A61M 11/04
Operated by the vapour pressure of the liquid to be sprayed or
Official title: operated by the vapour pressure of the liquid to be sprayed or atomised {(air-humidification, e.g. "room humidifiers" F24F6/00)}
A61M11/04 (Operated by the vapour pressure of the liquid to be sprayed or) appears on 2,475 US grants and 3,838 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 2,475
- Published applications
- 3,838
- Assignees
- 690
- Inventors
- 3,322
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 5 |
| 2002 | 11 | 17 |
| 2003 | 8 | 51 |
| 2004 | 34 | 70 |
| 2005 | 11 | 29 |
| 2006 | 54 | 34 |
| 2007 | 7 | 23 |
| 2008 | 21 | 40 |
| 2009 | 21 | 66 |
| 2010 | 19 | 47 |
| 2011 | 19 | 47 |
| 2012 | 28 | 41 |
| 2013 | 44 | 72 |
| 2014 | 41 | 99 |
| 2015 | 46 | 120 |
| 2016 | 53 | 141 |
| 2017 | 63 | 225 |
| 2018 | 140 | 301 |
| 2019 | 173 | 323 |
| 2020 | 216 | 386 |
| 2021 | 233 | 381 |
| 2022 | 242 | 297 |
| 2023 | 253 | 286 |
| 2024 | 310 | 345 |
| 2025 | 246 | 262 |
| 2026 | 114 | 130 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Evaporator device for an inhaler, and method for producing an inhaler6 Oct 2026US 12,751,485 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Hand-held inhalable vapor producing device and method6 Oct 2026US 12,752,064 B2
- Aerosol generating device with shield element and article29 Sep 2026US 12,745,796 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Aerosol spirometer and method of using same29 Sep 2026US 12,745,922 B2
- Mono- and bis-nitrosylated propanediols for therapeutic use29 Sep 2026US 12,746,215 B2Attgeno Bio
- Data capture across devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304088 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Aerosol-generating system with adjustable pump flow rate24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283251 A1Altria Client Services LLC
- Method for determining at least one parameter for the vaporization in an inhaler, and an inhaler24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284329 A1KöRber Technologies GmbH
- Surgical humidification system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284332 A1Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
- Vaporization assembly and electronic vaporization device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272004 A1Jiangmen Moore Technology., Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dispenser1,019US 5,894,841 APonwell Enterprises Limited · 1999
- Flavor-generating device934US 6,155,268 AJapan Tobacco Inc. · 2000
- Drug delivery articles utilizing electrical energy925US 4,922,901 AR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 1990
- Flavor delivery articles utilizing electrical energy896US 4,947,875 AR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 1990
- Dosing device to provide vaporized medicament to the lungs as a fine aerosol833US 4,735,217 AThe Procter & Gamble Company · 1988