A61B 2017/00092
Using thermocouples
Official title: {using thermocouples}
A61B2017/00092 (Using thermocouples) appears on 425 US grants and 311 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Devices, systems, and methods facilitating fluid-assisted surgical tissue treatment18 Aug 2026US 12,708,395 B2Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
- Motor speed control circuits for surgical systems7 Jul 2026US 12,672,765 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Electronic lockout selections for a surgical system17 Mar 2026US 12,575,831 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Left-atrium-to-coronary-sinus shunt10 Mar 2026US 12,569,296 B2Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
- Method of hub communication, processing, display, and cloud analytics10 Mar 2026US 12,574,434 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Thermocouple for ultrasonic instrument30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114892 A1Covidien LP
- Method for smart energy device infrastructure23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108134 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Methods and devices for estimating tip-tissue coupling of an ablation catheter tip23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108297 A1St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Method of compressing tissue within a stapling device and simultaneously displaying the location of the tissue within the jaws2 Apr 2026US 2026/0090735 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Radio-Frequency Ablation and Direct Current Electroporation Catheters6 Nov 2025US 2025/0339201 A1St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Coagulating forceps2,401US 5,443,463 AVesta Medical, LLC · 1995
- Methods and apparatus for surgical cutting2,184US 5,697,909 AArthroCare Corporation · 1997
- Feedback control in an ultrasonic surgical instrument for improved tissue effects2,180US 6,454,781 B1Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2002
- Feedback control in an ultrasonic surgical instrument for improved tissue effects1,970US 7,108,695 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2006
- Temperature controlled ultrasonic surgical instruments1,418US 9,044,261 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2015