A61B 2017/07228
Arrangement of the staples
Official title: {Arrangement of the staples}
A61B2017/07228 (Arrangement of the staples) appears on 1,025 US grants and 1,201 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Articulation assembly for surgical instruments3,515US 5,704,534 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Surgical stapler instrument3,334US 5,465,895 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1995
- Surgical instrument3,312US 5,632,432 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Surgical device for stapling and/or fastening body tissues3,256US 5,389,098 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Surgical instrument2,967US 5,673,841 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997