A61F 2/2418
Scaffolds therefor
Official title: {Scaffolds therefor, e.g. support stents}
A61F2/2418 (Scaffolds therefor) appears on 3,926 US grants and 5,825 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 3,926
- Published applications
- 5,825
- Assignees
- 671
- Inventors
- 3,720
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 9 | 7 |
| 2002 | 12 | 28 |
| 2003 | 11 | 46 |
| 2004 | 20 | 58 |
| 2005 | 15 | 96 |
| 2006 | 16 | 88 |
| 2007 | 25 | 80 |
| 2008 | 37 | 96 |
| 2009 | 40 | 102 |
| 2010 | 58 | 122 |
| 2011 | 63 | 135 |
| 2012 | 80 | 163 |
| 2013 | 106 | 173 |
| 2014 | 121 | 281 |
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| 2017 | 233 | 365 |
| 2018 | 228 | 328 |
| 2019 | 339 | 393 |
| 2020 | 356 | 422 |
| 2021 | 305 | 399 |
| 2022 | 312 | 394 |
| 2023 | 289 | 406 |
| 2024 | 295 | 429 |
| 2025 | 290 | 418 |
| 2026 | 223 | 298 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Heart valve storage and shipping packaging6 Oct 2026US 12,751,811 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- Mitral repair and replacement devices and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,751,815 B2Mitral Valve Technologies Sarl
- Valve frame for prosthetic tricuspid valve6 Oct 2026US 12,751,817 B2Sheba Impact Ltd.
- Systems and methods for heart valve leaflet repair6 Oct 2026US 12,751,818 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Balloon expandable interventional valve stent having inwardly-narrowed wing-spreading skirt6 Oct 2026US 12,751,819 B2Nanjing Saint Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Methods and apparatus for plaque disruption8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306119 A1Elixir Medical Corporation
- Platforms For Mitral and/or Tricuspid Valve Replacement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306253 A1Majoro Cardiac Innovations, LLC
- Stent features and methods to aid with apposition and alignment to native anatomy, mitigation of paravalvular leak and functional efficiency of prosthetic heart valve8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306254 A14C Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Atrioventricular Valve Modification Systems, Devices, and Methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306255 A1Evalve, Inc.
- Prosthetic valves with skirt support features8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306256 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Valve prothesis for implantation in the body and a catheter for implanting such valve prothesis2,468US 5,411,552 A1995
- Artificial heart valve and method and device for implanting the same2,287US 5,855,601 AThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · 1999
- Percutaneous placement valve stent2,220US 5,957,949 AWorld Medical Manufacturing Corporation · 1999
- Endoluminal cardiac and venous valve prostheses and methods of manufacture and delivery thereof2,213US 6,458,153 B1ABPS Venture One, Ltd. · 2002
- Implantable prosthetic valve1,995US 6,730,118 B2Percutaneous Valve Technologies, Inc. · 2004