A61C 17/14
Dental appliances for receiving spittle, with or without rinsing means therefor
Official title: Dental appliances for receiving spittle, with or without rinsing means therefor, e.g. dental basins, spittoons, cuspidors
A61C17/14 (Dental appliances for receiving spittle, with or without rinsing means therefor) appears on 34 US grants and 52 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
- 34
- Published applications
- 52
- Assignees
- 21
- Inventors
- 68
- Latest grant
- 20 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Transportable autonomous dental unit25 Nov 2025US 12,478,535 B2
- Oral irrigator handle with hose connector fittings28 Jan 2025US 12,207,983 B2Water Pik, Inc.
- Snap-on cap for container17 Sep 2024US 12,091,218 B2
- Oral irrigator handle with hose connector fittings9 May 2023US 11,642,203 B2Water Pik, Inc.
- Catch16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102235 A1
- Workbench control assembly, workbench waterway integrated system and dental nurse workbench11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375336 A1Guangdong JINME Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Snap-On Cap For Container5 Jun 2025US 2025/0178793 A1
- Portable container for a disposable cup7 Nov 2024US 2024/0366478 A1
- Transportable autonomous dental unit27 Jun 2024US 2024/0207123 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Shutoff valve mechanism for the oral evacuator of a dental unit135US 5,267,586 APlanmeca Oy · 1993
- Bone graft injection methods17US 9,730,773 B2Maxillent Ltd. · 2017
- Thin-film splash guard for a dental cuspidor15US 8,393,022 B22013
- Vacuum cuspidor12US 4,307,475 AA-dec, Inc. · 1981
- Methods, devices, systems, assemblies, and kits for tissue retraction in an oral cavity9US 9,387,054 B2Ultradent Products, Inc. · 2016