A61B 2017/320071
With articulating means for working tip
Official title: {with articulating means for working tip}
A61B2017/320071 (With articulating means for working tip) appears on 620 US grants and 741 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 620
- Published applications
- 741
- Assignees
- 76
- Inventors
- 658
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method of operating an articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument22 Sep 2026US 12,740,801 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Shielding features for ultrasonic blade of a surgical instrument15 Sep 2026US 12,734,375 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Ultrasonic surgical instrument with a mid-shaft closure system and related methods25 Aug 2026US 12,714,455 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Hand held dermaplaning device and dermaplaning process11 Aug 2026US 12,702,213 B2DD Karma LLC
- Ultrasonic surgical instrument with articulating end effector having a curved blade7 Jul 2026US 12,672,891 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Oscillating surgical bone removal tool with angular displacement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306125 A1Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
- Technologies for rotating electrical contacts on surgical devices to deliver energy to tissue1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294463 A1
- Ultrasonic surgical instrument with articulating end effector having a curved blade1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294465 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Methods and features for coupling ultrasonic surgical instrument components together17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272496 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Method of operating a surgical instrument13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232313 A1Cilag GmbH International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic surgical tool with ultrasound cauterizing and cutting instrument3,961US 6,783,524 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2004
- Robotically-controlled cable-based surgical end effectors2,844US 8,800,838 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014
- Shiftable drive interface for robotically-controlled surgical tool2,373US 8,616,431 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013
- Bipolar or ultrasonic surgical device2,316US 8,292,888 B2Tyco Healthcare Group LP · 2012
- Surgical instrument soft stop2,256US 9,307,986 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016