A61B 2017/2901
Details of shaft
Official title: {Details of shaft}
A61B2017/2901 (Details of shaft) appears on 3,421 US grants and 3,880 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 3,421
- Published applications
- 3,880
- Assignees
- 663
- Inventors
- 3,654
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 39 | 20 |
| 2002 | 34 | 60 |
| 2003 | 54 | 66 |
| 2004 | 50 | 114 |
| 2005 | 33 | 123 |
| 2006 | 44 | 84 |
| 2007 | 40 | 117 |
| 2008 | 34 | 139 |
| 2009 | 49 | 125 |
| 2010 | 104 | 138 |
| 2011 | 83 | 149 |
| 2012 | 105 | 209 |
| 2013 | 135 | 188 |
| 2014 | 167 | 215 |
| 2015 | 169 | 186 |
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| 2017 | 180 | 207 |
| 2018 | 149 | 195 |
| 2019 | 201 | 303 |
| 2020 | 205 | 221 |
| 2021 | 211 | 187 |
| 2022 | 177 | 180 |
| 2023 | 180 | 134 |
| 2024 | 189 | 127 |
| 2025 | 161 | 127 |
| 2026 | 77 | 65 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Ultrasonic surgical instrument with articulating end effector having a curved blade1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294465 A1Cilag GmbH International
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Articulation assembly for surgical instruments3,515US 5,704,534 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Self contained gas powered surgical apparatus3,418US 5,312,023 AUnited States Surgical Corporation · 1994
- Surgical instrument3,312US 5,632,432 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Endoscopic surgical system with sensing means3,306US 5,383,880 AEthicon, Inc. · 1995
- Articulating surgical stapling instrument incorporating a two-piece E-beam firing mechanism3,243US 7,380,696 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2008