A61B 2017/2931
With releasable head
Official title: {with releasable head}
A61B2017/2931 (With releasable head) appears on 784 US grants and 805 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 784
- Published applications
- 805
- Assignees
- 169
- Inventors
- 922
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 7 | 0 |
| 1994 | 15 | 0 |
| 1995 | 14 | 0 |
| 1996 | 19 | 0 |
| 1997 | 20 | 0 |
| 1998 | 31 | 0 |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 |
| 2000 | 14 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 12 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11 |
| 2004 | 1 | 15 |
| 2005 | 2 | 21 |
| 2006 | 10 | 25 |
| 2007 | 8 | 23 |
| 2008 | 6 | 21 |
| 2009 | 10 | 25 |
| 2010 | 16 | 29 |
| 2011 | 15 | 24 |
| 2012 | 27 | 105 |
| 2013 | 21 | 31 |
| 2014 | 38 | 65 |
| 2015 | 54 | 37 |
| 2016 | 54 | 51 |
| 2017 | 48 | 42 |
| 2018 | 32 | 40 |
| 2019 | 49 | 80 |
| 2020 | 41 | 32 |
| 2021 | 60 | 27 |
| 2022 | 32 | 33 |
| 2023 | 36 | 19 |
| 2024 | 28 | 16 |
| 2025 | 24 | 15 |
| 2026 | 10 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Treatment tool, treatment tool assembling method, and treatment tool disassembling method31 Mar 2026US 12,588,921 B2Olympus Corporation
- Multi-functional surgical instrument with attachable surgical instrument bits10 Feb 2026US 12,544,052 B2Nano Surgical, LLC
- Medical instrument28 May 2026US 2026/0144560 A1
- Grasper with magnetically-controlled positioning16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102176 A1Levita Magnetics International Corp.
- Medical devices and related methods12 Mar 2026US 2026/0069260 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Parallel kinematic mechanisms with decoupled rotational motions26 Feb 2026US 2026/0053588 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Robotically powered surgical device with manually-actuatable reversing system22 Jan 2026US 2026/0020853 A1Cilag GmbH International
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By later US patents
- Surgical stapling and cutting device3,391US 7,404,508 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2008
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- Selectively orientable implantable fastener cartridge2,602US 8,393,514 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013