A61B 2017/00632
Occluding a cavity, i.e. closing a blind opening
Official title: {Occluding a cavity, i.e. closing a blind opening}
A61B2017/00632 (Occluding a cavity, i.e. closing a blind opening) appears on 351 US grants and 535 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and device for left atrial appendage occlusion1,121US 6,152,144 AAppriva Medical, Inc. · 2000
- Method and apparatus for closing a body lumen1,026US 6,231,561 B1Appriva Medical, Inc. · 2001
- Robotic catheter system and methods926US 8,498,691 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2013
- Method and apparatus for closing intracardiac septal defects905US 6,290,674 B1Appriva Medical, Inc. · 2001
- Filter apparatus for ostium of left atrial appendage827US 6,652,556 B1Atritech, Inc. · 2003