A61M 25/0133
Tip steering devices
Official title: {Tip steering devices}
A61M25/0133 (Tip steering devices) appears on 3,939 US grants and 5,002 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 3,939
- Published applications
- 5,002
- Assignees
- 1,163
- Inventors
- 6,169
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2004 | 49 | 107 |
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| 2024 | 270 | 343 |
| 2025 | 218 | 290 |
| 2026 | 182 | 195 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61M 25/0147With movable mechanical means2,459
- A61M 25/0136Handles therefor1,427
- A61M 25/0138Having flexible regions as a result of weakened outer material733
- A61M 25/0158With magnetic or electrical means419
- A61M 25/0144Having flexible regions as a result of inner reinforcement means355
- A61M 2025/0161Wherein the distal tips have two or more deflection regionsIndexing code343
- A61M 25/0152With pre-shaped mechanisms310
- A61M 25/0141Having flexible regions as a result of using materials with different mechanical272
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By later US patents
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