A61B 17/2202
The ultrasound transducer being inside patient's body at the distal end of
Official title: {the ultrasound transducer being inside patient's body at the distal end of the catheter}
A61B17/2202 (The ultrasound transducer being inside patient's body at the distal end of) appears on 642 US grants and 946 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 642
- Published applications
- 946
- Assignees
- 254
- Inventors
- 1,167
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 14 | 38 |
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| 2019 | 46 | 58 |
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| 2023 | 37 | 56 |
| 2024 | 50 | 45 |
| 2025 | 53 | 84 |
| 2026 | 21 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lesion crossing shock wave catheter18 Aug 2026US 12,708,382 B2Shockwave Medical, Inc.
- System for treating occlusions in body lumens18 Aug 2026US 12,708,384 B2Shockwave Medical, Inc.
- Intravascular lithotripsy systems, devices and methods11 Aug 2026US 12,702,433 B2Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
- Shockwave balloon catheter system21 Jul 2026US 12,685,547 B2Shockwave Medical, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for treatment of intracranial hemorrhages7 Jul 2026US 12,673,154 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Targeting Microbubbles17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273061 A1California Institute of Technology
- Shock wave catheter and shock wave catheter system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248521 A1Shockwave Medical, Inc.
- Electrode design for directional lithotripsy catheters27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248523 A1Shockwave Medical, Inc.
- Balloon catheter and methods of use to reduce residual stenosis27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249057 A1Cagent Vascular, Inc.
- Systems, devices, and methods for treatment of target material in a body lumen with shock waves13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232336 A1Shockwave Medical, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Catheters for imaging, sensing electrical potentials, and ablating tissue1,725US 6,004,269 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1999
- Ultrasonic surgical instruments1,701US 8,430,898 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2013
- Catheters for imaging, sensing electrical potentials, and ablating tissue1,241US 5,588,432 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1996
- Heart ablation catheter with expandable electrode and method of coupling energy to an electrode on a catheter shaft1,204US 5,860,974 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1999
- Ablation catheter1,203US 5,100,423 AMedical Engineering & Development Institute, Inc. · 1992