A61F 2002/30565
Having spring elements
Official title: {having spring elements}
A61F2002/30565 (Having spring elements) appears on 1,171 US grants and 1,441 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 22 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
- Interspinal vertebral implant1,349US 5,645,599 AFixano · 1997
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- V-thread fusion cage and method of fusing a bone joint1,185US 4,961,740 ASurgical Dynamics, Inc. · 1990
- Artificial spinal disc1,110US 4,759,769 AHealth & Research Services Inc. · 1988