A61F 2002/183
Ear parts
Official title: {Ear parts}
A61F2002/183 (Ear parts) appears on 297 US grants and 292 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 297
- Published applications
- 292
- Assignees
- 148
- Inventors
- 524
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 2 |
| 2002 | 7 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 8 |
| 2005 | 3 | 5 |
| 2006 | 4 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 | 12 |
| 2008 | 3 | 15 |
| 2009 | 4 | 11 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13 |
| 2011 | 3 | 13 |
| 2012 | 14 | 17 |
| 2013 | 7 | 11 |
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| 2016 | 10 | 7 |
| 2017 | 13 | 15 |
| 2018 | 5 | 20 |
| 2019 | 14 | 15 |
| 2020 | 12 | 11 |
| 2021 | 16 | 19 |
| 2022 | 7 | 13 |
| 2023 | 13 | 14 |
| 2024 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 14 | 8 |
| 2026 | 6 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Medical device and prosthesis18 Aug 2026US 12,708,281 B2Cochlear Limited
- Systems and methods for treating hearing loss23 Jun 2026US 12,663,629 B2Spiral Therapeutics Inc.
- Otological surgery under perfluorocarbon liquids12 May 2026US 12,622,812 B2Alcon Inc.
- PCL patch tissue regeneration scaffold and method for manufacturing same12 May 2026US 12,622,999 B2Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Winged grafts for tympanic membrane repair and augmentation10 Mar 2026US 12,569,334 B2Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
- Replacement prosthesis for auditory ossicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306252 A1Kyungpook National University Hospital
- Surgical template and method for configuring and/or manufacturing a surgical template20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240551 A1Karl Leibinger Asset Management GmbH & Co. KG
- Temporal bone implant and method for configuring and/or manufacturing a temporal bone implant20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240569 A1Karl Leibinger Asset Management GmbH & Co. KG
- Biopolymer-based tympanostomy tubes with programmable, tunable, and on-demand degradation20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240644 A1Trustees of Tufts College
- Medical device and prosthesis30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215698 A1Cochlear Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Otologic prosthesis1,485US 6,554,861 B2Gyrus Ent, L.L.C. · 2003
- Implantable structure386US 4,052,754 A1977
- Electromechanical transducer for implantable hearing aids311US 5,277,694 AImplex Corporation · 1994
- Implantable electromagnetic middle-ear bone-conduction hearing aid device268US 4,606,329 AXomed, Inc. · 1986
- Implantable auditory system with micromachined microsensor and microactuator253US 5,531,787 A1996