A61B 2017/00778
Operations on blood vessels
Official title: {Operations on blood vessels (A61B2017/22097, A61B2017/320741 take precedence)}
A61B2017/00778 (Operations on blood vessels) appears on 1,609 US grants and 2,239 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,609
- Published applications
- 2,239
- Assignees
- 548
- Inventors
- 2,624
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2022 | 98 | 118 |
| 2023 | 98 | 94 |
| 2024 | 118 | 128 |
| 2025 | 101 | 147 |
| 2026 | 59 | 113 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Venous valve apparatuses and methods for controlling blood flow22 Sep 2026US 12,740,788 B2
- Magnetically driven crossing tools for arterial and venous occlusions8 Sep 2026US 12,727,896 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Flexible tubular spring structure, and scoring balloon catheter equipped therewith8 Sep 2026US 12,728,239 B2Nu-Life Consulting Pte Ltd
- Splined access aid for aspiration catheters1 Sep 2026US 12,721,640 B2Neuravi Limited
- Cardiac leaflet coapters1 Sep 2026US 12,721,727 B2Mtex Cardio AG
- Body lumen wall invagination8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306101 A1Append Medical Ltd.
- Cyclic aspiration system producing a cyclic aspiration pressure waveform having a fluid replenishment system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306118 A1Neuravi Limited
- Methods and apparatus for plaque disruption8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306119 A1Elixir Medical Corporation
- Catheter apparatus and methods for endoluminal intervention8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306121 A1Julier Medical AG
- Systems and methods for endoluminal valve creation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306131 A1InterVene, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic arm DLUs for performing surgical tasks2,751US 6,231,565 B1United States Surgical Corporation · 2001
- Robotic arm DLUs for performing surgical tasks1,983US 6,827,712 B2United States Surgical Corporation · 2004
- Method of securing a graft using a graft fixation device1,787US 6,436,110 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2002
- Automated annular plication for mitral valve repair1,756US 6,913,608 B2Viacor, Inc. · 2005
- Graft fixation device combination1,687US 6,402,766 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2002