A61C 19/004
Hand-held apparatus
Official title: {Hand-held apparatus, e.g. guns}
A61C19/004 (Hand-held apparatus) appears on 420 US grants and 462 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
- 420
- Published applications
- 462
- Assignees
- 197
- Inventors
- 643
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 9 | 13 |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 |
| 2025 | 6 | 9 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Single use, elongated tubular sleeve for medical or dental instrument24 Feb 2026US 12,558,207 B2TIDI Products, LLC
- Dental care device27 Jan 2026US 12,533,220 B2Ultradent Products, Inc.
- Dental imaging and/or curing system2 Dec 2025US 12,484,770 B2Greenmark Biomedical Inc.
- Dental care device19 Mar 2026US 2026/0076791 A1Ultradent Products, Inc.
- Dental imaging and/or curing system5 Mar 2026US 2026/0060517 A1
- Illumination System10 Jul 2025US 2025/0224096 A1Schott AG
- Handpiece assembly for laser treatment device12 Jun 2025US 2025/0186167 A1Biolase Mg LLC
- Methods and Devices for Closing a Space Between Teeth5 Jun 2025US 2025/0177106 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Rechargeable light curing apparatus1,066US 5,471,129 AIvoclar AG · 1995
- Portable light emitting apparatus with a semiconductor emitter array568US 5,634,711 A1997
- Apparatus and method for curing materials with radiation398US 6,200,134 B1Kerr Corporation · 2001
- Medical laser handpiece279US 4,826,431 AKabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho · 1989
- Apparatus for curing resin in dentistry230US 6,102,696 A2000