- 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 2/966 - Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts having an outer sleeve with relative longitudinal movement between outer sleeve and prosthesis, e.g. using a push rod
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/966
Total number of patents in this class: 2325
10-year publication summary
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224
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224
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252
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239
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204
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210
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182
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142
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159
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3323 |
228 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 9524 |
179 |
| Covidien LP | 10645 |
117 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2686 |
111 |
| Medtronic Vascular, Inc. | 1509 |
94 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4472 |
74 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5398 |
60 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9837 |
54 |
| Bolton Medical, Inc. | 157 |
51 |
| Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG | 125 |
45 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 67 |
43 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1422 |
41 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1768 |
36 |
| MicroVention, Inc. | 601 |
33 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13275 |
32 |
| Endologix LLC | 121 |
28 |
| Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. | 1112 |
27 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 1119 |
27 |
| JC Medical, Inc. | 58 |
25 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2820 |
23 |
| Other owners | 997 |