A61M 2025/0065
Which become stiffer or softer when becoming wet or humid
Official title: {which become stiffer or softer when becoming wet or humid, e.g. immersed within a liquid}
A61M2025/0065 (Which become stiffer or softer when becoming wet or humid) appears on 15 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 15
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 12
- Inventors
- 33
- Latest grant
- 25 Oct 2022
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Softening catheter243US 4,846,812 AMenlo Care, Inc. · 1989
- Catheter with selectively rigidified portion117US 4,773,901 AC. R. Bard, Inc. · 1988
- Adjustable stiffness catheter66US 8,303,570 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2012
- Flexible composite intubation tube62US 4,798,597 A1989
- Catheter for introduction into body cavities49US 4,306,563 AFirma Pfrimmer & Co. Pharmazeutische Werke Erlangen GmbH · 1981