A61B 17/0686
Having a forming anvil staying below the tissue during stapling
Official title: {having a forming anvil staying below the tissue during stapling}
A61B17/0686 (Having a forming anvil staying below the tissue during stapling) appears on 856 US grants and 986 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Surgical stapling instrument having a two-position lockout mechanism8 Sep 2026US 12,727,883 B2Applied Medical Resources Corporation
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- Techniques for adaptive control of motor velocity of a surgical stapling and cutting instrument8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306097 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Articulation indicator for a surgical instrument10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263067 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Robotic stapling and cutting systems and methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248503 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Method of operating a surgical instrument13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232313 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Surgical instrument with lockout mechanism13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232314 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
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- Surgical stapling apparatus3,191US 5,865,361 AUnited States Surgical Corporation · 1999
- Surgical stapling apparatus3,063US 6,241,139 B12001
- Robotically-controlled surgical end effector system with rotary actuated closure systems2,881US 8,573,465 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013
- Stapling device2,830US 5,782,397 AAlpha Surgical Technologies, Inc. · 1998