A61F 2002/4635
Using minimally invasive surgery
Official title: {using minimally invasive surgery}
A61F2002/4635 (Using minimally invasive surgery) appears on 951 US grants and 1,189 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 951
- Published applications
- 1,189
- Assignees
- 270
- Inventors
- 1,120
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 30 | 21 |
| 2026 | 23 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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