A61M 25/001
Forming the tip of a catheter
Official title: {Forming the tip of a catheter, e.g. bevelling process, join or taper}
A61M25/001 (Forming the tip of a catheter) appears on 366 US grants and 441 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 366
- Published applications
- 441
- Assignees
- 171
- Inventors
- 739
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 13 | 26 |
| 2026 | 15 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- High flexibility, kink resistant catheter shaft1 Sep 2026US 12,721,968 B2Perfuze Limited
- Method for forming a urinary catheter tip11 Aug 2026US 12,702,789 B2Coloplast A/S
- Flexible high-density mapping catheter tips and flexible ablation catheter tips with onboard high-density mapping electrodes11 Aug 2026US 12,702,825 B2St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Reinforced catheter tip via roller extrusion4 Aug 2026US 12,697,464 B2Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Catheter Tip Structure and Method of Manufacture24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284355 A1Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Sensor and cannula27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248456 A1PercuSense, Inc.
- Wire termination of steerable catheter20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241143 A1Auris Health, Inc.
- Soldering leads to pads in producing basket catheter23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207884 A1Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Stabilizing transnasal balloon sheath16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198893 A1Medtronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Triple lumen catheter365US 5,195,962 AVas-Cath Incorporated · 1993
- Preparing guiding catheter343US 4,636,346 ACordis Corporation · 1987
- Hard tip over-the-needle catheter and method of manufacturing the same306US 5,916,208 ALuther Medical Products, Inc. · 1999
- Reinforced multiple-lumen catheter and apparatus and method for making the same277US 5,374,245 A1994
- Catheter tip designs and method of manufacture266US 6,322,586 B1SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2001