A61B 2017/0411
Instruments for removing suture anchors
Official title: {Instruments for removing suture anchors}
A61B2017/0411 (Instruments for removing suture anchors) appears on 88 US grants and 86 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 88
- Published applications
- 86
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 185
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 7 | 5 |
| 2024 | 1 | 6 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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