A61F 2007/0054
Heating or cooling appliances for medical or therapeutic treatment of the human
Official title: {with a closed fluid circuit, e.g. hot water}
A61F2007/0054 (Heating or cooling appliances for medical or therapeutic treatment of the human) appears on 1,465 US grants and 1,921 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,465
- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 596
- Inventors
- 2,375
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 62 | 90 |
| 2025 | 67 | 101 |
| 2026 | 54 | 67 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Non-invasive cancer treatment29 Sep 2026US 12,746,408 B2Scientia Biotech S.L
- Apparatus for thermal therapy treatment of a selected region of the body of a human or of an animal and method of operating said apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,740,889 B2Hilotherm Holding AG
- System and method for extracorporeal temperature control22 Sep 2026US 12,741,073 B2Medivance Incorporated
- Methods of using ultrasound waves for sonodynamic therapy22 Sep 2026US 12,741,161 B2Alpheus Medical, Inc.
- Devices, systems and methods for treating the skin8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306292 A1HydraFacial LLC
- Heat transfer-based medical treatment systems, methods, and devices8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306293 A1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Device and Method for Nerve Block by Local Cooling to Room Temperature1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294678 A1University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Temperature control systems for a support surface1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294711 A1
- Temperature controlled mattress cover with zones24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283369 A1Eight Sleep Inc.
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- Less-invasive devices and methods for cardiac valve surgery803US 6,010,531 AHeartport, Inc. · 2000
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