A61B 17/157
Cutting tibia
Official title: {Cutting tibia}
A61B17/157 (Cutting tibia) appears on 1,105 US grants and 1,277 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,105
- Published applications
- 1,277
- Assignees
- 210
- Inventors
- 1,186
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 4 | 12 |
| 2003 | 9 | 12 |
| 2004 | 6 | 19 |
| 2005 | 5 | 33 |
| 2006 | 12 | 36 |
| 2007 | 6 | 28 |
| 2008 | 9 | 35 |
| 2009 | 14 | 43 |
| 2010 | 30 | 51 |
| 2011 | 21 | 44 |
| 2012 | 34 | 59 |
| 2013 | 69 | 74 |
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| 2018 | 53 | 75 |
| 2019 | 74 | 83 |
| 2020 | 60 | 61 |
| 2021 | 69 | 78 |
| 2022 | 47 | 75 |
| 2023 | 64 | 51 |
| 2024 | 54 | 49 |
| 2025 | 53 | 46 |
| 2026 | 37 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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