A61B 17/32075
Pullback cutting
Official title: {Pullback cutting; combined forward and pullback cutting, e.g. with cutters at both sides of the plaque}
A61B17/32075 (Pullback cutting) appears on 330 US grants and 354 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 354
- Assignees
- 157
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Atherectomy device having trapping and excising means for removal of plaque from the aorta and other arteries1,177US 5,662,671 AEmbol-X, Inc. · 1997
- Surgical cutting instrument1,132US 9,386,985 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
- Surgical apparatus for the excision of vein valves in situ991US 5,047,041 A1991