A61B 2018/0243
Cooling of the hot side of the junction
Official title: {cooling of the hot side of the junction, e.g. heat sink}
A61B2018/0243 (Cooling of the hot side of the junction) appears on 67 US grants and 90 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ablation probes including flexible circuits for heating and sensing7 Apr 2026US 12,594,113 B2Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
- Cryoablation catheter assembly, cryoablation system and method24 Mar 2026US 12,582,456 B2Afreeze GmbH
- Cryogenic therapy systems and methods30 Dec 2025US 12,508,062 B2Pacira CryoTech, Inc.
- Drive device13 May 2025US 12,295,638 B2Olympus Corporation
- Cooled bipolar radio-frequency ablation probe11 Mar 2025US 12,245,806 B2Medtronic Holding Company SàRl
- Closed-loop cryoablation system and method5 Mar 2026US 2026/0060738 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Radiofrequency ablation electrode, use thereof and radiofrequency ablation system4 Sep 2025US 2025/0275805 A1Mianyang Lide Electronics Co., Ltd
- Drive device31 Jul 2025US 2025/0241700 A1Olympus Corporation
- Ocular region heat transfer devices and associated systems and methods5 Jun 2025US 2025/0177195 A1Bluexthermal, Inc.
- Multi-applicator system and method for body contouring1 May 2025US 2025/0134573 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cluster ablation electrode system401US 6,530,922 B2Sherwood Services AG · 2003
- Apparatus and methods for procedures related to the electrophysiology of the heart348US 5,967,976 ANovoste Corporation · 1999
- Ablation probe with peltier effect thermal control276US 7,238,184 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2007
- Electronic cryogenic surgical probe apparatus and method234US 5,207,674 A1993
- Cryoprobe based on a peltier module229US 6,017,337 A2000