A61B 2018/1465
Deformable electrodes
Official title: {Deformable electrodes}
A61B2018/1465 (Deformable electrodes) appears on 408 US grants and 573 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 408
- Published applications
- 573
- Assignees
- 162
- Inventors
- 827
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 17 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Flexible high-density mapping catheter29 Sep 2026US 12,745,943 B2St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Medical device and medical system29 Sep 2026US 12,746,055 B2Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Bi-polar surgical instrument1 Sep 2026US 12,721,671 B2Stryker Corporation
- Electrode assembly including plated emitters11 Aug 2026US 12,702,468 B2Stryker Corporation
- System and method of unipolar PFA21 Jul 2026US 12,685,589 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- A rapidly deployable biomedical emf emitting device and methods of use8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306161 A1
- Catheters and methods for endovascular treatment with electrodes8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306165 A1TVA Medical, Inc.
- Methods and systems for treating one or more metabolic conditions of a patient1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294527 A1Fractyl Health, Inc.
- Methods and devices for ablation of tissue3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256510 A1AtriCure, Inc.
- Balloon electrode catheter, balloon electrode assembly, and flexible circuit for balloon electrode assembly13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232372 A1EnChannel Medical Guangzhou Inc.
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- Coagulating forceps2,401US 5,443,463 AVesta Medical, LLC · 1995
- Surgical instruments and end effectors therefor1,693US 8,685,020 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014
- Systems and methods for conducting electrophysiological testing using high-voltage energy pulses to stun tissue1,468US 6,679,269 B2SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2004
- Method of retracting heart tissue in closed-chest heart surgery using endo-scopic retraction1,331US 5,613,937 AHeartport, Inc. · 1997
- Method and apparatus for thoracoscopic intracardiac procedures1,216US 5,797,960 A1998