A61M 2025/0064
Which become stiffer or softer when heated
Official title: {which become stiffer or softer when heated}
A61M2025/0064 (Which become stiffer or softer when heated) appears on 65 US grants and 77 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 77
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 125
- Latest grant
- 28 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
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- Systems and methods for energy delivery14 Mar 2024US 2024/0081906 A1Neuwave Medical, Inc.
- Instrument for a medicament delivery device that acts as needle and cannula16 Nov 2023US 2023/0364329 A1Insulet Corporation
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-layer cannula structure398US 4,994,047 AMenlo Care, Inc. · 1991
- Catheter for delivery of energy to a surgical site306US 6,258,086 B1Oratec Interventions, Inc. · 2001
- Softening catheter243US 4,846,812 AMenlo Care, Inc. · 1989
- Catheter tubing of controlled in vivo softening229US 5,226,899 ABecton, Dickinson and Company · 1993
- Guide catheter with shape memory retention190US 5,662,621 ASciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 1997