A61F 2/0811
Fixation devices for tendons or ligaments
Official title: {Fixation devices for tendons or ligaments}
A61F2/0811 (Fixation devices for tendons or ligaments) appears on 2,154 US grants and 2,493 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 2,154
- Published applications
- 2,493
- Assignees
- 566
- Inventors
- 2,525
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 13 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 11 | 0 |
| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 16 | 0 |
| 1994 | 23 | 0 |
| 1995 | 25 | 0 |
| 1996 | 31 | 0 |
| 1997 | 37 | 0 |
| 1998 | 27 | 0 |
| 1999 | 48 | 0 |
| 2000 | 42 | 0 |
| 2001 | 37 | 27 |
| 2002 | 28 | 57 |
| 2003 | 67 | 68 |
| 2004 | 33 | 78 |
| 2005 | 27 | 63 |
| 2006 | 35 | 62 |
| 2007 | 30 | 49 |
| 2008 | 24 | 92 |
| 2009 | 30 | 69 |
| 2010 | 51 | 91 |
| 2011 | 47 | 79 |
| 2012 | 67 | 103 |
| 2013 | 70 | 115 |
| 2014 | 90 | 129 |
| 2015 | 85 | 129 |
| 2016 | 130 | 132 |
| 2017 | 117 | 133 |
| 2018 | 97 | 110 |
| 2019 | 118 | 128 |
| 2020 | 123 | 135 |
| 2021 | 93 | 119 |
| 2022 | 100 | 122 |
| 2023 | 82 | 100 |
| 2024 | 89 | 105 |
| 2025 | 97 | 103 |
| 2026 | 66 | 95 |
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.
- Device for surgical reconstruction of a cruciate ligament8 Sep 2026US 12,727,989 B2Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
- 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.
- Prosthetic devices17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272663 A1Stryker European Operations Limited
- Implantable container for augmentation procedures10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263210 A1OTS Medical Ltd.
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