A61L 27/3852
Cartilage
Official title: {Cartilage, e.g. meniscus}
A61L27/3852 (Cartilage) appears on 330 US grants and 563 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61L- Granted patents
- 330
- Published applications
- 563
- Assignees
- 302
- Inventors
- 999
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 13 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 9 |
| 2002 | 11 | 29 |
| 2003 | 15 | 21 |
| 2004 | 12 | 35 |
| 2005 | 7 | 29 |
| 2006 | 8 | 23 |
| 2007 | 4 | 32 |
| 2008 | 9 | 25 |
| 2009 | 9 | 19 |
| 2010 | 17 | 40 |
| 2011 | 16 | 28 |
| 2012 | 19 | 18 |
| 2013 | 12 | 12 |
| 2014 | 24 | 21 |
| 2015 | 16 | 17 |
| 2016 | 11 | 23 |
| 2017 | 12 | 18 |
| 2018 | 11 | 18 |
| 2019 | 9 | 23 |
| 2020 | 15 | 16 |
| 2021 | 10 | 18 |
| 2022 | 8 | 27 |
| 2023 | 9 | 16 |
| 2024 | 10 | 20 |
| 2025 | 9 | 12 |
| 2026 | 8 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hydrogel systems for skeletal interfacial tissue regeneration applied to epiphyseal growth plate repair29 Sep 2026US 12,746,258 B2University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Tissue and organ replacements and methods of making thereof18 Aug 2026US 12,708,697 B2TDBT IP Inc.
- Engineered cartilage11 Aug 2026US 12,702,730 B2Stemcellago Inc.
- Injectable off-the-shelf cartilage, tendon, and ligament repair compositions and methods of use7 Apr 2026US 12,595,463 B2Epibone, Inc.
- Repair and/or reconstruction of invertebral discs24 Feb 2026US 12,558,382 B2Mesoblast, Inc.
- Repair and/or reconstruction of invertebral discs20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240918 A1Mesoblast, Inc.
- Alk5 inhibitors for efficient derivation of mesenchymal stem cells from embryonic stem cells20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242738 A1Scripps Health
- Injectable off-the- shelf cartilage, tendon, and ligament repair compositions and methods of use13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234550 A1Epibone, Inc.
- Transglutaminase mediated high molecular weight hyaluronan hydrogels6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224775 A1ETH Zurich
- Tissue and organ replacements and methods of making thereof30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216402 A1TDBT IP Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Foam composite for the repair or regeneration of tissue1,549US 6,306,424 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2001
- Cartilage repair apparatus and method1,489US 7,361,195 B2DePuy Products, Inc. · 2008
- Plasma protein matrices and methods for their preparation1,406US 7,009,039 B2ProChon Biotech Ltd. · 2006
- Unitary surgical device and method1,255US 7,163,563 B2DePuy Products, Inc. · 2007
- Porous extracellular matrix scaffold and method984US 8,025,896 B2DePuy Products, Inc. · 2011