A61F 2002/0876
Position of anchor in respect to the bone
Official title: {Position of anchor in respect to the bone}
A61F2002/0876 (Position of anchor in respect to the bone) appears on 1,463 US grants and 1,606 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,606
- Assignees
- 391
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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.
- 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
- Tensionable and lockable micro suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283780 A1Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.
- Implantable container for augmentation procedures10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263210 A1OTS Medical Ltd.
- Medical implant delivery system and related methods20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240642 A1Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Backstop loader13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232309 A1Conmed Corporation
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
- Method and apparatus for anchoring and manipulating cartilage1,293US 4,741,330 A1988