A61F 2/08
Muscles
Official title: Muscles; Tendons; Ligaments
A61F2/08 (Muscles) appears on 3,028 US grants and 3,522 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 3,028
- Published applications
- 3,522
- Assignees
- 885
- Inventors
- 3,886
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 |
| 1987 | 12 | 0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 0 |
| 1989 | 14 | 0 |
| 1990 | 20 | 0 |
| 1991 | 20 | 0 |
| 1992 | 26 | 0 |
| 1993 | 30 | 0 |
| 1994 | 34 | 0 |
| 1995 | 41 | 0 |
| 1996 | 44 | 0 |
| 1997 | 47 | 0 |
| 1998 | 42 | 0 |
| 1999 | 65 | 0 |
| 2000 | 57 | 0 |
| 2001 | 47 | 34 |
| 2002 | 39 | 85 |
| 2003 | 87 | 97 |
| 2004 | 52 | 134 |
| 2005 | 41 | 111 |
| 2006 | 48 | 94 |
| 2007 | 43 | 88 |
| 2008 | 36 | 130 |
| 2009 | 47 | 109 |
| 2010 | 79 | 131 |
| 2011 | 68 | 122 |
| 2012 | 90 | 144 |
| 2013 | 100 | 159 |
| 2014 | 132 | 174 |
| 2015 | 120 | 166 |
| 2016 | 157 | 177 |
| 2017 | 160 | 184 |
| 2018 | 131 | 148 |
| 2019 | 148 | 176 |
| 2020 | 174 | 186 |
| 2021 | 139 | 176 |
| 2022 | 129 | 161 |
| 2023 | 118 | 141 |
| 2024 | 119 | 138 |
| 2025 | 125 | 141 |
| 2026 | 76 | 116 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Surgical devices for bone6 Oct 2026US 12,751,715 B2Expand Medical Ltd.
- Anchor apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,745,998 B2Spectral-Flush Anchor Systems LLC
- Soft anchors for anatomical fixation, and related systems and methods29 Sep 2026US 12,746,000 B2Medos International Sarl
- Patient-specific soft tissue rearrangement22 Sep 2026US 12,740,830 B2Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for delivering staples to a target tissue8 Sep 2026US 12,727,881 B2Rotation Medical, Inc.
- Soft anchor made from suture filament and suture tape24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283610 A1Linvatec Corporation
- Large push-in suture anchor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283612 A1Responsive Arthroscopy, Inc.
- Tensionable and lockable micro suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283780 A1Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.
- Reinforced medical implant and method of use17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272637 A1Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Prosthetic devices17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272663 A1Stryker European Operations Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems for securing sutures, grafts and soft tissue to bone and periosteum2,057US 6,200,330 B12001
- Surgical anchor implantation device1,853US 6,974,462 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2005
- Suture buttress1,840US 6,156,056 AEthicon, Inc. · 2000
- Method of securing a graft using a graft fixation device1,787US 6,436,110 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2002
- Suture buttress system1,747US 6,620,166 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2003