A61M 25/0017
Catheters: specially adapted for long-term hygiene care
Official title: {specially adapted for long-term hygiene care, e.g. urethral or indwelling catheters to prevent infections}
A61M25/0017 (Catheters: specially adapted for long-term hygiene care) appears on 1,308 US grants and 1,813 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Catheter6 Oct 2026US 12,752,074 B2Nowwell Flow Technology AS
- Urinary catheter29 Sep 2026US 12,746,364 B2The University of Toledo
- Balloon blocker for occlusion and suction29 Sep 2026US 12,746,382 B2C. R. Bard, Inc.
- Labeling and packaging system and methods22 Sep 2026US 12,741,783 B2C. R. Bard, Inc.
- Catheter system with remote instrument delivery15 Sep 2026US 12,734,337 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Catheter Device for Odour-Reducing Delivery and/or Discharge of Substances to/from the Human or Animal Body1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294668 A1Advanced Medical Balloons GmbH
- Urinary catheter assembly with guidance device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295210 A1Hollister Incorporated
- Indwelling catheter assembly and method for manufacturing inner needle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295211 A1Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Low trauma urinary catheter eyelets and methods for making1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295214 A1Hollister Incorporated
- Fluid collection systems and methods for collecting fluids24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283522 A1Patient Inventions, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sterility barriers for insertion of non-sterile apparatus into catheters or other medical devices1,671US 6,589,164 B1TransVascular, Inc. · 2003
- Condom catheter, a urethral catheter for the prevention of ascending infections1,172US 4,878,901 A1989
- Drainage catheter system1,142US 6,007,521 A1999
- Rotate-to-advance catheterization system1,027US 9,907,456 B2Olympus Corporation · 2018
- Hydrodynamic clot flushing457US 4,954,129 AAbbott Laboratories · 1990