A61B 17/6491
Allowing small-scale motion of bone ends
Official title: {allowing small-scale motion of bone ends}
A61B17/6491 (Allowing small-scale motion of bone ends) appears on 69 US grants and 57 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 57
- Assignees
- 44
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 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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- Reference Devices and Methods of Use For External Fixation Frames14 Aug 2025US 2025/0255647 A1Stryker European Operations Limited
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Most cited
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- External fixator with controllable damping245US 5,207,676 AJaquet Orthopedie S.A. · 1993
- Method of fixing a spine with a fixation plate240US 6,273,889 B1Spinal Innovations, LLC · 2001