A61F 2/0031
For constricting the lumen
Official title: {for constricting the lumen; Support slings for the urethra}
A61F2/0031 (For constricting the lumen) appears on 1,796 US grants and 2,149 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,796
- Published applications
- 2,149
- Assignees
- 452
- Inventors
- 2,154
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 32 | 0 |
| 2001 | 20 | 11 |
| 2002 | 46 | 61 |
| 2003 | 49 | 68 |
| 2004 | 34 | 69 |
| 2005 | 25 | 83 |
| 2006 | 41 | 93 |
| 2007 | 28 | 57 |
| 2008 | 37 | 98 |
| 2009 | 37 | 99 |
| 2010 | 54 | 121 |
| 2011 | 74 | 152 |
| 2012 | 73 | 109 |
| 2013 | 85 | 120 |
| 2014 | 138 | 158 |
| 2015 | 112 | 136 |
| 2016 | 122 | 133 |
| 2017 | 114 | 75 |
| 2018 | 115 | 56 |
| 2019 | 93 | 74 |
| 2020 | 62 | 56 |
| 2021 | 45 | 56 |
| 2022 | 47 | 60 |
| 2023 | 35 | 66 |
| 2024 | 45 | 40 |
| 2025 | 30 | 52 |
| 2026 | 27 | 46 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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