A61F 2/2427
Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation
Official title: {Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation}
A61F2/2427 (Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation) appears on 4,264 US grants and 6,020 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 4,264
- Published applications
- 6,020
- Assignees
- 716
- Inventors
- 4,009
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 8 | 0 |
| 1998 | 37 | 0 |
| 1999 | 29 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 24 | 18 |
| 2002 | 24 | 44 |
| 2003 | 25 | 31 |
| 2004 | 25 | 56 |
| 2005 | 20 | 84 |
| 2006 | 25 | 73 |
| 2007 | 15 | 73 |
| 2008 | 30 | 83 |
| 2009 | 26 | 89 |
| 2010 | 52 | 104 |
| 2011 | 45 | 137 |
| 2012 | 78 | 165 |
| 2013 | 110 | 208 |
| 2014 | 130 | 296 |
| 2015 | 157 | 224 |
| 2016 | 232 | 282 |
| 2017 | 220 | 360 |
| 2018 | 233 | 381 |
| 2019 | 363 | 456 |
| 2020 | 396 | 465 |
| 2021 | 349 | 429 |
| 2022 | 335 | 389 |
| 2023 | 336 | 431 |
| 2024 | 330 | 439 |
| 2025 | 323 | 417 |
| 2026 | 229 | 286 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Heart valve manufacturing devices and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,751,816 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- 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.
- Replacement heart valve system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,821 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- 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
- Articulating endoscopic implant rotator surgical apparatus and method for using same2,207US 6,162,208 AGenzyme Corporation · 2000