A61F 2/48
Operating or control means
Official title: Operating or control means, e.g. from outside the body or control of sphincters
A61F2/48 (Operating or control means) appears on 687 US grants and 1,031 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 687
- Published applications
- 1,031
- Assignees
- 332
- Inventors
- 1,400
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 6 | 6 |
| 2004 | 4 | 11 |
| 2005 | 1 | 20 |
| 2006 | 5 | 20 |
| 2007 | 9 | 25 |
| 2008 | 3 | 20 |
| 2009 | 7 | 24 |
| 2010 | 17 | 43 |
| 2011 | 11 | 26 |
| 2012 | 23 | 35 |
| 2013 | 22 | 29 |
| 2014 | 41 | 43 |
| 2015 | 33 | 38 |
| 2016 | 35 | 50 |
| 2017 | 41 | 40 |
| 2018 | 37 | 59 |
| 2019 | 41 | 65 |
| 2020 | 55 | 73 |
| 2021 | 46 | 66 |
| 2022 | 46 | 53 |
| 2023 | 43 | 71 |
| 2024 | 50 | 62 |
| 2025 | 52 | 75 |
| 2026 | 32 | 73 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Smart implants for periprosthetic joint infection6 Oct 2026US 12,751,826 B2Globus Medical, Inc.
- Leak detection for implantable inflation devices29 Sep 2026US 12,746,132 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Artificial bladder system15 Sep 2026US 12,734,025 B2
- Implantable medical device8 Sep 2026US 12,727,984 B2Uromems
- Multi-device health parameter monitoring systems, methods, and devices25 Aug 2026US 12,714,368 B2GS-HealthMatrix, LLC
- Interbody fusion system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306272 A1Globus Medical, Inc.
- Systems and methods for vergence matching with an optical profile and using refractive index writing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307346 A1AMO Groningen B. V.
- Intraurethral device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283772 A1Ingenion Medical Limited
- Implantable medical device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272377 A1Siemens Healthineers AG
- Flow restriction devices with covered portions17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272656 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Remotely powered and remotely interrogated wireless digital sensor telemetry system1,600US 7,256,695 B2Microstrain, Inc. · 2007
- Collapsible, rotatable and expandable spinal hydraulic prosthetic device1,011US 6,375,682 B12002
- Miniature implanted orthopedic sensors845US 6,447,448 B1Ball Semiconductor, Inc. · 2002
- Six degree of freedom alignment display for medical procedures671US 7,660,623 B2Medtronic Navigation, Inc. · 2010
- Vertebral body prosthesis611US 5,236,460 AMidas Rex Pneumatic Tools, Inc. · 1993