A61B 2218/001
Details of surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of
Official title: having means for irrigation and/or aspiration of substances to and/or from the surgical site (A61B2018/00029 and A61B2018/1472 take precedence)
A61B2218/001 (Details of surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of) appears on 4,338 US grants and 5,508 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2025 | 315 | 302 |
| 2026 | 201 | 179 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Kidney stone treatment system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,728 B2Calyxo, Inc.
- Smoke evacuation tube and telescopic smoke evacuation scalpel6 Oct 2026US 12,751,760 B2Zhejiang Shuyou Surgical Instrument Co., Ltd.
- Catheter with flex circuit distal assembly6 Oct 2026US 12,751,763 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Ablation system with graphical user interface6 Oct 2026US 12,754,665 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Surgical suction device that uses positive pressure gas29 Sep 2026US 12,745,935 B2Conmed Corporation
- Flow device for surgical smoke evacuating systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306157 A1Covidien LP
- Energy treatment medical devices, systems, and energy treatment methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306168 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Catheter with improved temperature response8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306169 A1Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Membrane removal device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306299 A1Alcon Inc.
- Surgical blade instruments with condensable vapor delivery1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294506 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electrosurgical jaw structure for controlled energy delivery2,489US 6,770,072 B1SurgRx, Inc. · 2004
- Electrosurgical instrument2,373US 6,926,716 B2SurgRx, Inc. · 2005
- Surgical tool2,269US 5,395,312 A1995
- 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