A61B 17/0483
Hand-held instruments for holding sutures
Official title: {Hand-held instruments for holding sutures (A61B17/0469 takes precedence; other holders for needles or sutures A61B17/06061; surgical forceps A61B17/28; surgical pincettes A61B17/30)}
A61B17/0483 (Hand-held instruments for holding sutures) appears on 1,111 US grants and 1,333 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,111
- Published applications
- 1,333
- Assignees
- 372
- Inventors
- 1,586
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 46 | 54 |
| 2025 | 54 | 47 |
| 2026 | 30 | 33 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Tissue repair device8 Sep 2026US 12,727,873 B2Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for supporting a u-shaped portion of an elongate flexible element relative to a human body tissue1 Sep 2026US 12,721,618 B2TriMed, Inc.
- Achilles tendon repair device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,419 B2
- Surgical suturing device for repair of tricuspid regurgitation and methods thereof25 Aug 2026US 12,714,420 B2LSI Solutions, Inc.
- Surgical vessel closing pressure device with pressure sensitive film11 Aug 2026US 12,702,404 B2Catheter Precision, Inc.
- Suture retrieval device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272447 A1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Suture Tensioner and Methods of Tensioning17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272450 A1Arthrex, Inc.
- Inflatable bariatric clamp10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263251 A1Advanced Bariatric Technology, LLC
- Reusable automated suture adapter for laparoscopic surgery20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240537 A1Koc Universitesi
- Method and apparatus for passing suture through tissue13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232311 A1Stryker Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flexible instrument2,033US 7,090,683 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2006
- Apparatus for endoscopic procedures1,973US 8,672,206 B2Covidien LP · 2014
- Surgical instrument for forming a knot1,907US 5,846,254 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Surgical implants and related methods1,749US 7,722,527 B2AMS Research Corporation · 2010
- Suture reinforement material for automatic suturing device1,603US 8,177,797 B2Gunze Limited · 2012