A61B 1/0051
With controlled bending of insertion part
Official title: {with controlled bending of insertion part}
A61B1/0051 (With controlled bending of insertion part) appears on 3,099 US grants and 4,286 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 3,099
- Published applications
- 4,286
- Assignees
- 779
- Inventors
- 4,893
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 10 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985 | 8 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 13 | 0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 0 |
| 1989 | 29 | 0 |
| 1990 | 26 | 0 |
| 1991 | 23 | 0 |
| 1992 | 19 | 0 |
| 1993 | 19 | 0 |
| 1994 | 25 | 0 |
| 1995 | 30 | 0 |
| 1996 | 30 | 0 |
| 1997 | 25 | 0 |
| 1998 | 42 | 0 |
| 1999 | 44 | 0 |
| 2000 | 26 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 19 |
| 2002 | 32 | 56 |
| 2003 | 40 | 57 |
| 2004 | 33 | 65 |
| 2005 | 36 | 84 |
| 2006 | 35 | 76 |
| 2007 | 17 | 126 |
| 2008 | 19 | 152 |
| 2009 | 20 | 136 |
| 2010 | 56 | 125 |
| 2011 | 63 | 130 |
| 2012 | 93 | 145 |
| 2013 | 119 | 154 |
| 2014 | 146 | 155 |
| 2015 | 119 | 151 |
| 2016 | 97 | 211 |
| 2017 | 109 | 215 |
| 2018 | 132 | 231 |
| 2019 | 180 | 255 |
| 2020 | 167 | 292 |
| 2021 | 157 | 271 |
| 2022 | 202 | 233 |
| 2023 | 186 | 295 |
| 2024 | 224 | 267 |
| 2025 | 193 | 234 |
| 2026 | 167 | 151 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Actuation mechanisms for medical devices and related systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305922 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Surgical tool having positively positionable tendon-actuated multi-disk wrist joint2,495US 6,817,974 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2004
- Surgical instrument incorporating a fluid transfer controlled articulation mechanism2,340US 7,559,450 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2009
- Surgical stapler having an articulation mechanism2,209US 7,909,220 B2Tyco Healthcare Group LP · 2011