A61B 2017/00309
Cut-outs or slits
Official title: {Cut-outs or slits}
A61B2017/00309 (Cut-outs or slits) appears on 829 US grants and 1,111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 829
- Published applications
- 1,111
- Assignees
- 329
- Inventors
- 1,394
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 3 | 9 |
| 2005 | 1 | 7 |
| 2006 | 1 | 12 |
| 2007 | 0 | 16 |
| 2008 | 9 | 6 |
| 2009 | 6 | 10 |
| 2010 | 3 | 13 |
| 2011 | 10 | 26 |
| 2012 | 14 | 34 |
| 2013 | 15 | 31 |
| 2014 | 22 | 52 |
| 2015 | 28 | 41 |
| 2016 | 32 | 70 |
| 2017 | 36 | 68 |
| 2018 | 50 | 80 |
| 2019 | 70 | 96 |
| 2020 | 69 | 102 |
| 2021 | 68 | 82 |
| 2022 | 86 | 102 |
| 2023 | 73 | 71 |
| 2024 | 84 | 70 |
| 2025 | 76 | 74 |
| 2026 | 42 | 33 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method of operating an articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument22 Sep 2026US 12,740,801 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Medical devices with distal control15 Sep 2026US 12,734,334 B2MicroNovus, LLC
- Articulation joint having an inner guide8 Sep 2026US 12,727,901 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Flexible instrument with embedded actuation conduits1 Sep 2026US 12,721,688 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Off-center tissue anchors25 Aug 2026US 12,714,417 B24Tech Inc.
- Articulable tube assemblies1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295217 A1
- Device and method for releasing catheters from cardiac structures17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273225 A1Ancora Heart, Inc.
- A powered steerable system, a computer implemented method, and a computer program product for navigating an elongated surgical device through a bodily lumen of a patient27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248577 A1Artiria Medical SA
- Shape memory alloy enabled robotic modular mass debrider13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232375 A1City of Hope
- Intravascular device with enhanced one-beam cut pattern13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232953 A1Scientia Vascular, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Articulation assembly for surgical instruments3,515US 5,704,534 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Surgical instrument3,312US 5,632,432 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Articulating surgical stapling instrument incorporating a two-piece E-beam firing mechanism3,243US 7,380,696 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2008
- Surgical instrument2,967US 5,673,841 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Surgical instrument2,737US 5,673,840 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997