A61B 2017/06009
Having additional means for releasably clamping the suture to the needle
Official title: {having additional means for releasably clamping the suture to the needle, e.g. actuating rod slideable within the needle}
A61B2017/06009 (Having additional means for releasably clamping the suture to the needle) appears on 301 US grants and 363 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and apparatus for passing suture through tissue12 May 2026US 12,622,690 B2Stryker Corporation
- Indirect attachment of a needle to a mesh suture24 Feb 2026US 12,558,089 B2Northwestern University
- Surgical instrument for manipulating and passing suture3 Feb 2026US 12,539,113 B2Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Indirect attachment of a needle to a mesh suture10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263065 A1Northwestern University
- Method and apparatus for passing suture through tissue13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232311 A1Stryker Corporation
- Suture needle devices and suture attachment methods11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157748 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Surgical instrument for manipulating and passing suture9 Apr 2026US 2026/0096816 A1Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Method and apparatus for loading and/or unloading suture and/or a shuttle11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375195 A1Clauson Creative Engineering, Inc.
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