A61B 17/320725
With radially expandable cutting or abrading elements
Official title: {with radially expandable cutting or abrading elements (A61B17/32075 takes precedence)}
A61B17/320725 (With radially expandable cutting or abrading elements) appears on 1,376 US grants and 1,753 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,376
- Published applications
- 1,753
- Assignees
- 403
- Inventors
- 1,688
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 22 | 42 |
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| 2004 | 24 | 58 |
| 2005 | 12 | 63 |
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| 2007 | 21 | 37 |
| 2008 | 19 | 53 |
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| 2018 | 50 | 81 |
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| 2020 | 97 | 87 |
| 2021 | 69 | 79 |
| 2022 | 72 | 78 |
| 2023 | 66 | 59 |
| 2024 | 63 | 64 |
| 2025 | 75 | 81 |
| 2026 | 40 | 60 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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By later US patents
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- Methods and apparatus for bypassing arterial obstructions and/or performing other transvascular procedures1,703US 6,190,353 B1TransVascular, Inc. · 2001
- Retrograde tissue splitter and method1,605US 5,449,355 AValleylab, Inc. · 1995
- Retrograde tissue splitter and method1,585US 5,797,906 AValleylab, Inc. · 1998