A61B 17/704
The longitudinal element passing through a ball-joint in the screw head
Official title: {the longitudinal element passing through a ball-joint in the screw head}
A61B17/704 (The longitudinal element passing through a ball-joint in the screw head) appears on 249 US grants and 290 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 249
- Published applications
- 290
- Assignees
- 86
- Inventors
- 355
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 14 |
| 2006 | 3 | 22 |
| 2007 | 3 | 15 |
| 2008 | 0 | 31 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8 |
| 2010 | 15 | 13 |
| 2011 | 12 | 11 |
| 2012 | 16 | 7 |
| 2013 | 18 | 20 |
| 2014 | 14 | 18 |
| 2015 | 16 | 14 |
| 2016 | 20 | 17 |
| 2017 | 18 | 14 |
| 2018 | 8 | 10 |
| 2019 | 12 | 11 |
| 2020 | 10 | 12 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7 |
| 2022 | 7 | 15 |
| 2023 | 11 | 6 |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9 |
| 2026 | 8 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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