- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61F - Filters implantable into blood vessels; prostheses; devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents; orthopaedic, nursing or contraceptive devices; fomentation; treatment or protection of eyes or ears; bandages, dressings or absorbent pads; first-aid kits
- A61F 2/91 - Stents in a form characterised by wire-like elements; Stents in a form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure made from perforated sheets or tubes, e.g. perforated by laser cuts or etched holes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/91
Total number of patents in this class: 864
10-year publication summary
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77
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71
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87
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99
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80
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69
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53
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31
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24
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9
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
51 |
| Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. | 1117 |
48 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
45 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
37 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
33 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 67 |
23 |
| Medtronic Vascular, Inc. | 1529 |
19 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1765 |
18 |
| Vactronix Scientific, LLC | 91 |
16 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2600 |
15 |
| Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG | 126 |
13 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
10 |
| Vesper Medical, Inc. | 63 |
10 |
| MicroVention, Inc. | 555 |
9 |
| Elixir Medical Corporation | 86 |
9 |
| V-wave Ltd. | 88 |
9 |
| Acandis GmbH & Co. KG | 81 |
8 |
| BIOTRONIK AG | 387 |
8 |
| Monarch Biosciences, Inc. | 27 |
8 |
| Medtronic Ventor Technologies Ltd. | 61 |
7 |
| Other owners | 468 |