A61B 2010/045
Needles
Official title: {Needles (pointed biopsy devices with vacuum aspiration A61B10/0283)}
A61B2010/045 (Needles) appears on 480 US grants and 742 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 480
- Published applications
- 742
- Assignees
- 250
- Inventors
- 1,205
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2006 | 2 | 22 |
| 2007 | 4 | 8 |
| 2008 | 1 | 9 |
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| 2010 | 7 | 14 |
| 2011 | 4 | 7 |
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| 2015 | 18 | 59 |
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| 2024 | 47 | 42 |
| 2025 | 30 | 31 |
| 2026 | 23 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Biopsy device and specimen collection method6 Oct 2026US 12,751,702 B2Olympus Corporation
- Internally barbed biopsy stylet and system29 Sep 2026US 12,745,992 B2Cook Medical Technologies LLC
- Multi-compartment syringe with pump mechanism29 Sep 2026US 12,746,333 B2Regents of the University of Minnesota
- Image guided biopsy needle15 Sep 2026US 12,733,915 B2Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Systems and methods for dynamic trajectory control18 Aug 2026US 12,708,403 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Systems and methods for medical procedures using optical coherence tomography sensing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305944 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Sheaths for needle delivery8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306752 A1GYRUS ACMI INC. (d.b.a.Olympus Surgical Technologies America)
- Superelastic biopsy shaft and steerable needle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294409 A1Auris Health, Inc.
- Puncture device, puncture system, operation method of puncture device, and usage method of guidewire1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294477 A1Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Persistent display of biopsy targets17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272403 A1Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Endoscopic tissue collecting instrument427US 6,572,563 B2PENTAX Corporation · 2003
- Endoscopic tissue collecting instrument396US 6,656,132 B1Pentex Corporation · 2003
- System and method for treating select tissue in a living being340US 5,845,646 A1998
- Flexible tip medical instrument336US 6,419,641 B1Promex, Inc. · 2002
- Multiple biopsy sampling device292US 6,142,957 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 2000