A61N 1/37264
Changing the program
Official title: {Changing the program; Upgrading firmware}
A61N1/37264 (Changing the program) appears on 732 US grants and 889 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61N- Granted patents
- 732
- Published applications
- 889
- Assignees
- 143
- Inventors
- 995
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 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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