A61F 2002/30594
Slotted
Official title: {slotted, e.g. radial or meridian slot ending in a polar aperture, non-polar slots, horizontal or arcuate slots}
A61F2002/30594 (Slotted) appears on 1,256 US grants and 1,246 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,256
- Published applications
- 1,246
- Assignees
- 376
- Inventors
- 1,543
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 26 | 8 |
| 2002 | 27 | 47 |
| 2003 | 26 | 52 |
| 2004 | 38 | 74 |
| 2005 | 24 | 53 |
| 2006 | 29 | 54 |
| 2007 | 28 | 62 |
| 2008 | 16 | 53 |
| 2009 | 38 | 40 |
| 2010 | 40 | 74 |
| 2011 | 49 | 70 |
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| 2022 | 31 | 27 |
| 2023 | 27 | 15 |
| 2024 | 27 | 20 |
| 2025 | 16 | 22 |
| 2026 | 11 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Expandable fusion device and method of installation thereof4 Aug 2026US 12,697,231 B2
- Hip joint device and method16 Jun 2026US 12,653,683 B2
- Hip joint device and method3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256593 A1
- Bipolar prostheses subassembly and bipolar prostheses assembly6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224368 A1Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Radial head surgical implant23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207340 A1Biopoly, LLC
- Prosthetic trial device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191668 A1Limacorporate S P.A.
- Tissue engineering scaffolds2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185024 A1Vestlandets Innovasjonsselskap AS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Expandable spinal implant and surgical method1,539US 5,059,193 ASpine-Tech, Inc. · 1991
- Surgical prosthetic implant for vertebrae1,527US 5,192,327 A1993
- Spinal implant1,401US 4,863,476 A1989
- Spinal implantation methods utilizing a middle expandable implant1,273US 5,390,683 A1995
- Intersomatic vertebral cage1,224US 5,554,191 ABiomat · 1996