A61M 25/09041
Mechanisms for insertion of guide wires
Official title: {Mechanisms for insertion of guide wires}
A61M25/09041 (Mechanisms for insertion of guide wires) appears on 1,095 US grants and 1,472 published applications in this corpus.
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- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for the control of multiple degrees-of-freedom bending and the bending length of a coaxially aligned robotically steerable guidewire6 Oct 2026US 12,752,086 B2Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- System with removable hubs for manual and robotic procedure29 Sep 2026US 12,746,077 B2Imperative Care, Inc.
- Guide wire activation mechanism and proximal actuation mechanism29 Sep 2026US 12,746,369 B2Rapid Medical Ltd.
- Catheter placement device for urethral applications29 Sep 2026US 12,746,371 B2
- Slave-end apparatus for interventional robot15 Sep 2026US 12,734,002 B2Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Biomedical Robot Co., Ltd.
- Device for automatically inserting and manipulating a medical tool into and within a bodily lumen8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305918 A1Microbot Medical Ltd.
- Robotic manipulation of a surgical tool handle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305919 A1Microbot Medical Ltd.
- Device for automatically threading guide wire into valve and fully-automatic radiography robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306197 A1Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Biomedical Robot Co., Ltd.
- Retractable Insertion Tubes for Medical Devices8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306790 A1
- Intracardiac delivery catheter and method of use1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294395 A1TargetCath, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic catheter system1,662US 7,972,298 B2Hansen Medical, Inc. · 2011
- Guidewire exchange systems to treat spinal stenosis1,451US 8,257,356 B2Baxano, Inc. · 2012
- Access and tissue modification systems and methods1,072US 8,568,416 B2Baxano Surgical, Inc. · 2013
- Dilation catheter assembly with rapid change components636US 10,625,062 B2Acclarent, Inc. · 2020
- Guidewire and catheter with rotating and reciprocating symmetrical or asymmetrical distal tip372US 6,258,052 B1LuMend, Inc. · 2001