A61B 2017/320089
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A61B2017/320089 (Node location) appears on 531 US grants and 605 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 531
- Published applications
- 605
- Assignees
- 96
- Inventors
- 589
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 14 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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 articulating end effector having a curved blade7 Jul 2026US 12,672,891 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Ultrasonic probes for producing multiple cavitation volumes16 Jun 2026US 12,653,568 B2Solta Medical Ireland Limited
- Methods and features for coupling ultrasonic surgical instrument components together9 Jun 2026US 12,648,785 B2Cilag GmbH International
- 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
- Articulating ultrasonic surgical instruments and systems18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165727 A1Covidien LP
- Surgical instruments with articulating shafts29 Jan 2026US 2026/0026832 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Ultrasonic treatment tool22 Jan 2026US 2026/0020875 A1Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical instrument soft stop2,256US 9,307,986 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
- Finger operated switch for controlling a surgical handpiece2,122US 6,945,981 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2005
- Rotary powered surgical instruments with multiple degrees of freedom2,016US 9,398,911 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
- Ultrasonic surgical device having an embedding surface and a coagulating surface2,011US 6,416,486 B1Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2002
- Blunt tipped ultrasonic trocar2,010US 5,449,370 AEthicon, Inc. · 1995