A61M 13/003
Blowing gases other than for carrying powders
Official title: {Blowing gases other than for carrying powders, e.g. for inflating, dilating or rinsing}
A61M13/003 (Blowing gases other than for carrying powders) appears on 885 US grants and 1,202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 885
- Published applications
- 1,202
- Assignees
- 352
- Inventors
- 1,467
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 65 | 68 |
| 2025 | 67 | 57 |
| 2026 | 40 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Endoscopic vessel harvesting devices with conditioning of insufflation gas29 Sep 2026US 12,746,028 B2Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
- Oral phlegm extraction system and method of using same22 Sep 2026US 12,741,079 B2
- Insufflator with filter loading detection device22 Sep 2026US 12,741,106 B2Novanta Medical GmbH
- Medical systems and assemblies for delivering fluid22 Sep 2026US 12,741,107 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Balloon assisted containment of insufflated robotic/endoscopic operative field15 Sep 2026US 12,733,790 B2Bashour Family Innovations, LLC
- Fiber bragg grating for endoscopes8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305915 A1GYRUS ACMI INC. (d.b.a.Olympus Surgical Technologies America)
- An insufflator, an insufflating system and a method for insufflating a cavity in the body of a human or animal subject8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306757 A1Palliare Limited
- System and method for predicting insufflator bottle gas time remaining1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295180 A1Conmed Corporation
- Tissue retraction devices, systems, and methods24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283609 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Methods employing gaseous nitric oxide for inhibiting tumor growth24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284331 A1Beyond Air, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic surgical instruments with a fluid flow control system for irrigation, aspiration, and blowing2,107US 8,241,271 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2012
- Electrosurgical tubular trocar1,628US 5,221,281 AValleylab, Inc. · 1993
- Retrograde tissue splitter and method1,605US 5,449,355 AValleylab, Inc. · 1995
- Retrograde tissue splitter and method1,585US 5,797,906 AValleylab, Inc. · 1998
- Method and apparatus for detecting tube occlusion in argon electrosurgery system1,551US 5,908,402 AValleylab, Inc. · 1999