A61M 2025/1086
Having a special balloon surface topography
Official title: {having a special balloon surface topography, e.g. pores, protuberances, spikes or grooves}
A61M2025/1086 (Having a special balloon surface topography) appears on 935 US grants and 1,150 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 935
- Published applications
- 1,150
- Assignees
- 336
- Inventors
- 1,504
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Medical devices for delivering one or more agents and methods of use and manufacture24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284267 A1Encompass Vascular, Inc.
- Scoring balloon catheter17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273241 A1DK Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
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