A61M 2025/0293
Catheter, guide wire or the like with means for holding, centering, anchoring
Official title: {Catheter, guide wire or the like with means for holding, centering, anchoring or frictionally engaging the device within an artificial lumen, e.g. tube}
A61M2025/0293 (Catheter, guide wire or the like with means for holding, centering, anchoring) appears on 241 US grants and 323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 241
- Published applications
- 323
- Assignees
- 158
- Inventors
- 560
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 9 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Slip ring anchor22 Sep 2026US 12,741,151 B2Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
- Steerable guide wire and catheter with shape change in-situ15 Sep 2026US 12,734,335 B2Coraflo Ltd.
- Anchor instrumentation and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,721,973 B2INTERRAD Medical, Inc.
- Devices, systems, and methods for delivering catheters or other medical devices to locations within a patient's body28 Jul 2026US 12,690,993 B2Vasoinnovations, Inc.
- Internal balloon sheath7 Jul 2026US 12,673,190 B2ABIOMED, Inc.
- Securing A Catheter Device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263750 A1INTERRAD Medical, Inc.
- Hemostasis valve16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198941 A1Imperative Care, Inc.
- Expandable sheath21 May 2026US 2026/0137517 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Anchoring an intravenous cannula14 May 2026US 2026/0131116 A1INTERRAD Medical, Inc.
- Mechanical circulatory support system with repositioning sheath26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083956 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Radially expandable fixation member1,042US 5,071,407 ASchneider (USA) Inc. · 1991
- Implantable drug delivery catheter system with capillary interface843US 6,471,689 B1Thomas Jefferson University · 2002
- Radially expandable body implantable device485US 5,496,277 ASchneider (USA) Inc. · 1996
- Catheter with retractable anchor mechanism450US 5,344,439 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1994
- Medical grafting methods427US 5,976,178 AVascular Science Inc. · 1999