A61B 2018/1472
For use with liquid electrolyte
Official title: {for use with liquid electrolyte, e.g. virtual electrodes}
A61B2018/1472 (For use with liquid electrolyte) appears on 963 US grants and 959 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 963
- Published applications
- 959
- Assignees
- 221
- Inventors
- 992
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Magnetically steerable irrigated ablation catheters, and systems and methods thereof19 May 2026US 12,629,202 B2Stereotaxis, Inc.
- Methods, systems, and apparatuses for tissue ablation using pulse shape designs3 Mar 2026US 12,564,436 B2Inter Science GmbH
- Biocompatible metal devices for delivering ablative energy17 Feb 2026US 12,551,264 B2
- Electrosurgical device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294521 A1Kylix B.V.
- Electrosurgical instrument and electrosurgical apparatus20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240596 A1Creo Medical Limited
- Methods and systems of electrosurgical coagulation devices13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232370 A1Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Irrigated balloon catheter for the ablation of tissue23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207253 A1Stockert GmbH
- Bipolar architectures for pfa catheters with irrigated electrode16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199004 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for surgical cutting2,184US 5,697,909 AArthroCare Corporation · 1997
- Lung treatment apparatus and method2,136US 6,770,070 B1R. ITA Medical Systems, Inc. · 2004
- Electrosurgical instrument2,134US 5,944,715 AGyrus Medical Limited · 1999
- Electrosurgical instrument and an electrosurgical electrode assembly2,131US 6,074,386 AGyrus Medical Limited · 2000
- Electrosurgical instrument2,061US 6,056,746 AGyrus Medical Limited · 2000