A61M 2025/1081
Having sheaths or the like for covering the balloon but not forming
Official title: {having sheaths or the like for covering the balloon but not forming a permanent part of the balloon, e.g. retractable, dissolvable or tearable sheaths}
A61M2025/1081 (Having sheaths or the like for covering the balloon but not forming) appears on 539 US grants and 659 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 539
- Published applications
- 659
- Assignees
- 212
- Inventors
- 1,001
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 8 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Eluting perfusion catheters and related methods6 Oct 2026US 12,752,087 B2Teleflex Life Sciences Limited
- Drug coated balloon1 Sep 2026US 12,721,977 B2Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
- Internal balloon sheath7 Jul 2026US 12,673,190 B2ABIOMED, Inc.
- Endoscope stabilizing catheter26 May 2026US 12,636,472 B2C2Dx, Inc.
- Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods19 May 2026US 12,629,270 B2W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
- Using minimally invasive systems for hemostasis of tissue24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283620 A1PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation
- Pfas-free medical device protectors17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273237 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256608 A1W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
- Detachable-tip balloon microcatheter for embolization of vascular pathology27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248514 A1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Systems and methods for catheter balloon removal6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224846 A1Mavericks Foundation LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dilating and support apparatus with disease inhibitors and methods for use1,862US 6,450,989 B2Artemis Medical, Inc. · 2002
- Dilatation catheter1,521US 4,922,905 A1990
- Controlled deployment of a medical device1,085US 5,545,209 ATexas Petrodet, Inc. · 1996
- Expandable stents940US 5,514,154 AAdvanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · 1996
- Expandable stents and method for making same883US 5,421,955 AAdvanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · 1995