A61B 17/1637
Hollow drills or saws producing a curved cut
Official title: {Hollow drills or saws producing a curved cut, e.g. cylindrical (A61B10/025, A61B17/1695 take precedence)}
A61B17/1637 (Hollow drills or saws producing a curved cut) appears on 727 US grants and 844 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 727
- Published applications
- 844
- Assignees
- 294
- Inventors
- 1,158
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 38 | 26 |
| 2026 | 22 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Arthroscopic devices and methods25 Aug 2026US 12,714,453 B2RELIGN Corporation
- Systems, kits, and devices for drilling articular cartilage and methods thereof25 Aug 2026US 12,714,580 B2Epibone, Inc.
- Hip joint method18 Aug 2026US 12,708,375 B2
- Medical drill device and medical drill system18 Aug 2026US 12,708,377 B2Aesculap AG
- System for custom implant design and instrumentation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294637 A1Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Hip joint device and method3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256593 A1
- Osteotomy procedure for correcting bone misalignment6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224227 A1Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.
- Oscillating surgical cutting tool30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215788 A1Globus Medical, Inc.
- Rupturing tool and rupturing system with bilaterally articulated rupturing element9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191538 A1Abanza Tecnomed, S.L.
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By later US patents
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- Surgical method and apparatus for fusing adjacent bone structures887US 5,026,373 ASurgical Dynamics, Inc. · 1991
- System and method for joint resurface repair805US 6,520,964 B2STD Manufacturing Ltd. · 2003
- Cannula589US 5,098,435 AAlphatec Manufacturing, Inc. · 1992
- Minimally invasive spinal surgical methods and instruments584US 5,741,261 ASDGI Holdings, Inc. · 1998