A61B 5/4533
Ligaments
Official title: {Ligaments}
A61B5/4533 (Ligaments) appears on 246 US grants and 293 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 246
- Published applications
- 293
- Assignees
- 131
- Inventors
- 442
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 7 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 7 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 11 |
| 2009 | 5 | 11 |
| 2010 | 4 | 15 |
| 2011 | 10 | 27 |
| 2012 | 9 | 19 |
| 2013 | 14 | 12 |
| 2014 | 13 | 16 |
| 2015 | 14 | 8 |
| 2016 | 17 | 11 |
| 2017 | 8 | 16 |
| 2018 | 4 | 12 |
| 2019 | 10 | 16 |
| 2020 | 14 | 21 |
| 2021 | 8 | 14 |
| 2022 | 12 | 17 |
| 2023 | 14 | 16 |
| 2024 | 15 | 11 |
| 2025 | 14 | 11 |
| 2026 | 10 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Brace having integrated remote patient monitoring technology and method of using same22 Sep 2026US 12,740,724 B2Djo, LLC
- Ligament balancing tool and method for same28 Jul 2026US 12,690,783 B2Globus Medical, Inc.
- Technologies for intra-operative ligament balancing using machine learning30 Jun 2026US 12,667,303 B2Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Method and device for diagnosing anterior cruciate ligament injury susceptibility16 Jun 2026US 12,653,422 B2
- Noninvasive diagnostic system2 Jun 2026US 12,646,614 B2JointVue, LLC
- Technologies for intra-operative ligament balancing using machine learning24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283541 A1Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Elastography for ligament characterization17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272555 A1Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Systems and Methods for Template-Assisted Pie-Crusting with Digital Image Correlation5 Mar 2026US 2026/0060608 A1Endeavor Health Clinical Operations
- Knee arthroplasty method5 Mar 2026US 2026/0060755 A1Dynamic Balancer Systems LLC
- Wireless measurement of suture tension25 Dec 2025US 2025/0387084 A1University of Oregon
Most cited
By later US patents
- Miniature implanted orthopedic sensors845US 6,447,448 B1Ball Semiconductor, Inc. · 2002
- Patient selectable joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools557US 7,981,158 B2ConforMIS, Inc. · 2011
- Patient selectable joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools456US 8,105,330 B2ConforMIS, Inc. · 2012
- Three dimensional multibody modeling of anatomical joints454US 6,161,080 AThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · 2000
- Patient selectable joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools451US 8,066,708 B2ConforMIS, Inc. · 2011