A61M 25/0015
Making lateral openings in a catheter tube
Official title: {Making lateral openings in a catheter tube, e.g. holes, slits, ports, piercings of guidewire ports; Methods for processing the holes, e.g. smoothing the edges}
A61M25/0015 (Making lateral openings in a catheter tube) appears on 183 US grants and 225 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 183
- Published applications
- 225
- Assignees
- 93
- Inventors
- 386
- 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
- Cannula and infusion devices6 Oct 2026US 12,752,052 B2Unomedical A/S
- Implantable guide device29 Sep 2026US 12,746,089 B2Neurochase Technologies Limited
- Catheter hole having a flow breaking feature15 Sep 2026US 12,734,328 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Intravascular device with enhanced one-beam cut pattern12 May 2026US 12,623,049 B2Scientia Vascular, LLC
- Basket assembly with atraumatic tip electrode and methods of making thereof5 May 2026US 12,616,519 B2Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Basket assembly with atraumatic tip electrode and methods of making thereof10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263151 A1Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
- Intravascular device with enhanced one-beam cut pattern13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232953 A1Scientia Vascular, LLC
- Method for producing an ablation catheter comprising flushing passages30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216472 A1Contract Medical International GmbH
- Side-looking expandable frame and device for steering interventional devices30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216481 A1Magellan Biomedical Inc.
- Stabilizing transnasal balloon sheath16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198893 A1Medtronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- High elongation linear elastic guidewire669US 5,238,004 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1993
- Triple lumen catheter365US 5,195,962 AVas-Cath Incorporated · 1993
- Cardiac mapping catheter246US 8,103,327 B2Rhythmia Medical, Inc. · 2012
- Vascular treatment methods236US 8,690,907 B1Insera Therapeutics, Inc. · 2014
- Multiple lumen catheter187US 6,206,849 B1Vas-Cath Incorporated · 2001