A61F 2002/701
Operated by electrically controlled means
Official title: {operated by electrically controlled means, e.g. solenoids or torque motors}
A61F2002/701 (Operated by electrically controlled means) appears on 561 US grants and 742 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 561
- Published applications
- 742
- Assignees
- 242
- Inventors
- 1,090
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 1 | 7 |
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| 2006 | 5 | 28 |
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| 2008 | 9 | 13 |
| 2009 | 7 | 11 |
| 2010 | 7 | 34 |
| 2011 | 20 | 28 |
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| 2014 | 34 | 25 |
| 2015 | 23 | 58 |
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| 2017 | 34 | 39 |
| 2018 | 29 | 48 |
| 2019 | 56 | 53 |
| 2020 | 47 | 46 |
| 2021 | 34 | 45 |
| 2022 | 35 | 44 |
| 2023 | 38 | 31 |
| 2024 | 33 | 43 |
| 2025 | 26 | 33 |
| 2026 | 20 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Powered-on passive knee prosthesis system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,839 B2Vanderbilt University
- Method for controlling a damping modification15 Sep 2026US 12,734,048 B2Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH
- Systems and methods for reinforcement learning control of a powered prosthesis15 Sep 2026US 12,734,049 B2Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Robotic prosthetic foot having elastic body1 Sep 2026US 12,721,739 B2Hugo Dynamics
- Metacarpus element with volume for a hand prosthesis18 Aug 2026US 12,708,531 B2
- Unified controller for powered ankle assistive devices8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306341 A1
- Power transmission device and joint device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287046 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Robotic pronator17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276067 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Improved mechanical joints that include a compact, bypassable, single-spring or nested-spring wrap-spring clutch20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240666 A1
- Orthopaedic joint device, and method for producing same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224374 A1Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for controlling an externally powered prosthesis213US 5,888,213 AMotion Control, Inc. · 1999
- System and method for motion-controlled foot unit169US 7,431,737 B2Ossur Hf · 2008
- Prosthesis control system168US 5,893,891 AChas. A. Blatchford & Sons Limited · 1999
- Digitally-controlled artificial hand159US 4,246,661 AThe Boeing Company · 1981
- Electronically controlled prosthetic system157US 7,029,500 B22006