A61F 9/00745
Using mechanical vibrations
Official title: {using mechanical vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic}
A61F9/00745 (Using mechanical vibrations) appears on 890 US grants and 993 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Ophthalmic knife and methods of use29 Sep 2026US 12,746,156 B2New World Medical, Inc.
- Surgical handpiece for providing transverse and longitudinal motion to a surgical tip15 Sep 2026US 12,734,068 B2Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- Method and system for cataract tissue sensing11 Aug 2026US 12,702,589 B2Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- Robotic cataract surgery using focused ultrasound11 Aug 2026US 12,702,590 B2Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- Irrigation in a phacoemulsification system4 Aug 2026US 12,697,249 B2Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
- 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.
- Robotic system for performing cataract surgery30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215969 A1Alcon Inc.
- System for characterizing cataract density23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207045 A1Alcon Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical system providing automatic reconfiguration1,782US 5,997,528 ABausch & Lomb Surgical, Inc. · 1999
- 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
- Ultrasonic surgical instruments with control mechanisms1,397US 9,820,768 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017