A61M 2025/0079
Separate user-activated means
Official title: {Separate user-activated means, e.g. guidewires, guide tubes, balloon catheters or sheaths, for sealing off an orifice, e.g. a lumen or side holes, of a catheter}
A61M2025/0079 (Separate user-activated means) appears on 330 US grants and 357 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 330
- Published applications
- 357
- Assignees
- 181
- Inventors
- 691
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Medical devices with distal control15 Sep 2026US 12,734,334 B2MicroNovus, LLC
- Systems, devices and methods for dispensing flowable hemostats that incorporate safety mechanisms for preventing air embolisms1 Sep 2026US 12,721,967 B2Ethicon, Inc.
- Internal balloon sheath7 Jul 2026US 12,673,190 B2ABIOMED, Inc.
- Method of converting a femoral venous cannula26 May 2026US 12,636,419 B2enableCV, LLC
- Medical systems, devices, and related methods21 Apr 2026US 12,605,151 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Diffusion catheter systems for delivery of fluid-based therapies30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216474 A1Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Automated arterial blood preservation and collection system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207103 A1Mune Co., Ltd.
- Steerable and/or Radially Asymmetric Intrasaccular Aneurysm Occlusion Devices16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198930 A1Aneuclose LLC
- Agent delivery catheter with micropore design25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174993 A1Precision NeuroMed Inc.
- Interventional medical device with balloon-actuated cover21 May 2026US 2026/0137912 A1Medtronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electro-coagulation and ablation and other electrotherapeutic treatments of body tissue1,344US 5,403,311 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1995
- Emboli protection system532US 6,485,500 B1Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · 2002
- Cerebral protection during carotid endarterectomy and downstream vascular protection during other surgeries514US 5,876,367 AEmbol-X, Inc. · 1999
- Methods and systems for treating ischemia348US 6,295,990 B1Salient Interventional Systems, Inc. · 2001
- Retroperfusion catheter apparatus and method341US 5,908,407 ANeuroperfusion, Inc. · 1999