A61B 2018/0097
Cleaning probe surfaces
Official title: {Cleaning probe surfaces}
A61B2018/0097 (Cleaning probe surfaces) appears on 126 US grants and 98 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 126
- Published applications
- 98
- Assignees
- 67
- Inventors
- 250
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Catheter with composite construction26 May 2026US 12,636,076 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Electrosurgical instrument31 Mar 2026US 12,588,941 B2Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH
- Surgical instrument with various alignment features and method for improved disassembly and assembly3 Mar 2026US 12,564,417 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Medical instruments for performing minimally-invasive procedures2 Dec 2025US 12,484,955 B2Lumendi Ltd.
- Insulating grips for minimally invasive surgical instruments3 Jun 2025US 12,318,128 B2Microline Surgical, Inc.
- Catheter with composite construction24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283687 A1Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Electrosurgical instrument and method of detecting tissue accumulation on end effector29 Jan 2026US 2026/0026863 A1
- Cryotherapy device29 Aug 2024US 2024/0285328 A1Vessi Medical Ltd.
- Methods of separating dissimilar materials with electrosurgical electrodes and systems and methods including same23 May 2024US 2024/0164832 A1Stanley IP LLC
- Insulating grips for minimally invasive surgical instruments7 Mar 2024US 2024/0074809 A1Microline Surgical, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Extendable electrocautery surgery apparatus and method606US 5,035,695 A1991
- Bipolar electrosurgical scalpel with paired loop electrodes597US 5,282,799 AEverest Medical Corporation · 1994
- Electrosurgical device and method461US 5,460,629 AAdvanced Surgical, Inc. · 1995
- Flexible circuits for electrosurgical instrument378US 10,555,769 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2020
- Intralumenal contact sensor362US 6,942,657 B2CardioFocus, Inc. · 2005