A61B 17/8635
Tips of screws
Official title: {Tips of screws}
A61B17/8635 (Tips of screws) appears on 558 US grants and 686 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 558
- Published applications
- 686
- Assignees
- 260
- Inventors
- 923
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2011 | 11 | 25 |
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| 2013 | 22 | 35 |
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| 2022 | 36 | 55 |
| 2023 | 30 | 37 |
| 2024 | 48 | 34 |
| 2025 | 40 | 35 |
| 2026 | 22 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Differential Compression Bone Screw8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306154 A1In2Bones USA, LLC
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- System and method for a medical implant with integrated propulsors13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232459 A1
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Image-guided minimal-step placement of screw into bone859US 8,366,719 B2Integrated Spinal Concepts, Inc. · 2013
- Cannula589US 5,098,435 AAlphatec Manufacturing, Inc. · 1992
- Selectively expandable sacral fixation screw-sleeve device580US 5,713,904 AThird Millennium Engineering, LLC · 1998
- Cannulated fixation screw566US 4,537,185 A1985
- Flexible spinal stabilization system and method564US 6,783,527 B2SDGI Holdings, Inc. · 2004