A61F 2/2846
Support means for bone substitute or for bone graft implants
Official title: {Support means for bone substitute or for bone graft implants, e.g. membranes or plates for covering bone defects (nets or sleeves applied to surface of endoprostheses A61F2/30907; bone plates A61B17/80; bone regeneration in dental surgery A61C8/0006)}
A61F2/2846 (Support means for bone substitute or for bone graft implants) appears on 638 US grants and 832 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 638
- Published applications
- 832
- Assignees
- 343
- Inventors
- 1,208
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 14 | 9 |
| 2002 | 23 | 32 |
| 2003 | 17 | 17 |
| 2004 | 11 | 34 |
| 2005 | 7 | 25 |
| 2006 | 10 | 18 |
| 2007 | 14 | 21 |
| 2008 | 6 | 22 |
| 2009 | 9 | 19 |
| 2010 | 7 | 19 |
| 2011 | 18 | 25 |
| 2012 | 16 | 19 |
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| 2014 | 7 | 25 |
| 2015 | 24 | 37 |
| 2016 | 32 | 43 |
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| 2020 | 34 | 55 |
| 2021 | 37 | 65 |
| 2022 | 40 | 31 |
| 2023 | 39 | 45 |
| 2024 | 36 | 38 |
| 2025 | 28 | 37 |
| 2026 | 14 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Titanium mesh covered with biocompatible polypropylene film for covering and protecting bone grafts/biomaterials and process for obtaining same29 Sep 2026US 12,746,125 B2
- Bone graft containment system25 Aug 2026US 12,714,567 B2Secada Medical LLC
- Porous fusion device11 Aug 2026US 12,702,558 B2Spinal Simplicity, LLC
- Scaffold based implants2 Jun 2026US 12,642,644 B2Materialise N.V.
- Formable mesh for correcting bone defects19 May 2026US 12,629,252 B2Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Segmented calcium phosphate bone scaffolds with sacrificial zones for mechano-transductive bone regeneration and methods of making and using the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294629 A1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Non-osteoconductive inorganic device for bone formation, bone reshaping or healing of bone27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248595 A1Medcer AB
- Intervertebral members and methods of using a bone reinforcing composition for retaining the intervertebral members13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232460 A1FutureSpine Inc.
- Method for making implant having a web structure9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191659 A14WEB, Inc.
- Tissue engineering scaffolds2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185024 A1Vestlandets Innovasjonsselskap AS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of securing a graft using a graft fixation device1,787US 6,436,110 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2002
- Graft fixation device combination1,687US 6,402,766 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2002
- Delivery system attachment1,134US 9,333,082 B2Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. · 2016
- Systems and methods for treating fractured or diseased bone using expandable bodies943US 6,248,110 B1Kyphon Inc. · 2001
- Inflatable device for use in surgical protocols relating to treatment of fractured or diseased bones839US 5,827,289 A1998