A61F 2002/30757
Made of a sheet covering the natural articular surface
Official title: {made of a sheet covering the natural articular surface, e.g. cap}
A61F2002/30757 (Made of a sheet covering the natural articular surface) appears on 96 US grants and 151 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 96
- Published applications
- 151
- Assignees
- 50
- Inventors
- 212
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2009 | 2 | 7 |
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| 2012 | 0 | 18 |
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| 2016 | 5 | 13 |
| 2017 | 7 | 4 |
| 2018 | 8 | 10 |
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| 2021 | 10 | 11 |
| 2022 | 5 | 8 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10 |
| 2024 | 8 | 10 |
| 2025 | 3 | 6 |
| 2026 | 5 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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