A61F 2002/5003
Having damping means
Official title: {having damping means, e.g. shock absorbers}
A61F2002/5003 (Having damping means) appears on 564 US grants and 636 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for controlling a damping modification15 Sep 2026US 12,734,048 B2Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH
- Robotic prosthetic foot having elastic body1 Sep 2026US 12,721,739 B2Hugo Dynamics
- Prosthetic foot11 Aug 2026US 12,702,571 B2Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa
- Automated hand21 Jul 2026US 12,685,652 B2Taska Prosthetics Limited
- Automated hand14 Jul 2026US 12,678,302 B2Taska Prosthetics Limited
- Hydraulic dampener for a prosthetic device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263243 A1Ossur Iceland Ehf
- Improved mechanical joints that include a compact, bypassable, single-spring or nested-spring wrap-spring clutch20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240666 A1
- Anatomically aligned prosthetic foot18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165854 A1Loma Linda University
- Prosthetic foot with removable flexible members21 May 2026US 2026/0137529 A1Ossur Iceland Ehf
- Self-adjusting socket for lower limb prosthesis7 May 2026US 2026/0124050 A1Vessl Prosthetics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for controlling artificial knee joint action in an above knee prosthesis315US 5,571,205 A1996
- Self-adjusting prosthetic ankle apparatus247US 6,443,993 B12002
- Speed-adaptive and patient-adaptive prosthetic knee220US 6,610,101 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003
- System for controlling artificial knee joint action in an above knee prosthesis196US 5,383,939 A1995
- Shoe and foot prosthesis with bending beam spring structures186US 6,029,374 A2000