A61B 5/287
Holders for multiple electrodes
Official title: Holders for multiple electrodes, e.g. electrode catheters for electrophysiological study [EPS]
A61B5/287 (Holders for multiple electrodes) appears on 2,603 US grants and 3,060 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 2,603
- Published applications
- 3,060
- Assignees
- 534
- Inventors
- 2,956
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 106 | 128 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and system for identifying disconnected catheter electrode6 Oct 2026US 12,751,659 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Flexible high-density mapping catheter29 Sep 2026US 12,745,943 B2St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Device for cardiac electrophysiology procedure15 Sep 2026US 12,734,355 B2
- Apparatuses, methods, and systems for reconfigurable three-dimensional mesostructures8 Sep 2026US 12,727,807 B2The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Deflectable medical probe8 Sep 2026US 12,728,232 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Mapping and navigation system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306006 A1Enchannel Medical, Ltd.
- Systems, devices, components and methods for detecting the locations of sources of cardiac rhythm disorders in a patient's heart1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294245 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- System and Method for Performing a Therapeutic and/or Diagnostic Function in a Patient1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294318 A1Biotronik SE & Co.KG
- A medical device system configured to determine a progression of parkinson's disease based on signals collected by a medical device implanted near the brain1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294326 A1Medtronic, Inc.
- Electrode with protected impedance reduction coating24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283525 A1St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ablation catheter positioning system1,928US 5,341,807 AAmerican Cardiac Ablation Co., Inc. · 1994
- Systems and methods for conducting electrophysiological testing using high-voltage energy pulses to stun tissue1,468US 6,679,269 B2SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2004
- System for determining the location and orientation of an invasive medical instrument1,444US 6,690,963 B2Biosense, Inc. · 2004
- Medical procedures and apparatus using intrabody probes1,425US 6,332,089 B1Biosense, Inc. · 2001
- User interface for tissue ablation system1,279US 8,657,814 B2Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC · 2014