A61F 2002/4677
Using a guide wire
Official title: {using a guide wire}
A61F2002/4677 (Using a guide wire) appears on 421 US grants and 567 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 421
- Published applications
- 567
- Assignees
- 146
- Inventors
- 614
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 11 | 28 |
| 2023 | 14 | 30 |
| 2024 | 22 | 35 |
| 2025 | 27 | 25 |
| 2026 | 23 | 22 |
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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