A61B 2018/1475
Electrodes retractable in or deployable from a housing
Official title: {Electrodes retractable in or deployable from a housing}
A61B2018/1475 (Electrodes retractable in or deployable from a housing) appears on 1,376 US grants and 2,131 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,376
- Published applications
- 2,131
- Assignees
- 512
- Inventors
- 2,517
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 66 | 104 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- High-frequency ablation medical device for pancreatic cystic lesion, having self-expanding spherical electrode embedded therein17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272539 A1The Asan Foundation
- Basket assembly, spines, and electrodes for a catheter, and methods of the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272549 A1Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
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- Methods and apparatus for bypassing arterial obstructions and/or performing other transvascular procedures1,703US 6,190,353 B1TransVascular, Inc. · 2001
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