A61F 2/2415
Manufacturing methods
Official title: {Manufacturing methods}
A61F2/2415 (Manufacturing methods) appears on 916 US grants and 1,275 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 916
- Published applications
- 1,275
- Assignees
- 325
- Inventors
- 1,485
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 12 | 6 |
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| 2003 | 14 | 24 |
| 2004 | 9 | 26 |
| 2005 | 12 | 26 |
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| 2007 | 6 | 12 |
| 2008 | 18 | 26 |
| 2009 | 8 | 22 |
| 2010 | 13 | 19 |
| 2011 | 20 | 36 |
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| 2019 | 71 | 95 |
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| 2021 | 58 | 80 |
| 2022 | 60 | 85 |
| 2023 | 50 | 76 |
| 2024 | 62 | 81 |
| 2025 | 57 | 89 |
| 2026 | 48 | 67 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Heart valve manufacturing devices and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,751,816 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Diametric expansion features for prosthetic valves6 Oct 2026US 12,751,820 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Tapered heart valve covering6 Oct 2026US 12,751,822 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,110 B2V-Wave Ltd.
- Reinforced heart valve leaflets29 Sep 2026US 12,746,116 B2Xeltis AG
- Systems and methods for endoluminal valve creation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306131 A1InterVene, Inc.
- Coated Materials for Heart Valve Applications and Methods of Making Same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294621 A1St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Medical implant having outer skirt with 3d structure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294622 A1BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
- Mandrel for prosthetic heart valve implant apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283788 A1Medtronic, Inc.
- Transcatheter valve having reduced seam exposure24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283789 A1Medtronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Implantable prosthetic valve1,995US 6,730,118 B2Percutaneous Valve Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Implantable prosthetic valve1,862US 6,893,460 B2Percutaneous Valve Technologies, Inc. · 2005
- Value prosthesis for implantation in body channels1,825US 6,908,481 B2Edwards Lifesciences PVT, Inc. · 2005
- Methods of implanting a prosthetic heart valve within a native heart valve1,503US 7,585,321 B2Edwards Lifesciences PVT, Inc. · 2009
- Nonstented heart valves with formed in situ support1,449US 7,534,259 B2Direct Flow Medical, Inc. · 2009