A61B 2018/1838
Dipole antennas
Official title: {Dipole antennas}
A61B2018/1838 (Dipole antennas) appears on 197 US grants and 243 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 197
- Published applications
- 243
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 162
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 | 13 |
| 2012 | 8 | 19 |
| 2013 | 7 | 14 |
| 2014 | 13 | 18 |
| 2015 | 23 | 17 |
| 2016 | 20 | 27 |
| 2017 | 15 | 18 |
| 2018 | 18 | 17 |
| 2019 | 11 | 12 |
| 2020 | 9 | 13 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 |
| 2022 | 8 | 7 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7 |
| 2025 | 5 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 6 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Fluid-cooled energy-delivery device9 Jun 2026US 12,648,812 B2Covidien LP
- Water-cooled flexible microwave ablation probe7 Apr 2026US 12,594,120 B2Coswave Medical Inc.
- Fluid-cooled low-profile microwave ablation probe with spherical ablation zone31 Mar 2026US 12,588,948 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Electrosurgical apparatus for delivering RF and/or microwave energy into biological tissue17 Mar 2026US 12,575,883 B2Creo Medical Limited
- Electrosurgical instrument4 Nov 2025US 12,458,426 B2Creo Medical Limited
- Ablation zone visualization for multiple probes30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215833 A1Neuwave Medical, Inc.
- Mitigating needle tract seeding in ablation procedures30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215839 A1Neuwave Medical, Inc.
- Combination rf and microwave energy ablation device30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114917 A1Neuwave Medical, Inc.
- Cooled antennas for spherical ablation26 Feb 2026US 2026/0053560 A1Neuwave Medical, Inc.
- Microwave ablation probe tip with centering tube19 Feb 2026US 2026/0047885 A1Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Devices and methods for cooling microwave antennas247US 7,311,703 B2Vivant Medical, Inc. · 2007
- Device and method for preventing restenosis232US 6,223,085 B1Urologix, Inc. · 2001
- Dual antenna microwave resection and ablation device, system and method of use227US 9,028,476 B2Covidien LP · 2015
- High-strength microwave antenna assemblies209US 6,878,147 B2Vivant Medical, Inc. · 2005
- High-strength microwave antenna assemblies and methods of use133US 7,128,739 B2Vivant Medical, Inc. · 2006