A61B 2017/00504
Tissue welding
Official title: {Tissue welding}
A61B2017/00504 (Tissue welding) appears on 230 US grants and 215 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 230
- Published applications
- 215
- Assignees
- 101
- Inventors
- 341
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ultrasonic energy device which varies pressure applied by clamp arm to provide threshold control pressure at a cut progression location18 Aug 2026US 12,708,427 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Mid-infrared laser-activated tissue sealing using biomaterials2 Jun 2026US 12,642,515 B2Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Ultrasonic surgical instrument with piezoelectric central lumen transducer21 Oct 2025US 12,446,913 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Localized fusion of native leaflets using activated adhesive23 Sep 2025US 12,419,622 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Temperature controlled ultrasonic surgical instruments11 Feb 2025US 12,220,143 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Mid-infrared laser-activated tissue sealing using biomaterials17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272434 A1Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Temperature controlled ultrasonic surgical instruments17 Jul 2025US 2025/0228585 A1Cilag GmbH International
- Localized fusion of native leaflets using activated adhesive27 Mar 2025US 2025/0099090 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Methods and devices for intracorporeal bonding of implants with thermal energy5 Dec 2024US 2024/0398448 A1P Tech, LLC
- Ultrasonic surgical instrument with piezoelectric central lumen transducer23 May 2024US 2024/0164802 A1Cilag GmbH International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hemostatic surgical cutting or stapling instrument3,257US 5,624,452 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1997
- Electrosurgical stapling device3,188US 5,735,848 AEthicon, Inc. · 1998
- Hemostatic surgical cutting or stapling instrument2,896US 5,716,366 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998
- Gastrointestinal approximating and tissue attaching device2,671US 5,411,508 AThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · 1995
- Electrosurgical hemostatic device2,626US 5,709,680 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998