A61M 16/0672
Nasal cannula assemblies for oxygen therapy
Official title: {Nasal cannula assemblies for oxygen therapy}
A61M16/0672 (Nasal cannula assemblies for oxygen therapy) appears on 970 US grants and 1,427 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 970
- Published applications
- 1,427
- Assignees
- 409
- Inventors
- 2,039
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 63 | 85 |
| 2026 | 52 | 60 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Headgear assemblies and interface assemblies with headgear29 Sep 2026US 12,746,360 B2Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
- Breathing gas delivery pipe, nasal catheter, and ventilation therapy device22 Sep 2026US 12,741,114 B2Bmc Medical Co., Ltd.
- Ventilator system25 Aug 2026US 12,714,812 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Anti-kink and ergonomic nasal cannula device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,816 B2
- Nasal interface25 Aug 2026US 12,714,817 B2Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
- Nasal/oral cannula system and manufacturing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305976 A1Masimo Sweden AB
- Methods and apparatus for high gas flow8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306769 A1Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
- Patient interface including flow generator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306775 A1ResMed Pty Ltd
- Patient interface1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295190 A1ResMed Pty Ltd
- Medicament delivery system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295191 A1Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Control device for supplying supplemental respiratory oxygen1,154US 6,371,114 B1Minnesota Innovative Technologies & Instruments Corporation · 2002
- Control of respiratory oxygen delivery1,146US 6,186,142 B1Minnesota Innovative Technologies & Instruments Corporation (MITI) · 2001
- Automated control and conservation of supplemental respiratory oxygen1,135US 6,532,958 B1Minnesota Innovative Technologies & Instruments Corporation · 2003
- Control of supplemental respiratory oxygen1,117US 6,561,187 B2Minnesota Innovative Technologies & Instruments Corporation · 2003
- Control of supplemental respiratory oxygen1,080US 7,331,343 B2Minnesota Innovative Technologies & Instruments Corporation (MITI) · 2008