A61B 17/0485
Devices or means
Official title: {Devices or means, e.g. loops, for capturing the suture thread and threading it through an opening of a suturing instrument or needle eyelet}
A61B17/0485 (Devices or means) appears on 987 US grants and 1,251 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 987
- Published applications
- 1,251
- Assignees
- 304
- Inventors
- 1,365
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2022 | 71 | 62 |
| 2023 | 49 | 69 |
| 2024 | 50 | 57 |
| 2025 | 68 | 73 |
| 2026 | 35 | 47 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Knotless all suture tissue repair22 Sep 2026US 12,740,778 B2ArthroCare Corporation
- Knotless all suture tissue repair22 Sep 2026US 12,740,779 B2ArthroCare Corporation
- Surgical guidewire device and suture fixation system8 Sep 2026US 12,727,876 B2Astron Medtech Corporation
- Suture guiding device1 Sep 2026US 12,721,620 B2Astron Medtech Corporation
- Suture anchors with one-way locking mechanisms18 Aug 2026US 12,708,359 B2Arthrex, Inc.
- Medical systems, devices and methods adapted for tissue fixation and approximating tissue defects10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263064 A1TAS Medical Inc.
- Soft Anchor Constructs And Methods Of Tissue Repairs27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248605 A1Arthrex, Inc.
- Knotless Locking Loop Constructs and Methods of Tissue Repair20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240538 A1Arthrex, Inc.
- Suture assembly with tubular sheath pledget and method of using the same13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232307 A1Arthrex, Inc.
- Knotless Constructs and Methods of Tissue Repair13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232308 A1Arthrex, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical fastener apparatus and reinforcing material2,010US 7,559,937 B2TowerTech Research Group · 2009
- Suture buttress1,840US 6,156,056 AEthicon, Inc. · 2000
- Suture buttress system1,747US 6,620,166 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2003
- Suture buttress1,742US 6,814,741 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2004
- Tissue reconfiguration1,584US 6,494,888 B1ndo surgical, Inc. · 2002