A61F 2/3672
Intermediate parts of shafts
Official title: {Intermediate parts of shafts}
A61F2/3672 (Intermediate parts of shafts) appears on 298 US grants and 222 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 298
- Published applications
- 222
- Assignees
- 120
- Inventors
- 467
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 8 | 6 |
| 2026 | 3 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Patient specific femoral prosthesis16 Jun 2026US 12,653,684 B2DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
- Connecting sleeve for anchoring shafts of two oppositely arranged prostheses27 Jan 2026US 12,533,237 B2Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG
- Modular prosthesis for at least partial replacement of a tubular bone adjoining a joint6 Jan 2026US 12,514,708 B2WALDERMAR LINK Gmbh & Co. KG
- Prosthesis surface treatment for soft tissue attachment thereto30 Dec 2025US 12,508,133 B2Onkos Surgical, Inc.
- Trial neck and method28 Oct 2025US 12,453,645 B2Depuy Ireland Unlimited Company
- Expandable trial femoral neck and associated method of use30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215925 A1Globus Medical, Inc.
- Modular prosthesis for at least partial replacement of a tubular bone adjoining a joint7 May 2026US 2026/0124038 A1Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG
- Orthopaedic taper assembly instrument for taper locking the components of a hip prosthesis during a hip replacement surgical procedure and method of using the same23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108367 A1
- Trial neck and method26 Feb 2026US 2026/0053643 A1Depuy Ireland Unlimited Company
- Custom hip design and insertability analysis8 Jan 2026US 2026/0007521 A1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Most cited
By later US patents
- Miniature implanted orthopedic sensors845US 6,447,448 B1Ball Semiconductor, Inc. · 2002
- Femoral hip-joint prosthesis with a logarithmically extending curvature349US 6,383,228 B1Plus Endoprothetik AG · 2002
- Modular prosthesis307US 5,314,479 ADePuy Inc. · 1994
- Surgical instruments for hip revision293US 5,342,366 ABiomet, Inc. · 1994
- Prosthetic hip joint having sintered polycrystalline diamond compact articulation surfaces277US 6,290,726 B1Diamicron, Inc. · 2001