A61F 9/00736
Instruments for removal of intra-ocular material or intra-ocular injection
Official title: {Instruments for removal of intra-ocular material or intra-ocular injection, e.g. cataract instruments (A61F9/008 takes precedence)}
A61F9/00736 (Instruments for removal of intra-ocular material or intra-ocular injection) appears on 2,356 US grants and 2,677 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 2,356
- Published applications
- 2,677
- Assignees
- 543
- Inventors
- 2,429
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 13 | 0 |
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| 2021 | 125 | 153 |
| 2022 | 89 | 162 |
| 2023 | 115 | 146 |
| 2024 | 115 | 149 |
| 2025 | 127 | 127 |
| 2026 | 90 | 85 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Grasping structures for membrane removal6 Oct 2026US 12,751,861 B2Alcon Inc.
- Injection device with both linear and rotary independent motor drives29 Sep 2026US 12,746,152 B2Tel HaShomer Medical research Infrastructure and Service Ltd
- Ophthalmic knife and methods of use29 Sep 2026US 12,746,156 B2New World Medical, Inc.
- Ocular delivery systems and methods22 Sep 2026US 12,740,891 B2Sight Sciences, Inc.
- Occlusion detection in vacuum-based ophthalmic surgical systems22 Sep 2026US 12,741,078 B2Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Dynamically retractable stiffeners for surgical tools1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294682 A1Alcon Inc.
- Intraocular lens (iol) cutter for ophthalmic surgery and method of using same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294683 A1Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Hust
- Systems and methods for thermal monitoring during phacoemulsification surgery1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294684 A1Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- Surgical System Priming With Pressure Calibration Utilizing Handpiece Orientation24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283848 A1Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- System and methods for a cassette capture mechanism for phacoemulsification surgical applications17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272710 A1Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical system providing automatic reconfiguration1,782US 5,997,528 ABausch & Lomb Surgical, Inc. · 1999
- Endoscopic ultrasonic rotary electro-cauterizing aspirator1,612US 5,176,677 ASonokinetics Group · 1993
- Surgical handpiece1,523US 5,873,885 AStorz Instrument Company · 1999
- Magnetostrictive transducer1,518US 4,986,808 AValleylab, Inc. · 1991
- Angulated ultrasonic surgical handpieces and method for their production1,505US 4,634,419 ACooper LaserSonics, Inc. · 1987