- 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 2/962 - Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts having an outer sleeve
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/962
Total number of patents in this class: 712
10-year publication summary
73
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89
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71
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101
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57
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62
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76
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50
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44
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13
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2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
---|---|---|
Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
86 |
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2600 |
64 |
Covidien LP | 10647 |
39 |
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
37 |
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
35 |
Aortic Innovations, LLC | 43 |
29 |
Intact Vascular, Inc. | 67 |
18 |
Medtronic Vascular, Inc. | 1529 |
17 |
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1351 |
17 |
Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
16 |
Bolton Medical, Inc. | 159 |
12 |
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
11 |
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 1591 |
11 |
Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 981 |
10 |
BIOTRONIK AG | 387 |
9 |
C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1765 |
8 |
Endospan Ltd. | 74 |
8 |
Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG | 126 |
7 |
Neovasc Tiara Inc. | 83 |
7 |
Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 GmbH | 158 |
6 |
Other owners | 265 |