 1993
- Dental high volume evacuation system58US 4,580,978 A1986
- Intraoral device58US 6,974,321 B2Innerlite, Inc. · 2005
- Dental vacuum pump system51US 5,282,744 A1994
- Low-noise vacuum release suction device and controllable aspirator using same45US 7,306,577 B22007