- 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 2/02 - Prostheses implantable into the body
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/02
Total number of patents in this class: 3133
10-year publication summary
211
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210
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203
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195
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189
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183
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117
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137
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81
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21
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2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
---|---|---|
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
113 |
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2600 |
70 |
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
44 |
Covidien LP | 10647 |
31 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | 3184 |
31 |
Ethicon, Inc. | 1310 |
31 |
MiMedx Group, Inc. | 207 |
31 |
Coloplast A/S | 1927 |
31 |
ViaCyte, Inc. | 183 |
28 |
The Regents of the University of California | 18943 |
25 |
Milux Holding S.A. | 175 |
25 |
The General Hospital Corporation | 4517 |
23 |
Sofradim Production | 305 |
21 |
Allergan, Inc. | 2600 |
20 |
Elutia Med LLC | 34 |
19 |
C.R. Bard, Inc. | 718 |
18 |
University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | 2912 |
18 |
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
17 |
Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | 347 |
17 |
Smith & Nephew, Inc. | 2685 |
17 |
Other owners | 2503 |