- 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 2/97 - Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts having an outer sleeve the outer sleeve being splittable
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/97
Total number of patents in this class: 382
10-year publication summary
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33
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37
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31
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32
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2695 |
120 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3190 |
31 |
| Covidien LP | 10666 |
22 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4802 |
14 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10945 |
11 |
| Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG | 109 |
11 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1773 |
11 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 1586 |
10 |
| Symetis SA | 66 |
9 |
| Vascutek Limited | 102 |
9 |
| Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. | 1095 |
7 |
| Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC | 176 |
7 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1627 |
5 |
| Advanced Bifurcation Systems, Inc. | 85 |
5 |
| Endo GI Medical Ltd. | 11 |
5 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9725 |
4 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5733 |
4 |
| Bolton Medical, Inc. | 164 |
4 |
| Evalve, Inc. | 222 |
3 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 1179 |
3 |
| Other owners | 87 |