A61B 17/8897
Guide wires or guide pins
Official title: {Guide wires or guide pins}
A61B17/8897 (Guide wires or guide pins) appears on 716 US grants and 970 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 716
- Published applications
- 970
- Assignees
- 305
- Inventors
- 1,223
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 3 | 8 |
| 2005 | 0 | 25 |
| 2006 | 4 | 16 |
| 2007 | 4 | 33 |
| 2008 | 1 | 28 |
| 2009 | 11 | 31 |
| 2010 | 22 | 21 |
| 2011 | 22 | 33 |
| 2012 | 17 | 37 |
| 2013 | 28 | 46 |
| 2014 | 33 | 43 |
| 2015 | 44 | 40 |
| 2016 | 45 | 47 |
| 2017 | 38 | 40 |
| 2018 | 39 | 50 |
| 2019 | 39 | 37 |
| 2020 | 39 | 53 |
| 2021 | 49 | 57 |
| 2022 | 53 | 67 |
| 2023 | 51 | 73 |
| 2024 | 65 | 67 |
| 2025 | 64 | 78 |
| 2026 | 37 | 35 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Medical drill device and medical drill system18 Aug 2026US 12,708,377 B2Aesculap AG
- Fenestrated implant18 Aug 2026US 12,708,415 B2SI-Bone Inc.
- Guidewire-capturing surgical instrument8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306115 A1Globus Medical, Inc.
- Anatomical proximal humerus osteosynthesis devices and systems and methods of use thereof24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283662 A1DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
- Joint osteotomy system and method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272524 A1Wright Medical Technology, Inc.
- Bone fixation system for sacroiliac joint and related methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248518 A1
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Tissue access guidewire system and method1,558US 7,857,813 B2Baxano, Inc. · 2010
- Minimally invasive tooling for delivery of interspinous spacer1,130US 8,128,662 B2VertiFlex, Inc. · 2012
- Access and tissue modification systems and methods1,072US 8,568,416 B2Baxano Surgical, Inc. · 2013
- Instruments for stabilization of bony structures820US 6,530,929 B1SDGI Holdings, Inc. · 2003
- Spinal stabilization systems and methods633US 7,250,052 B2Abbott Spine · 2007