A61F 2002/0847
Mode of fixation of anchor to tendon or ligament
Official title: {Mode of fixation of anchor to tendon or ligament}
A61F2002/0847 (Mode of fixation of anchor to tendon or ligament) appears on 1,483 US grants and 1,722 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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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.
- Implant for reinforcement of soft tissues1 Sep 2026US 12,721,720 B1Tm Holding Companies, 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
- Soft Anchor Constructs And Methods Of Tissue Repairs27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248605 A1Arthrex, Inc.
- Backstop loader13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232309 A1Conmed Corporation
- Non-Suture Soft Tissue Anchor Device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232427 A1
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
- Ligament fixation staple1,712US 5,209,756 A1993
- Systems for securing sutures, grafts and soft tissue to bone and periosteum1,553US 7,326,213 B22008
- Multi-point tissue tension distribution device and method, a chin lift variation1,464US 7,510,566 B2Coapt Systems, Inc. · 2009