A61B 2017/0474
Knot pushers
Official title: {Knot pushers}
A61B2017/0474 (Knot pushers) appears on 498 US grants and 485 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 498
- Published applications
- 485
- Assignees
- 170
- Inventors
- 691
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 8 | 3 |
| 2002 | 8 | 28 |
| 2003 | 10 | 26 |
| 2004 | 11 | 32 |
| 2005 | 8 | 18 |
| 2006 | 11 | 16 |
| 2007 | 8 | 21 |
| 2008 | 6 | 20 |
| 2009 | 10 | 24 |
| 2010 | 22 | 25 |
| 2011 | 27 | 14 |
| 2012 | 27 | 11 |
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| 2017 | 20 | 29 |
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| 2019 | 19 | 29 |
| 2020 | 24 | 26 |
| 2021 | 16 | 20 |
| 2022 | 20 | 23 |
| 2023 | 17 | 15 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7 |
| 2025 | 14 | 5 |
| 2026 | 8 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Surgical knot pusher29 Sep 2026US 12,746,002 B2Novelrad Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for minimally invasive suturing4 Aug 2026US 12,697,115 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Surgical cutting device14 Jul 2026US 12,678,154 B2T.A.G. Medical Products Corporation Ltd.
- Surgical ligature instrument for minimally invasive surgery7 Apr 2026US 12,594,066 B2
- Knot tying device17 Mar 2026US 12,575,824 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Surgical tool1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294458 A1AtriCure, Inc.
- Systems and methods for leaflet folding17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272449 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Suture device and related methods6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224215 A1NeuroFine Corp.
- Single-handed ligation device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198927 A1The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
- Suture needle devices and suture attachment methods11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157748 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical instrument for forming a knot1,907US 5,846,254 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Methods and apparatus for cardiac valve repair1,620US 6,629,534 B1Evalve, Inc. · 2003
- Tissue reconfiguration1,584US 6,494,888 B1ndo surgical, Inc. · 2002
- Endoscopic suturing system1,510US 7,530,985 B2Olympus Corporation · 2009
- Tunneling instrument for port access multivessel coronary artery bypass surgery1,399US 6,613,069 B2Heartport, Inc. · 2003