A61M 2025/0163
Looped catheters
Official title: {Looped catheters}
A61M2025/0163 (Looped catheters) appears on 148 US grants and 156 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 148
- Published applications
- 156
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 302
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 4 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 |
| 2003 | 4 | 5 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 7 | 9 |
| 2007 | 3 | 11 |
| 2008 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009 | 2 | 6 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12 |
| 2012 | 6 | 8 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 8 |
| 2018 | 6 | 4 |
| 2019 | 7 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 12 |
| 2021 | 6 | 12 |
| 2022 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 | 8 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Couplers and assemblies thereof for rapidly insertable central catheters8 Sep 2026US 12,728,236 B2Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Catheter device for repositioning or explanting an implantable medical device3 Feb 2026US 12,539,396 B2Biotronik SE & Co.KG
- Medical device delivery member with flexible stretch resistant distal portion16 Dec 2025US 12,496,431 B2DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
- Medical device delivery member with flexible stretch resistant distal portion28 Oct 2025US 12,453,836 B2DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
- Flexible tip for transvalvular circulatory support device26 Aug 2025US 12,397,146 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Double loop lasso with single puller wire for bi-directional actuation2 Apr 2026US 2026/0090835 A1Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Methods and apparatuses for reducing curvature of a colon22 May 2025US 2025/0160620 A1Neptune Medical Inc.
- Embolic devices for occluding body lumens3 Apr 2025US 2025/0107805 A1Stryker Corporation
- A multi-electrode pulsed field ablation catheter for creation of spot lesions13 Mar 2025US 2025/0082395 A1
- Locking mechanism for looped catheter30 Jan 2025US 2025/0032756 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Catheter distal assembly with pull wires746US 5,910,129 AEP Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Branched structures for supporting multiple electrode elements600US 6,071,279 AEP Technologies, Inc. · 2000
- Epicardial mapping and ablation catheter505US 8,287,532 B2Biosense Webster, Inc. · 2012
- Loop electrode array mapping and ablation catheter for cardiac chambers497US 5,555,883 A1996
- Loop structure having improved tissue contact capability362US 6,217,528 B1SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2001