A61B 17/320758
With a rotating cutting instrument
Official title: {with a rotating cutting instrument, e.g. motor driven (A61B17/320725, A61B17/32075 and A61B17/320783 take precedence; for removing intra-ocular material A61F9/00763; endoscopic rotatable cutting instruments A61B17/32002)}
A61B17/320758 (With a rotating cutting instrument) appears on 1,910 US grants and 2,111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 69 | 61 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Medical device29 Sep 2026US 12,746,032 B2Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Atherectomy system adapted to enable retrograde ablation15 Sep 2026US 12,733,952 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Tissue-removing catheter with adaptive torque control8 Sep 2026US 12,727,907 B2Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
- Atherectomy catheters having movable beads25 Aug 2026US 12,714,457 B2Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
- Echolucent intravascular cannula and echolucent locating of portions of intravascular medical devices25 Aug 2026US 12,714,826 B2Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
- Orbital Atherectomy Device with Exchangeable Burr System and Methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306127 A1Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG
- Interventional systems and associated devices and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306128 A1InterVene, Inc.
- Highly flexible atherectomy devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294468 A1Nipro Vascular Innovations Americas, Inc.
- Calibrated power-driven surgical cutting device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294469 A1The Spectranetics Corporation
- Rotary debulking atherectomy device with a crossing balloon24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283641 A1Cordis US Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Artificial heart valve and method and device for implanting the same2,287US 5,855,601 AThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · 1999
- Automated surgical system and apparatus2,024US 5,368,015 A1994
- Moisture-detecting shaft for use with an electro-mechanical surgical device1,765US 7,951,071 B2Tyco Healthcare Group LP · 2011
- Endovascular aortic valve replacement1,735US 5,370,685 AStanford Surgical Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- Apparatus for percutaneously performing myocardial revascularization having controlled cutting depth and methods of use1,732US 6,165,188 AAngioTrax, Inc. · 2000