A61B 17/0684
Having a forming anvil staying above the tissue during stapling
Official title: {having a forming anvil staying above the tissue during stapling}
A61B17/0684 (Having a forming anvil staying above the tissue during stapling) appears on 506 US grants and 429 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical device for stapling and/or fastening body tissues3,256US 5,389,098 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Surgical stapler3,095US 6,032,849 AUnited States Surgical Corporation · 2000
- Intravascular stapler, and method of operating same2,980US 5,042,707 A1991
- Surgical instrument and method2,959US 5,662,662 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues2,929US 5,467,911 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1995