B29L 2031/7543
Balloon catheters
Official title: {Balloon catheters}
B29L2031/7543 (Balloon catheters) appears on 164 US grants and 235 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29L- Granted patents
- 164
- Published applications
- 235
- Assignees
- 63
- Inventors
- 302
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 | 6 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 | 13 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12 |
| 2014 | 10 | 18 |
| 2015 | 7 | 23 |
| 2016 | 10 | 18 |
| 2017 | 13 | 18 |
| 2018 | 15 | 24 |
| 2019 | 16 | 8 |
| 2020 | 13 | 18 |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 | 14 |
| 2023 | 12 | 9 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 2026 | 4 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Bifurcated dual-balloon catheter system for bifurcated vessels6 Oct 2026US 12,751,843 B2
- Balloon expanded polymer stent9 Jun 2026US 12,648,865 B2Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
- Serration balloon7 Apr 2026US 12,594,406 B2Cagent Vascular, Inc.
- Inflatable medical devices24 Mar 2026US 12,583,192 B2Loma Vista Medical, Inc.
- Methods of manufacturing nested balloons utilizing pressurized constrained annealing11 Nov 2025US 12,465,731 B2Confluent Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Balloon expandable polymer stent17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272686 A1Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
- Serration balloon20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241150 A1Cagent Vascular, Inc.
- Methods of manufacturing nested balloons utilizing pressurized constrained annealing30 Apr 2026US 2026/0115432 A1Confluent Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Heat shrink tubing-free catheter connections26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054031 A1BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
- Balloon for balloon catheter and balloon catheter including same19 Feb 2026US 2026/0047861 A1Kaneka Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Laser bonding of angioplasty balloon catheters87US 5,501,759 ASchneider (USA) Inc. · 1996
- Medical balloon81US 6,746,425 B1Futuremed Interventional, Inc. · 2004
- Laser bonding of angioplasty balloon catheters78US 5,267,959 ASchneider GmbH & Co. KG · 1993
- Balloon catheter and method of mounting same78US 7,892,201 B1Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. · 2011
- Tube-in-tube balloon67US 8,168,275 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · 2012