A61B 17/3474
Insufflating needles
Official title: {Insufflating needles, e.g. Veress needles}
A61B17/3474 (Insufflating needles) appears on 970 US grants and 1,099 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 970
- Published applications
- 1,099
- Assignees
- 274
- Inventors
- 1,494
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 50 | 39 |
| 2026 | 26 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Endoscopic vessel harvesting devices with conditioning of insufflation gas29 Sep 2026US 12,746,028 B2Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
- Injection needle with endoscope for regenerative medicine29 Sep 2026US 12,746,037 B2Psipz LLC
- Surgical access port8 Sep 2026US 12,727,912 B2Applied Medical Resources Corporation
- Accessory for arranging a surgical instrument within a cannula shaft8 Sep 2026US 12,727,915 B2Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
- Cannula with sensors to measure patient bodywall forces25 Aug 2026US 12,714,460 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Devices and methods for tension pneumothorax treatment1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294476 A1MEDPACK Devices L.L.C.
- Method and system for measuring pressure in a body cavity17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272505 A1Lexion Medical, LLC
- Hip joint device and method3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256593 A1
- Prostate cancer lesion targeting and vapor needle tip tracking for prostate biopsy and vapor therapy30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215834 A1
- Trocar Support23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207223 A1Cilag GmbH International
Most cited
By later US patents
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- Retrograde tissue splitter and method1,605US 5,449,355 AValleylab, Inc. · 1995
- Surgical instruments with fluid management system1,587US 9,283,045 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2016
- Retrograde tissue splitter and method1,585US 5,797,906 AValleylab, Inc. · 1998
- Tissue interrogating device and methods1,518US 5,769,791 ASextant Medical Corporation · 1998