G03B 15/14
Special procedures for taking photographs: for taking photographs during medical operations
Official title: for taking photographs during medical operations
G03B15/14 (Special procedures for taking photographs: for taking photographs during medical operations) appears on 127 US grants and 148 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 127
- Published applications
- 148
- Assignees
- 98
- Inventors
- 351
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 10 | 12 |
| 2023 | 9 | 15 |
| 2024 | 10 | 13 |
| 2025 | 11 | 6 |
| 2026 | 5 | 3 |
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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- Variable magnification apparatus having illumination compensating ability41US 4,265,518 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1981
- Optical system which allows coincident viewing, illuminating and photographing33US 5,078,469 ALuxtec Corporation · 1992
- Adapter for optically coupling a photographic camera with a viewing device30US 4,157,216 APolaroid Corporation · 1979