A61B 2017/2913
Cams or guiding means
Official title: {cams or guiding means}
A61B2017/2913 (Cams or guiding means) appears on 541 US grants and 591 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 541
- Published applications
- 591
- Assignees
- 137
- Inventors
- 715
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 3 |
| 2002 | 7 | 16 |
| 2003 | 8 | 11 |
| 2004 | 9 | 19 |
| 2005 | 3 | 11 |
| 2006 | 6 | 14 |
| 2007 | 9 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 11 |
| 2009 | 10 | 9 |
| 2010 | 19 | 18 |
| 2011 | 9 | 19 |
| 2012 | 16 | 35 |
| 2013 | 10 | 27 |
| 2014 | 23 | 30 |
| 2015 | 21 | 29 |
| 2016 | 24 | 28 |
| 2017 | 36 | 47 |
| 2018 | 27 | 26 |
| 2019 | 35 | 49 |
| 2020 | 39 | 56 |
| 2021 | 48 | 31 |
| 2022 | 37 | 28 |
| 2023 | 30 | 15 |
| 2024 | 36 | 20 |
| 2025 | 24 | 20 |
| 2026 | 10 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Powered surgical stapling device with end effector articulation5 May 2026US 12,616,475 B2Covidien LP
- Surgical device with three position safety trigger assembly5 May 2026US 12,616,546 B2Covidien LP
- Clamp and cable24 Mar 2026US 12,582,428 B2Brook Orthopaedics Ltd
- Forceps including actuation limiting10 Mar 2026US 12,569,268 B2Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
- Forceps motion transfer assembly3 Mar 2026US 12,564,415 B2Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
- Powered surgical stapling device with end effector articulation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224219 A1Covidien LP
- Instrument for ophthalmic surgery23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207379 A1Moria SA
- Forceps motion transfer assembly4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151152 A1GYRUS ACMI INC. (d.b.a.Olympus Surgical Technologies America)
- Medical manipulator28 May 2026US 2026/0144563 A1Olympus Corporation
- Systems and methods for delivering adjustable shunting systems23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108388 A1Shifamed Holdings, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Articulation assembly for surgical instruments3,515US 5,704,534 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Surgical instrument3,312US 5,632,432 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Surgical instrument2,967US 5,673,841 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Robotically-controlled surgical end effector system with rotary actuated closure systems2,881US 8,573,465 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013
- Surgical instrument2,737US 5,673,840 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997