A61M 2025/0046
Coatings for improving slidability
Official title: {Coatings for improving slidability}
A61M2025/0046 (Coatings for improving slidability) appears on 675 US grants and 856 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 675
- Published applications
- 856
- Assignees
- 298
- Inventors
- 1,373
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 18 | 0 |
| 1998 | 28 | 0 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 11 |
| 2002 | 10 | 12 |
| 2003 | 10 | 12 |
| 2004 | 10 | 15 |
| 2005 | 3 | 15 |
| 2006 | 5 | 14 |
| 2007 | 5 | 17 |
| 2008 | 2 | 18 |
| 2009 | 18 | 22 |
| 2010 | 10 | 21 |
| 2011 | 20 | 28 |
| 2012 | 11 | 17 |
| 2013 | 12 | 28 |
| 2014 | 23 | 38 |
| 2015 | 22 | 45 |
| 2016 | 24 | 35 |
| 2017 | 29 | 52 |
| 2018 | 31 | 52 |
| 2019 | 40 | 42 |
| 2020 | 41 | 46 |
| 2021 | 38 | 52 |
| 2022 | 33 | 55 |
| 2023 | 39 | 54 |
| 2024 | 28 | 57 |
| 2025 | 31 | 50 |
| 2026 | 38 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Expandable sheath with fold6 Oct 2026US 12,752,077 B2ABIOMED, Inc.
- Implantable guide device29 Sep 2026US 12,746,089 B2Neurochase Technologies Limited
- Controllable expandable catheter29 Sep 2026US 12,746,365 B2St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion catheter22 Sep 2026US 12,741,088 B2Thomas Jefferson University
- Steerable guide wire and catheter with shape change in-situ15 Sep 2026US 12,734,335 B2Coraflo Ltd.
- Urinary catheter products with increased lubricity8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306792 A1Hollister Incorporated
- Medical device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273232 A1Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus and Methods for Clot Aspiration With Revolving Asymmetric Aspiration Zone10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263091 A1Dragon Vascular, Inc.
- UHMWPE Dip-Coated Tubes3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256992 A1Zeus Co., Ltd.
- Elongated medical device and method for producing elongated medical device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249041 A1Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Endovascular system for arresting the heart868US 5,766,151 AHeartport, Inc. · 1998
- Catheter for guide-wire tracking602US 4,739,768 ATarget Therapeutics, Inc. · 1988
- Vascular guiding catheter assembly and vascular dilating catheter assembly and a combination thereof and methods of making the same592US 4,323,071 AAdvanced Catheter Systems, Inc. · 1982
- Endovascular system for arresting the heart518US 5,814,016 AHeartport, Inc. · 1998
- Medical instruments that exhibit surface lubricity when wetted470US 5,670,558 ATerumo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997