A61B 2017/0003
Of parts of the instruments
Official title: {of parts of the instruments}
A61B2017/0003 (Of parts of the instruments) appears on 380 US grants and 501 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 380
- Published applications
- 501
- Assignees
- 107
- Inventors
- 583
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2012 | 9 | 8 |
| 2013 | 5 | 16 |
| 2014 | 5 | 8 |
| 2015 | 9 | 10 |
| 2016 | 8 | 28 |
| 2017 | 8 | 11 |
| 2018 | 16 | 14 |
| 2019 | 18 | 118 |
| 2020 | 16 | 20 |
| 2021 | 36 | 42 |
| 2022 | 32 | 47 |
| 2023 | 56 | 41 |
| 2024 | 51 | 35 |
| 2025 | 50 | 33 |
| 2026 | 19 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Identification device for surgical instrument3,012US 5,529,235 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1996
- Identification device for surgical instrument2,647US 5,562,239 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1996
- Identification device for surgical instrument2,575US 5,535,937 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1996
- Identification device for surgical instrument2,556US 5,535,934 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1996
- Surgical instrument with automatically reconfigurable articulating end effector2,515US 7,922,061 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2011