- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61F - Filters implantable into blood vesselsprosthesesdevices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stentsorthopaedic, nursing or contraceptive devicesfomentationtreatment or protection of eyes or earsbandages, dressings or absorbent padsfirst-aid kits
- A61F 2/89 - Stents in a form characterised by wire-like elementsStents in a form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure the wire-like elements comprising two or more adjacent rings flexibly connected by separate members
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/89
Total number of patents in this class: 933
10-year publication summary
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125
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102
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87
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90
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88
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65
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55
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49
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39
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42
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3227 |
149 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2733 |
79 |
| Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. | 1114 |
42 |
| Bolton Medical, Inc. | 155 |
41 |
| Medtronic Vascular, Inc. | 1495 |
36 |
| Aortic Innovations, LLC | 46 |
31 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 1569 |
31 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1770 |
23 |
| Elixir Medical Corporation | 94 |
20 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10345 |
19 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 1146 |
17 |
| JOTEC GmbH | 72 |
16 |
| TriVascular, Inc. | 71 |
16 |
| Endologix LLC | 120 |
16 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5621 |
15 |
| Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | 407 |
15 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 66 |
14 |
| Vesper Medical, Inc. | 58 |
13 |
| Covidien LP | 10665 |
11 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9829 |
11 |
| Other owners | 318 |