- 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 2/88 - Stents in a form characterised by wire-like elements; Stents in a form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure the wire-like elements formed as helical or spiral coils
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/88
Total number of patents in this class: 704
10-year publication summary
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56
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67
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88
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82
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86
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65
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59
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37
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39
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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
|
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
71 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
47 |
| Medtronic Vascular, Inc. | 1529 |
43 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2600 |
38 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
24 |
| MicroVention, Inc. | 555 |
21 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 981 |
21 |
| Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG | 126 |
13 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
12 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 67 |
12 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1765 |
11 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
11 |
| PENTAS Inc. | 17 |
10 |
| Zenflow, Inc. | 29 |
8 |
| Apreo Health, Inc. (f/k/a Foundry Therapeutics 2, Inc.) | 8 |
8 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
7 |
| Cardinal Health 529, LLC | 306 |
7 |
| Endologix LLC | 124 |
7 |
| Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 GmbH | 158 |
6 |
| Medinol Ltd. | 61 |
6 |
| Other owners | 321 |