A61B 2018/0066
Without feedback, i.e. open loop control
Official title: {without feedback, i.e. open loop control}
A61B2018/0066 (Without feedback, i.e. open loop control) appears on 524 US grants and 476 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 25 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Active electrosurgical instrument25 Aug 2026US 12,714,487 B2Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH
- Electrical analyzer assembly for intravascular lithotripsy device18 Aug 2026US 12,708,442 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Temperature measurement method, temperature measurement device, medical device system, and laser treatment method11 Aug 2026US 12,704,416 B2Olympus Corporation
- Catheter with flow balancing valve23 Jun 2026US 12,661,176 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Aesthetic method of biological structure treatment by magnetic field16 Jun 2026US 12,654,023 B2BTL Medical Solutions A. S.
- Methods and systems of electrosurgical coagulation devices13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232370 A1Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- System for optic-based filtered telemetry measurements30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215847 A1Covidien LP
- Systems and methods for lesion characterization in blood vessels23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207061 A1Eximo Medical Ltd.
- Endoscope laser-triggered suction automatic on/off23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207255 A1GYRUS ACMI INC. (d.b.a.Olympus Surgical Technologies America)
- Application of non-therapeutic waveforms with gradient sensing to predict pulsed field ablation (pfa) fields2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183059 A1Medtronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electrosurgical cutting tool2,411US 5,665,085 AMedical Scientific, Inc. · 1997
- Electrosurgical hand-held battery-operated instrument2,280US 6,039,734 AGyrus Medical Limited · 2000
- Methods and apparatus for surgical cutting2,184US 5,697,909 AArthroCare Corporation · 1997
- Electrosurgical instrument2,179US 6,325,799 B1Gyrus Medical Limited · 2001
- Electrosurgical apparatus2,159US 5,647,869 AGyrus Medical Limited · 1997