- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61M - Devices for introducing media into, or onto, the bodydevices for transducing body media or for taking media from the bodydevices for producing or ending sleep or stupor
- A61M 60/178 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart drawing blood from a ventricle and returning the blood to the arterial system via a cannula external to the ventricle, e.g. left or right ventricular assist devices
Patent holdings for IPC class A61M 60/178
Total number of patents in this class: 602
10-year publication summary
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34
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108
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83
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92
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104
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123
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48
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Tc1 LLC | 627 |
95 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 11151 |
47 |
| Kardion GmbH | 184 |
42 |
| Berlin Heart GmbH | 198 |
29 |
| ABIOMED, Inc. | 896 |
27 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9792 |
19 |
| Magenta Medical Ltd. | 198 |
19 |
| CorWave SA | 42 |
18 |
| HeartWare, Inc. | 184 |
17 |
| Abiomed Europe GmbH | 305 |
16 |
| Shenzhen Core Medical Technology Co.,Ltd. | 81 |
11 |
| magAssist Co., Ltd. | 57 |
11 |
| Fineheart | 73 |
10 |
| Forqaly Medical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | 38 |
9 |
| 3R Life Sciences Corporation | 28 |
7 |
| BiVACOR Inc. | 18 |
6 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2720 |
5 |
| FBR Medical, Inc. | 24 |
5 |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate | 2804 |
5 |
| Scandinavian Real Heart AB | 21 |
5 |
| Other owners | 199 |