A61B 2017/3409
Including needle or instrument drives
Official title: {including needle or instrument drives}
A61B2017/3409 (Including needle or instrument drives) appears on 409 US grants and 608 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 409
- Published applications
- 608
- Assignees
- 291
- Inventors
- 1,083
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 24 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Tactile sensing and guidance system29 Sep 2026US 12,746,034 B2IntuiTap Medical, Inc.
- Needle breast biopsy system and method of use29 Sep 2026US 12,746,090 B2Hologic, Inc.
- Needle guide device for biopsy22 Sep 2026US 12,740,773 B2Medical Park Co., Ltd.
- Ultrasonic probe15 Sep 2026US 12,733,953 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Instrument feeding device and use of a spindle device in an instrument feeding device1 Sep 2026US 12,721,646 B2Isys Medizintechnik GmbH
- Ophthalmic injection robot and system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306295 A1Alcon Inc.
- Hair implanter device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294470 A1SAúDe ViáVel S.A.
- Systems and methods for implanting neural electrodes1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294563 A1William Marsh Rice University
- Image-guided robotic arm for inserting a penetrating member into a body lumen6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224308 A1Obvius Robotics, Inc.
- Method and device for transperineal prostate biopsy16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198908 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Biopsy system1,710US 6,712,773 B1Tyco Healthcare Group LP · 2004
- Biopsy system having a single use loading unit operable with a trocar driver, a knife driver and firing module1,586US 7,189,207 B2Tyco Healthcare Group LP · 2007
- Coaxial catheter system1,540US 7,766,894 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2010
- Apparatus for positioning a medical instrument1,363US 7,674,270 B2Laparocision, Inc · 2010
- System and methods for advancing a catheter1,348US 7,276,044 B2Stereotaxis, Inc. · 2007