A61F 2002/5066
Muscles
Official title: {Muscles}
A61F2002/5066 (Muscles) appears on 79 US grants and 99 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 79
- Published applications
- 99
- Assignees
- 50
- Inventors
- 200
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 6 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 6 |
| 2019 | 5 | 6 |
| 2020 | 3 | 11 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8 |
| 2022 | 6 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 | 10 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Covering shell for a prosthesis and limb prosthesis8 Sep 2026US 12,728,022 B2Chabloz OrthopéDie
- Mechanoneural interfaces for prosthetic control30 Jun 2026US 12,667,471 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Contractile and extensile fluidic artificial muscle actuator13 Jan 2026US 12,521,870 B2Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Systems and methods for approximating musculoskeletal dynamics30 Dec 2025US 12,508,138 B2West Virginia University
- Scalable microfluidic double-helix weave architecture for 3D-printable biomimetic artificial muscles18 Nov 2025US 12,472,080 B2The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Mechanoneural interfaces for prosthetic control24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283823 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Methods and mechanisms for maintaining an electro-active polymer in a pre-stretch state and uses thereof23 Oct 2025US 2025/0325408 A1ElastiMed Ltd.
- Contractile and extensile fluidic artificial muscle actuator24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128405 A1Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Artificial muscles, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same5 Sep 2024US 2024/0293220 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Artificial muscle actuator device13 Jun 2024US 2024/0189119 A1Moumus Consulting Group LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Prosthetic, orthotic, and other rehabilitative robotic assistive devices actuated by smart materials195US 6,379,393 B1Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · 2002
- Soft actuators and artificial muscles184US 6,109,852 AUniversity of New Mexico · 2000
- Parallel linkage and artificial joint device using the same127US 7,118,601 B2Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2006
- Ionic polymer sensors and actuators110US 6,475,639 B22002
- Foot prosthesis with resilient multi-axial ankle104US 7,347,877 B2Ossur Hf · 2008