A61M 5/44
Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or
Official title: having means for cooling or heating the devices or media
A61M5/44 (Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or) appears on 900 US grants and 1,037 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 900
- Published applications
- 1,037
- Assignees
- 439
- Inventors
- 1,649
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 9 | 0 |
| 1993 | 11 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 8 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 11 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 11 |
| 2002 | 22 | 29 |
| 2003 | 24 | 23 |
| 2004 | 21 | 30 |
| 2005 | 13 | 24 |
| 2006 | 12 | 26 |
| 2007 | 14 | 56 |
| 2008 | 11 | 60 |
| 2009 | 15 | 40 |
| 2010 | 38 | 40 |
| 2011 | 33 | 54 |
| 2012 | 36 | 31 |
| 2013 | 35 | 44 |
| 2014 | 40 | 45 |
| 2015 | 27 | 41 |
| 2016 | 35 | 31 |
| 2017 | 33 | 44 |
| 2018 | 30 | 51 |
| 2019 | 35 | 41 |
| 2020 | 34 | 58 |
| 2021 | 32 | 54 |
| 2022 | 40 | 38 |
| 2023 | 44 | 44 |
| 2024 | 38 | 46 |
| 2025 | 36 | 54 |
| 2026 | 18 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Control of fluid temperature in a dialysis system22 Sep 2026US 12,741,070 B2Gambro Lundia AB
- Apparatus for warming a medical device prior to use15 Sep 2026US 12,734,311 B2
- Thawing device for thawing a medium, and a method for thawing a medium8 Sep 2026US 12,728,423 B2Agentur Leven GmbH
- Drug delivery device configured for pain reduction during injection18 Aug 2026US 12,708,722 B2Eli Lilly and Company
- Method of providing frozen composition and device therefor11 Aug 2026US 12,702,806 B2RecensMedical, Inc.
- System, method, and apparatus for mitigating the rise of infusion-induced hypothermia8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306755 A1Tier One Systems LLC
- A method of establishing a flow delivery rate of a medicament delivery device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295155 A1Shl Medical AG
- Devices, methods and systems for wireless control of medical devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284300 A1
- Medical fluid transfer and injection apparatus and method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273187 A1Enable Injections, Inc.
- Infusion system with balloon ablation and methods of using same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248547 A1PAVmed Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for delivering thermally sensitive and reverse-thermal gelation materials1,111US 6,488,659 B1BioCardia, Inc. · 2002
- Methods and apparatus for thermally-induced renal neuromodulation662US 7,617,005 B2Ardian, Inc. · 2009
- Methods and apparatus for thermally-induced renal neuromodulation638US 7,717,948 B2Ardian, Inc. · 2010
- Medical fluid pump572US 6,814,547 B2Baxter Healthcare S. A. · 2004
- Wound treatment apparatus and method537US 8,529,548 B2Smith & Nephew, Inc. · 2013