A61B 17/06195
Apparatus or means for preparing the cut end of the suture thread
Official title: {Apparatus or means for preparing the cut end of the suture thread to be attached to the needle, e.g. tipping to prevent brooming (A61B17/06004 takes precedence)}
A61B17/06195 (Apparatus or means for preparing the cut end of the suture thread) appears on 76 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 76
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 80
- Latest grant
- 5 Dec 2023
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| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Systems, devices and methods of making surgical sutures having reformed, reduced diameter, offset tips5 Dec 2023US 11,832,812 B2Ethicon, Inc.
- Tapered looped suture14 Nov 2023US 11,812,950 B2Covidien LP
- Method of preparing suture anchor using suture and prepared suture anchor30 Aug 2022US 11,426,157 B2Aju Pharm Co., Ltd.
- Minimally invasive surgical clamping device and methods thereof25 Jan 2022US 11,229,441 B2LSI Solutions, Inc.
- Systems, devices and methods of making surgical sutures having reformed, reduced diameter tips18 Jan 2022US 11,224,421 B2Ethicon, Inc.
- Systems, devices and methods of making surgical sutures having reformed, reduced diameter, offset tips7 Apr 2022US 2022/0104812 A1Ethicon, Inc.
- Tapered looped suture20 May 2021US 2021/0145436 A1Covidien LP
- Suture having a restraining element at an end method and use thereof10 Sep 2020US 2020/0285448 A1
- Method of preparing suture anchor using suture and prepared suture anchor30 Jul 2020US 2020/0237364 A1Aju Pharm Co., Ltd.
- Systems, devices and methods of making surgical sutures having reformed, reduced diameter tips28 May 2020US 2020/0163669 A1Ethicon, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Suture devices particularly useful in endoscopic surgery373US 5,074,874 A1991
- Surgical tipping apparatus337US 6,306,157 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2001
- Method for suturing with a bioabsorbable needle272US 4,981,149 A1991
- Loop threaded combined surgical needle-suture device263US 5,259,846 AUnited States Surgical Corporation · 1993
- Suture devices particularly useful in endoscopic surgery and methods of suturing240US 4,932,962 A1990